An inquiry into the voyage of avant-garde within the domains of art and architecture makes
it evident that avant-garde is ambiguous in meaning as a word, a term, a phenomenon and a
concept. This study aims to decipher avant-garde and to offer a map for its
conceptualization in architecture. Taken not as a monolithic statement but as a unitary
concept incorporating a number of subjects and formations for granted, in this study,
architectural avant-garde is conceptualized as diverse expressions of activated energy of
various subjects that reveal completely different attitudes and productions. Unfolding the
concept in different dimensions, this study is an endeavor to delve deeper into various
layers of theoretical and historical formations / to form a framework for conceptualizing
architectural avant-garde through scanning the twentieth-century avant-gardes / to focus on
the avant-garde formations of the 1960s by applying this conceptual framework, and the
debate on their receptions in the present architectural context of Turkey. Being on the verge
of architecture, the avant-gardes during the 1960s, namely Constant Nieuwenhuys, Yona
Friedman, Japanese Metabolists, Archigram, Archizoom, and Superstudio, point out that
architecture is both an intellectual activity and a physical production. Projections and
resonances of these avant-gardes in the Turkish architectural context of the subsequent
periods are trail blazed through the expressions of a group of receiving subjects from the
Turkish scene of architecture. Hence, this study offers to lay a common ground for debating
on the limits of architecture by forming not only the topography of architectural avantgarde
in this era, but also a & / #8216 / supra-discourse& / #8217 / on architectural avant-garde.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609369/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 February 2008 |
| Creators | Savasir, Gokcecicek |
| Contributors | Cengizkan, Ali |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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