Categorization/classification makes unique problems unsolvable and complicated.

The mental space of an immigrant is not totally different from the space of destination.

The problem with contemporary knowledge lies in its idea based on progress.

Architecture and the city are the substance of the locality of human presence, not the space of human presence.

The issue of relocation of the capital of Iran is totally different from that of relocation of the city of Tehran.

Every space or trend is perceived in relation to the mental space of the individual (presence). This relation would [only] be that of space or trend, and not all the current issues within it.

Categorizations/classifications such as macro-city are only of use in public education rather than being terms [used] in knowledge.

The urban space of Tehran has documented the contemporary Iranian problems.

A heterogeneous space is not copyable or multipliable… it is unique, wholly and constituently.

Except for earthquake, all other problems of Tehran, which have stirred up different arguments on the relocation of the capital, have been resolvable through urban management and adjustment/improvement of functional zoning in Tehran and in the country as a whole.

To be unique is a risk.

Today, the space of ‘presence’ has a lot of variable constituents. One of them is substance. It is with the understanding of that space that the architect creates architecture.

The current architectural knowledge in Iran encompasses a sketchy understanding of the issues related to complexity of mental spaces.

Heterogeneous space is based on all the constituents in a variable condition.

Capital is a governmental issue; Tehran is an issue related to Tehran citizens.

Lack of dominant trends in particular conditions can be a context for the growth of alternative spaces.

In Iran, the urban space consists of a whole set of spaces related to people and does not relate to leading dominant trends such as knowledge of capital management or even finding solutions for the problems.

Homogeneous cities do not satisfy people.

Every problem is unique and can only be studied through its related unique knowledge.

In Iran, due to the heterogeneous mental spaces, movements have been individual (and sometimes even unique) and thus no trend appears there. The art is also entirely individual and does not turn into collective trends.

Personal architectural projects increasingly lead the substance of the city towards heterogeneity.

Relocation of the capital from the earthquake-related viewpoint relates to the life security of the people working in the central departments of the three forces. [legislative, executive and judicial]

Contemporary knowledge in the world has developed a homogeneous space.

What the Iranian citizen wants from the city and architecture seems odd and unreasonable to the architects and vice versa. Neither one of them believes in the other.

The knowledge of an expert/specialist is about similar and classified issues.

If in studying human problems we convert/change them into constituents// reducing them to constituents, the problems themselves would not be understood; they would be missed.

There are as many different opinions about an architectural project as there are architects and ; and this is understandable. That sort of knowledge is not teachable.

The inclination of living in the capital changed Tehran from a village to a very large city within 200 years. Numerous street layouts in all of the old Iranian textures …

Differences could be factors for relation.

It is all about the contemporary space, not the contemporary architecture and urban development.

The space in Iran is not clear; it does not have a dominant trend or trends.

Man’s new understanding, achieved after experiencing different kinds of structures, has helped and will help him in transition from collective structures to individual ones.

Iran has neither been able to accept the dominant trends, nor been able to find solutions to its problems. This has resulted in an accumulation of cultural, social, economical, … problems.

In some fields, man has become so complex that knowledge has suffered debility or malfunction. On the other hand, in some fields, knowledge has progressed to an extent that man cannot find himself in it.

Tehran is a heterogeneous city in the literal sense of the word. It has not been developed through urban knowledge.

In recent centuries, emergence of a dominant trend in knowledge has changed knowledge itself into a different phenomenon.

There are certain issues that have caused the substance of the city not to be based on current urban knowledge and architecture: That knowledge has not been seriously the concern of even the experts in this country. Also people have not welcomed it, rather, they have sometimes prevented its implementation.

To live in a heterogeneous society is a risk.

Western space moves according to the dominant trend of progress.

In multiplication, transfer, and teaching in a public manner, Knowledge of architecture has inevitably lost its unique properties and has become a set of patterns and formulas.

Abstraction has a strong presence in the mental space of the people and in the space of the country; it is not developed by the artist.

Presence in the global domain has a direct relation with uniqueness.

One reason for the problems of non-western countries remaining unsolved is that they try to perceive the problems and seek its solutions in a western style.

The alternative space exists in the collective unconscious of the world.

The present issue of the world is a space in which everybody can attend.

One of the reasons why phony homebuilders have been successful in Tehran is that they have been able to establish a close contact with the mental space of the inhabitants.

Based on a dominant trend (knowledge, progress and development), western space needs programs, systems, etc, and essentially, a homogeneous trend. Whatever relates to it and is absorbed in it is defined in that structure.

In Iran, there has occurred a special and complex understanding, but no trend other than the general trend of life.

In Iran, the majority are concerned with the un-Orientalized/un-easternized part of the Oriental/eastern aspect of Iranians or the un-westernized part of their western aspect. They consider this dichotomy a problem or crisis. The main issue is not orientalization/easternization or westernization or dichotomy of people. Nor is it a problem or crisis. It is a different situation with a long fetal (what?,ed.) period.

In Iran, because of the huge diversity of habitats, different spaces with different cultures and people have come into existence within small distances from each other. Different settled or migrating tribes, rich natural resources and contact with other cultures and customs have increased the differences and have resulted in the absence of dialogue and internal relation and a lack of development of a cohesive trend or trends (with the exception of central governments). Small communities, having their own problems and difficulties, could not develop any trends.