Rural Architecture Heritage Preservation and Revival:
Necessity and Revival Solutions
Dr. Sartipipour, Mohsen
The study of civilization history of Iran terrain has shown the myriads of year's
antiquity and primeval root and its backgrounds have found until several years ago.
The first Iran civilization symbol has reached about six thousands years AC, which
the human being reside on mountains and caves that gradually have accessed to
fertile east, center and west fields. The civilization vestiges and human settlements
have firmed on Najd plains of Iran such as sokhteh city in Sistan (third and fourth
millennium AC), Hesar hill in Damghan (fifth millennium AC( Silk of Kashan,
Jiroft and Marvdasht environs and shosh and Hafttappeh. The remainder arts have
shown the sign of rural life in these areas. The areas as Ganje dareh, Sarabasiyab in
Kermanshah, Alikesh in Dehloran, Goran in helilan and Chogabenot in Khozestan
have numbered the most oldest rural epicenter of Iran. According to these
evidences, the villages could be considered the first settlements which the Iranian
civilization formation has began from there and many of current cities that they and
manifestation of our civilization epitome, have been their originator. The
identification and preservation of precious heritage of rural architecture are
considers a kind of country's historical national assets protection, which help us to
flow the stable principles remainder of past on the new structure through
discovering of mysteries and secrets, marks and symbols that have hidden on them
and preserve the architectural authenticity and identification of rural settlements
.This discussion has been studied and appraised the importance of these arts, their
cognition , preservation and revival solution.
Keywords: cultural heritage, architecture, village, preservation and revival, rural
development.