Starting from the Age of Enlightenment, and throughout 19th and 20th centuries, philosophical movement had reformed the face of life in Western World. One of the fields that remarkably reflected these changes was architecture. A study of the development of philosophical thinking of this era would hence help understanding the origins and inspirations that led architectural development in this period.
It is argued here that as long as fields like philosophy and criticism barely have any weight in architectural education in our Arab World, the architecture in this region will always lack meaning and value. The paper suggests that engraving some connections with philosophical and intellectual trends might be helpful for developing an architecture that reflects a special character and meaning in this region