الفهرس 
Defining The meaning of Paradigm
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Abstract
This thesis introduces a novel approach to investigate contemporary paradigms and different styles of architectural practices in the early 21st century, seen as isolated islands of practices. Multiple existing languages of architecture in the same cultural context is a new phenomenon causes a state of conflict and uncertainty in the architectural community and current criticism, These random debates opened the door for public panels of discussions and articles released with queries of the failure reasons of criticism to reach a mature philosophical state.
The research investigates the philosophy of paradigms of architectural practices as well as contemporary iconic practices of the age to recognize their embedded nature, different dimensions, how they are identified and interpreted to stand on a theoretical-concrete base that can criticize these different practices.
This approach aims at identifying a meta-theory of interpretation to criticize different architectural trajectories; exploring their ideologies, beliefs, values, design conceptions and final morphology with different styles. Besides, it extracts a critical model of contemporary architectural paradigms and influences with regard to the contemporary broader context.
Nevertheless, the research identifies a new pattern of architecture “I-praxis” and its characteristics announce a paradigm-shift from the previous industrial-architectural paradigm. This contributes to better understanding of the real drivers of contemporary practices, and their visible qualities through visual attributes beyond the obsolete visual and functional qualities.