Typo-morphology of Transformation: Reading typo-morphological changes in Tehran during ‘Modern’ and contemporary era for further prescriptions

Abstract

[EN] Traditionally typo-morphology deals with reading cities, chiefly historical cities, to retrieve legible urbanism after Modernism changes. During Modernism period and after that new types of forms and new kinds of functions inserted to urban fabrics all over the world which this process can be seen as a mutation of urban form everywhere. Disadvantages resulted from Some of these forms are the main reasons which morphological studies turned his head to historic cities to find traditional approaches which can answer better the functions responded by these new forms. But some of them includes functions never exist before. This mutation happened once again during the globalization process. Globalization gave birth to new types of forms and new kinds of function. Typo-morphology based on a deep background of concepts and methods found many ways to study historic urban forms. This article argues using typo-morphological methods for understanding and taxonomy of new forms can lead us to knowledge for how to bolter these new forms for further exploitation. In this regard the notion of type in classical studies of typomorphology, philosophical interpretations of 20th century and methodologies developed by different schools of typo-morphology is reread. Based on such scrutiny judging all these forms can be possible and give some legitimacy to stay in or abandoned from the repertoire of urban types. The article ends with a proposal for a methodical exploration of classical notions of morphology to study the mutation process happened after modernistic changes and the new round of changes known as globalization.