Autonomy: Re-appreciation Of Architecture

Autor: Gurbuzbalaban, Melis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
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Druh dokumentu: M.Arch. Thesis
Popis: The contradiction between architecture&rsquo
s &ldquo
autonomy&rdquo
its existence as an entity with its own &ldquo
disciplinary specificity&rdquo
and its social &ldquo
engagement&rdquo
its involvement in culture, ideology and economy, has been the subject of numerous discussions in architectural discourse, initially in Europe and later in North America. It is argued in this thesis that although &ldquo
and &ldquo
seem contradictory to each other, architecture&rsquo
critical status&rdquo
is rooted in this contradiction. Autonomy is regarded as one of the essential sides of architecture&rsquo
s dual position. This suggests that the in-between, or in Stanford Anderson&rsquo
s terms, &ldquo
quasi-autonomous&rdquo
status of architecture can only be sustained through its existence as an entity that has a certain degree of autonomy. Autonomy is an agent for architectural discourse to isolate architecture from its involvement in the external reality and increase awareness within the discipline by concentrating on its specific knowledge. Autonomy aids architecture to pretend to be &ldquo
detached&rdquo
while in reality it is &ldquo
engaged&rdquo
To focus on the autonomous dimension of architecture, to search for architecture&rsquo
s own intrinsic qualities, helps to produce knowledge within the discipline and provides a &ldquo
critical distance&rdquo
for architecture to resist any &ldquo
external authority&rdquo
Thus this thesis intends to explore the potentials of the conceptualization and problematization of &ldquo
in architecture and its employment as a critical tool by architectural discourse to re-assess architectural practice. The private house projects designed by Boran Ekinci in Turkey are exemplified and utilized for the re-conceptualization of the term and enable the transfer of the discourse related with autonomy to the local context where the issue hardly gained a popularity. By doing so, both the appreciation of autonomy in general and reappreciation of architecture in Turkey are aimed.
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