aDepartment of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences and GIS, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: malekis@scu.ac.ir
bDepartment of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences and GIS, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: mavedate@yahoo.com
cIlam University. E-mail: ahmadi-architecture@gmail.com
dYazd University. E-mail: zeshkezare@yahoo.com
eDepartment of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences and GIS, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: parvarm@yahoo.com
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Online published on 9 August, 2013.
Sustainable development and architecture stay together. This sustainable architecture necessarily proposes creation of architecture.As a massivesystem, architecture has undertaken an important task, because 50% of world energy has been spent in this field and human spend 90–80% of their time in the buildings. In line with this issue, present study with developmental-applied nature and descriptive-analytical research method has been started by two questions: a) whether there has been a sustainable architecture in the past or not? b) How do buildings act in providing humans welfare and ecological relationship with the environment? The results show that sustainable architecture was in harmonization with its circumstance in the past and what these days has been manifested in the environment is a kind of discrete encounter and it is separate from the nature. In today's modern society we can offer such a sustainable architecture that people can meet all their needs and takes step along with sustainable development and architecture.
Sustainable Architecture and Development, Traditional and Modern Society, Energy
