Reinterpreting the Contemporary Architectural Practice in Turkey in the light of Context Debate

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2015-07-06

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Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Esin

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Architectural production has always been influenced by the economic developments of an era and the national and international political dynamics. In this regard, today, globalization and the current state of capitalism characterize the various aspects of contemporary architectural practice such as commoditization of architectural objects, urban environments and experiences and strong expression of nationalist identities in the buildings. In the scope of this essay, several projects from Turkey and as well as from international scene are going to be discussed in reference to the broader framework of globalization. These projects are selected as the exemplary cases of ‘homogeneity’, ‘iconism’, ‘theming’, ‘revivalism’, ‘typification’, and ‘urban regeneration’ that have emerged as the major approaches in contemporary architectural and urban design. However, there is a lack of reference to the tools and means of the field of architecture in discussing the problems of these projects in the contemporary debate. In that respect, one of the major problems of these projects is defined as the lack of critical approach to the physical, social, historical aspects of the urban context and specificity in place and time. Thus, this essay aims to frame a new fertile ground for a productive debate on the problems of these projects by bringing the context discussion in architecture to the center. On the other hand, the context debate in contemporary architectural theory is also abandoned due to the limited and simplistic understanding of the notion of context today. For this reason, a mapping of architectural contextualism in the post-war architectural theory and practice will be provided to uncover the evolution of context debate in architecture. Finally, it is asserted that the contemporary architectural and urban problems proliferated by 126 the economical and political impacts of globalization calls for a more critical conceptualization of architectural contextualism. In addition to that, developing a renewed understanding of contextualism has the potential to activate a generative debate on the problems of new urban environments.

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Architecture, Globalization, Contextualism, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/82110
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E. Kömez Dağlıoğlu, “Reinterpreting the Contemporary Architectural Practice in Turkey in the light of Context Debate,” 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/82110.