Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Technische Universiteit Delft, Mimarlık, Mimarlık, Hollanda
Tez Danışmanı: Michiel Riedijk, Tom Avermaete
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2017
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Desteklendiği Program: Diğer
Özet:
Context is a
crucial concept in architecture, despite the frequent ambiguity around its use.
It is present
in many architectural thoughts and discussions, while a critical discursive
reflection is absent from contemporary architectural theory and practice.
Situated within this schizophrenic condition in which the notion is both absent
and present, this study aims at creating a historical and theoretical basis for
a contemporary discussion on context. Discussions on context or alike notions
had always existed in the field of architecture but the debate intensified and developed
as a multi-layered body of knowledge in the 1950s, when various
architects, theorists and teachers cultivated several perspectives on context
as to address some of the ill effects of modern architectural orthodoxy and the
destructive effects of post-war reconstructions. Despite being a topic of layered and
productive debate in the post-war years, context lost popularity in the
critical architectural discourse of the 1980s when it was absorbed by postmodern historicism and
eclecticism, co-opted by traditionalists and conservationists, and consequentially
attacked by the neo-avant-gardes for its blinkered understanding. This research
presents a critical archaeology of the context debate, aiming to reclaim the
notion by uncovering its erased, forgotten and abandoned dimensions. To do so,
it challenges the governing paradigm of 1980s postmodern architecture by making
inquiries into the history and genealogy of its particular trajectories with a
criticism from within. Taking 1980 as a starting point, coinciding with the
First Venice Architecture Biennale, the research traces the debate on context
back to the 1950s through an in-depth study and interpretation of the ideas and
works of Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown and Colin Rowe. This
reverse chronology reveals that in the works of these protagonists the
understanding of context has shifted from “place to memory”, from “spatial to
iconographic” and from “layers to object”, where the former categories still
hold the capacity to recover the notion as a critical concept that is intrinsic
to the architectural design process. In brief, by drawing upon the vast
resources available in different media, such as exhibitions, archival
materials, student projects, publications, buildings, etc., the study
constructs an outline of “the context thinking” as it was articulated in
architectural culture in the period between 1950s and 1980s.