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Architectural features, such as the forms, designs, and decorations of buildings, are major attractions for all people around world. Although a few thousand years ago, very few individuals were able to travel to other nations, at the present a majority of populations are able to travel to other countries to get knowledge about other cultures, other peoples, and other architectural features. Today, millions of people travel to other countries just to see how peoples, foods, living environments, and forms and designs of buildings in other countries look like. The present series is a contribution to make available for all people around the world to see in pictures the architectural features ( i. e., forms, designs, and decorations of buildings) in selected countries. It is a comparative, pictorial introduction of architectural features in six selected countries to show the talents, skills, and masterships of builders in creation of architectural forms and designs in the selected countries. More specifically, there are two main architectural styles in Europe (--as well as in mountainous countries such as Armenia and Georgia, ) and in Iran. While a stone architecture is common in Europe and in the mountainous countries, a clay architecture is used in Iran. A comparative display of the two styles, the stone vs. clay architecture, therefore, is the main theme of the series titled: A Comparative Display Of Art And Architecture. The first volume of this series is about architectural styles in Armenia and Iran. Using a functional-equivalency approach, the series focuses on architectural features from Europe and mountainous countries and Iran that, while structurally are different, functionally are similar or have similarity with each other. For example, both a church and a mosque are religious buildings with similar functions but with different structures. Although there are numerous published books about art and architecture in Europe or in Iran separately, but none makes a comparative introduction using a functional- equivalency approach. The present series, therefore, should be regarded as the first original work that seeks to present a comparative, pictorial introduction of two different architectural styles, stone vs. clay architectural styles, by displaying their main features side by side. For example, the illustrations are grouped into several categories (Introduction) [ i. e, 1) Historic or Heritage Buildings; 2) Stone (Khachkar) vs. Brick or Tile decorations; and 3) Religious Buildings: Churches vs. Jam'a mosques]. (Otherwise, assuming that the images collected and presented in this volume are also presented randomly in some other books about art and architecture in Armenia or in Iran, an estimated 50 to 100 books on the subjects of art and architecture in either Armenia or Iran should be browsed over, here or there, to find similar images collected in this volume.) Volume I of this series compares architectural features in Armenia (a country in the Caucasian region) to similar, clay architectural features in historic cities of Iran. The work is expected to make available for the readers a quick and an easy comparative views of the architectural forms and designs from Armenia as compared to their similar, clay architectural features in historic cities of Iran.

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