From a Building to an Architectural Artifact: The impact of Architect’s Worldview on the Status of an Architectural Artifact

Abstract

Architecture is to design a space by human-architect for human-user; hence in addition to the physical and environmental factors, architect’s worldview is deemed to be as an initiative and a directing factor for the architectural designing process which is of high significance. An architect’s perception of human and human needs has a great impact on design process and the way designing is directed, it also architect’s worldview determines the domains from which the required data should be obtained and for which purpose they should be processed. The present study is aimed at exploring the issue of how the status of an architectural product as the tangible result of the designing process might be influenced by the architect’s worldview. Hence, by examining the relations between the existential fields of architecture and the existential realms of human beings, which is the resultant of the architect's worldview, a range of products starting from buildings and continuing to architectural products are investigated. Based on the nature of issues studied in this paper, a descriptive-analytical research method and deductive approach were used and the related data were collected through library method.