Architecture and Literature: Links and Similarities (An Outlook Over Nasir Khosrow’s Safarnameh)
Amir Reza Karimi Azeri1 , Ferya Shirchi2 * and Sobhan Safdari Tamrin3
1
Department of Architecture,
Faculty of Art and Architecture, Guilan University,
Rasht,
Iran
2
Department of Architecture,
Deylaman Non-profit Institution,
Lahijan,
Iran
3
Department of Architecture,
Islamic Azad University,
Chaloos,
Iran
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.138
Architecture is a social form of art while literature is verbal. Reflecting on the Iranian literature would form the foundations for understanding of Iranian architecture. One of the oldest travel literatures written in Farsi, Nasir Khosrow’s Safarnameh, is considered to be a valuable source of information on buildings, architecture, history and geography. His account of urban architecture and the expressions of buildings is in fact so comprehensive that one can depict the entities or draw them by reading the travelogue alone. The primary purpose of this article is to find a junction at which concepts of literature and architecture converge, and to extract mutual concepts of literature and architecture. The method employed is a descriptive one, grounded in historical texts in general, and the Safarnameh in particular. The result would be to found a connection between architecture and literature, and to alter of these forms to one another in order to reach a related sense and conception, and to comprehend the thoughts underlying works of architecture contemporary with the Safarnameh.
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Azari A. R. K, Shirchi F, Tamrin S. S. Architecture and Literature: Links and Similarities (An Outlook Over Nasir Khosrow’s Safarnameh). Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.138
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