Locating the structure-agency dichitimy in architecture : workers' club as a type of social condenser in the Sovites 1917-32

Date

2006

Author

Önen, Hasan İsben

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This thesis focuses on the Soviets after the October Revolution, between 1917 and 1932, in which architecture was seen as the crucial aparatus to transform the society. Within this framework it approaches to social condensers which were perceived as architectural foresights and buildings that aim to transform the society and promote a new, collective way of life and relocates the (social) structure and agency dichotomy in architecture. Furthermore the effort of the creative individual (agent) to preserve his inner-domain is searched through the workers' club designs of two important architects Konstantin Melnikov and Ivan Leonidov, and furthermore trying to understand on which principles they established their architecture. Whereas the conclusion includes a critical evaluation on "halkevleri" (people's houses) as having similar social premises within the scope of the general framework of the study.

Subject Keywords

Architecture.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607090/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15814

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Theses