Geography and Regional Planning

Geography and Regional Planning

Collective construction of the concept of architectural eclecticism at geographical scales with emphasis on actor-network theory

Authors
Department of Architecture,Ha.c.,Islamic Azad University,Hamedan,Iran.
10.22034/jgeoq.2026.564990.4383
Abstract
The development of society has increased the semantic load of various professional concepts and led to ambiguity in their interpretation. With the increasing comprehensiveness of the exchange of human actions, this uncertainty in interpretation has become a common phenomenon in various fields. In the field of architecture, the architect's excessive emphasis on experience and intuitive creativity has led to a judgment based on his personal experience in dealing with ambiguous concepts. In addition, the logical readability of the "black box" objectives in the professional field has become difficult for other specialized disciplines and the general public. "Eclecticism" is a divisive architectural concept that has emerged from cultural exchange. The aim of this research is to develop a tool that can, in line with the Sixth National Development Plan, produce science (by developing a sociological research approach in the field of architecture to transform complex and ambiguous concepts into simple ones) that provides a new, clear, comprehensive, and transdisciplinary look at the characteristics of architectural eclecticism in order to answer these two research questions: 1) How can a method be developed that can express complex architectural concepts clearly and comprehensively? 2) How is the contemporary interpretation of eclecticism related to the social development of societies? The research hypothesis is that eclectic architecture has not disappeared, but has continued as an abstract and non-objective expression, and with the increase in the degree of social development, tangible and explicit eclectic characteristics move towards more implicit and abstract ones.
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