L'architecture des palais achéménides : évolution technique et aménagement de l'espace architectural

Were the buildings of Persepolis and Pasargadae the ultimate examples of a continuous line of established Achaemenid building methods in which the architectural development was linked to the evolution of forms, layouts and techniques? Till now it has been difficult to answer this because of the lack of sufficient material information for that period. The hazardous circumstances of the archaeological discoveries give us a fragmentary documentation that we have to take into account. On the other hand, in the Zagros region, archaeological excavations have unearthed some major buildings dating from the first half of the first millennium BC (Iron Age), for example at the sites of Hasanlu and Godin Teppeh. Their space architectural organization could be considered as possible forerunners of the one of the monuments of the Achaemenid era, for example their great columned halls of Pasargadae that where built before the construction of the Apadana. Only an analysis of the inner function and circulations in the different buildings could bring some answers to this dramatically unsolved question and prove that the only evolution taken by the architecture is the course toward the most organized architectural space, like the Apadana of Persepolis can display