The role of the architect and autonomy of architecture : an inquiry into the position of the early modern architect and architecture: Le Corbusier and Maison Curutchet

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Seyhun, Canan

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This thesis is an inquiry into the position of architecture both as a cultural product and as an autonomous discipline. The purpose to search for architectural autonomy is to discover architecture̕s internal values that can make architects become more aware of their tools and potentials. That kind of research is to discover the boundaries of the discipline of architecture, which interrelates with many other disciplines. In order to explore architectural autonomy, this thesis explores the internal qualities of architecture with relation to the external ones. The scrutiny of these internal qualities is to direct architecture through its own realm and to discover its significant values and internal potentials. Architectural autonomy is explored in this thesis in the framework of Modern Movement. The technological inventions and the social and cultural developments are considered as influential forces in the discipline and practice of architecture. This study attempts to identify the concept autonomy, not as a property indicating to an architecture that is completely independent from its cultural environment, but as a value implying to architecture̕s interior qualities that are significant in the discipline̕s boundaries. Architecture is examined with relation to its cultural circumstances; by arguing that architecture is not only a part of culture but also one of the constituents of it. Besides fulfilling cultural values, architecture has the ability to transform culture, with its own internal values. In this regard, the issue of autonomy gains importance in maintaining architecture a cultural value.

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Architectural autonomy., Culture.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14085

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C. Seyhun, “ The role of the architect and autonomy of architecture : an inquiry into the position of the early modern architect and architecture: Le Corbusier and Maison Curutchet ,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2004.