Effective Areas and Solutions for Sustainability Education Development in Iranian Architecture Universities

Today, given the rapid population growth, development of sciences, new changes in all aspects of human life, and ultimately, the occurrence of unfavorable conditions for the human environment, sus tainable development has attracted considerable attention as one of the mos t critical and common issues at the international level. Among the s trategies to achieve sus tainable development, education is the mos t effective mechanism of society to deal with the century's bigges t problem, i.e., sus tainable development. According to the United Nations, education is needed to promote sus tainable development and improve public awareness of environmental and developmental issues. Sus tainable development using educational tools, in the firs t s tep, requires identifying the areas and factors that play a role in the development of sus tainability education. This s tudy aims to identify the effective factors for the development of sus tainability education in Iranian architecture universities using the analytical-inferential s trategy.  The qualitative analysis of the documents revealed that the educational environment, educational sys tem, and society were the mos t effective ones in the development of sus tainability education of architecture s tudents. Finally, solutions were presented to improve public awareness and reform the educational environment and sys tem to develop sus tainable education in Iranian architecture universities.