FROM SPACES OF MECHANICS TO MECHANIZATION OF SPACE (1760s-1960s)

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2024-7-26

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Ölçer, Özlem

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Following a chronological timeline, this thesis aims to draw a constellation of breakthroughs in the evolution of machines that inhabit, interact, and transform the realms of spatial constructions of architecture, built environment, and infrastructure across micro and macro scales. From singular mechanisms to global networks, the study incorporates primer machines, architectural and urban spaces, and historical figures that contributed to the two hundred years of mechanization as a process that mutually recreates scientific endeavors, systems, and paradigms. After the long inception of the mechanisms that replaced human labor until the 19th century, mechanization diffused through architectural, industrial, infrastructural, and urban spaces through engines (steam and others) that were mass-produced and excelled on the assembly line. As global conflicts peaked in the first half of the 20th century, the focus of machine technology changed and subsequently was developed, tested, and employed intensely in both World Wars through the global dispersion of mechanization. The paradigm shifts through Cybernetics in the post-war era blurred the boundaries of enclosed scholarships and laid the groundwork for scientific methodology, interdisciplinary platforms, and systems approach in architectural and urban planning and theory. Focusing on the technical progress and its significant constituents between the 1760s and 1960s, this thesis aims to weave a fabric from the particulars of how, where, and why the spaces of mechanics and process of mechanization unfold within architectural history.

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Makineleşme, Makinasal Mekanlar, Endüstri Devrimi, Montaj Bandı, Sibernetik. Mechanization, Mechanized Spaces, Industrial Revolution, Assembly Line, Cybernetics.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110378

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis