PLEASURE IN ARCHITECTURE REVISITED: FROM THE 1960S TO CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

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2024-9-03

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Aşcı, Büşra

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Architecture has been approached and produced with sensory, psychological, and aesthetic searches as well as functional and utilitarian needs and approaches while creating the built environment throughout its historical process. The discipline of architecture involves not only the creation of physical spaces following the needs and demands of societies but also an intellectual production process and an experience of space since it is also closely related to the senses and experience. This study focuses on an important concept that emerged as a result of these sensory, psychological, and aesthetic searches: the idea of architectural pleasure. Architectural pleasure has been addressed in architecture for centuries with various approaches and is influential in the design processes of architecture and the experience of the designed spaces. For this reason, to understand how the concept of pleasure concept is interpreted in architecture and to emphasize various approaches, this study examines a process from the 1960s to contemporary perspectives. In this context, the reflections on the concept of pleasure in the architectural literature are analyzed, and its conceptual framework is revealed. It also shows how the inspiring pleasure-oriented approaches that emerged in the 1960s have been and can be reconsidered in contemporary architectural theory.

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Architectural Pleasure, Architecture of Pleasure, Experience of Space, Delight

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111522

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis