ARCHITECT OF THE “PLACE”: TADAO ANDO

Year 2026, Volume: 16 Issue: 2 , 664 - 686 , 01.04.2026

Emine Yıldız Kuyrukçu , Raziye Çınar

https://doi.org/10.7456/tojdac.1857154

https://izlik.org/JA93KD79EP

Abstract

Regionalism in architectural practices is a trend in which place-specific parameters such as culture, tradition, climate, topography, local materials and techniques are of absolute importance. In place-specific architectural productions, the physical and sociocultural components of the place and context to which they belong are the most basic data. Following the Industrial Revolution and World War II, rapid processes of production and consumption observed on a global scale led to ruptures from place and the emergence of problems of placelessness. The counter-attitude exhibited by postmodernism, which emerged against the placelessness of modernism, could not establish healthy relationships with place either. With the Critical Regionalism that emerged following these processes, the importance of ”place" was emphasized, and with various manifestos and principles, it was argued that place is a set of values that have absolute importance in architectural design processes. This study aims to analyze the relationship between Tadao Ando, one of the recent hit architects, and the place and local in the context of Critical Regionalism. The study aims to find out which site-specific design criteria are at the forefront in Tadao Ando's architectural works. Yıldız Kuyrukçu (2018) determined the universal design criteria for calling an architectural product ‘critical regionalist-belonging to that place (region)’ by determining the keywords from the articles titled ‘Ten Points on Architecture of Regionalism: A Provisional Polemic’ that Frampton put forward in 1987. In this study, within the framework of the place-specific design criteria developed by Yıldız Kuyrukçu in 2018, the relationship of the selected 10 hit architectural works of Ando with the place was analyzed.

Keywords

Critical Regionalism , Locality , Place-Specific Design Criteria , Tadao Ando

“YER”İN MİMARI: TADAO ANDO

https://izlik.org/JA93KD79EP

Abstract

Mimari pratiklerde bölgeselcilik; kültür, gelenek, iklim, topografya, yerel malzeme ve teknikler gibi yere özgü parametrelerin mutlak önem taşıdığı bir eğilimdir. Yere özgü mimari üretimlerde ait olunan yer ve bağlamın fiziksel ve sosyokültürel bileşenleri en temel verilerdir. Sanayi Devrimi ve II. Dünya Savaşı sonrası küresel çapta gözlenen hızlı üretim ve tüketim süreçleri ile yer’den kopmalar ve yer’sizleşme problemleri ortaya çıkmıştır. Modernizmin yersizleşmesine karşı doğan postmodernizmin sergilediği karşı tavır da yer ile sağlıklı ilişkiler kuramamıştır. Bu süreçleri takiben ortaya çıkan Eleştirel Bölgeselcilik ile “yer”in önemi vurgulanmış, çeşitli manifesto ve ilkelerle yerin mimari tasarım süreçlerinde mutlak öneme sahip değerler bütünü olduğu savunulmuştur. Bu çalışmada son dönemin hit mimarlarından olan Tadao Ando’nun yer ve yerel ile ilişkisinin Eleştirel Bölgeselcilik bağlamında analizi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada merak edilen Tadao Ando’nun mimari eserlerinde hangi yer’e özgü tasarım kriterlerinin ön planda olduğudur. Yıldız Kuyrukçu (2018), Frampton’un 1987 yılında ortaya koyduğu ‘Bölgeselci Mimarlık için On Nokta: Geçici Bir Polemik’ başlıklı maddelerden anahtar kelimeleri belirleyerek, bir mimari ürünün ‘eleştirel rejyonalist-o yer’e (bölgeye) ait’ olarak adlandırmanın evrensel tasarım kriterlerini belirlemiştir. Bu çalışmada Yıldız Kuyrukçu’nun 2018 yılında geliştirdiği yere özgü tasarım kriterleri çerçevesinde, Ando’nun seçilen 10 hit mimari eserinin yer ile ilişkisi analiz edilmiştir.

Keywords

Eleştirel Bölgeselcilik , Yerellik , Yer’e Özgü Tasarım Kriterleri , Tadao Ando

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