Theory as (New) Criteria of Action (Foreword)

The publication, Reviewing Design Process Theories of Prof. Mahmud Rezaei presents a theoretical linked construction capable of building a story line that defends the importance of a new thinking construction and “grammatical” approach in front of the exaltation of the notion of sacred histor- ical episodes of our architectural and urban discipline that we have witnessed in the past decades. It unfolds the connection in between a new structure of though and conception with a certain re-combination of the continuous and dis-continuous concepts in architecture, particularly in the case of the problem of the language and typological periods. Moreover, the theoretical approach responds to a new operative logic which underlies the new culture of our time and that could be recognized in several historic and contemporaneous experiences that are transversally connected with a multi-layered reading of the reality.