A NEW FUTURE FOR ARCHITECTURAL PRAXIS: CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AMONG CONCEPT, THOUGHT AND RHETORIC

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 19 - 28, 01.09.2019

Zafer Sagdıc Nur Urfalıoğlu Sezgın Bılgın

Abstract

On one hand, architecture praxis includes two inherent aspects as the architectural thought which lays at the background of the profession and the practice on the field, and on the other hand, it also has two methods on its’ communication, rhetoric and drawing. From another perspective it uses signs to communicate its function and meaning. This communication is rhetorical, when it induces its perceiver to use or to understand its’ nature. Movements in architecture, such as the Gothic, Baroque or the Revivals Style, promote certain values and beliefs, and can be studied as rhetorical movements. Without any doubt, architecture is a language. Like linguistic communication, architecture consists of codes, meanings, semantic shifts, and syntactic units. It seems that most visible in recent arguments of the designing space and definition of architectural concept is creating an argument of “A New Future for Architectural Praxis”, which argues that making the connections among the complexity and contradiction on the nature of the architecture and other disciplines related with creating a space. On contemporary architecture, architects are interested in concept creations more than articulating a theory of architecture on its’ rhetoric comparing to the early 20’s modernism; it seems that recently the single most important challenge is confronting eco-friendly and easy living spaces on a future-sight of the world, whereas mostly architects are focusing on Utopic concept creations including almost on Baudrillard’s simulacr and simulacra theory. Thus, the paper will have the story of contemporary architecture among concept creations, architectural thought, confronting ecofriendly and easy living spaces on a future-sight of the world toward rhetoric of architecture

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