Browsing by Author "Uysal Ürey, Zeynep Çiğdem"

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An Architectural Response to the Duality Within Cultural Identity: Bruno Taut in Early Republican Turkey
(2018) Uysal Ürey, Zeynep Çiğdem; 18663; 05.02. Mimarlık; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
Cultural Identity as a Constructed Reality and Its Reflection in Architectural Praxis: Sedat Hakkı Eldem in Early Republican Turkey
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Uysal Ürey, Zeynep Çiğdem; 18663; 05.02. Mimarlık; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
Architecture can be seen as a cultural system of signification that enables the transfer of meaning through architectural forms. As with any form of signification therefore, architecture guides our thinking and structures our thought (Hall 1993, 17). This capacity of architecture has been consciously used throughout history to convey certain messages, and was often used by political regimes as a means to communicate certain ideals. In Early Republican Turkey, we observe a similar attempt. In the pursuit of forming a new cultural identity, architecture was used as a means to reflect a modern yet national cultural identity. The integration of the modern-national duality within the definition of cultural identity was of seminal importance for the new nation-state to participate within the international system of nation-states while keeping its self-identity (Smith 1988, 20). However, this dichotomous definition eventually created its cultural tensions and a bi-polar oscillation was observed between the two poles of the modern-national duality (Ergut 1999, 32). Architecture was used in this context as a sign to resolve the cultural tensions of the social sphere by conjoining and reflecting this dual identity through solutions that involved compromise. Sedad Hakkı Eldem’s studies in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s provide a viable forum for discussing these issues in detail. In this framework, this paper will focus on the period between the late 1930’s and the early 1940’s of Early Republican Turkey and discuss respectively: the notion of “cultural identity” as a phenomenon of the modern nation-state; the cultural identity formulations of the Early Republican Turkey; the architectural praxis of the late 1930’s and the early 1940’s, and the architectural praxis of Sedat Hakki Eldem.
Kitsch and Aesthetic Appreciation: Revisiting the Opposition between Familiarity and Novelty from Kant to Cognitive Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation
(2019) Uysal Ürey, Zeynep Çiğdem; 18663; 05.02. Mimarlık; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
The Cognitive Use of Prior Knowledge in Design Cognition: The Role of Types and Precedents in Architectural Design
(2019) Uysal Ürey, Zeynep Çiğdem; 18663; 05.02. Mimarlık; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
This paper examines the cognitive use of prior knowledge in design and evaluates the role of types and precedents in architectural design and education from a cognitive perspective. Previous research on design cognition shows that the amount of prior knowledge possessed by the designer plays a fundamental role in the production and quality of the creative outcome. Prior knowledge is thought to be held by way of specific cognitive structures that are called cognitive schemas and, the role of our cognitive schemas (be it personal or cultural schemas) is portrayed as indispensable for the formation of our creative productions. Although significant efforts were made in the way of studying the use of prior knowledge in design, the correlation of types and cultural schemas has yet to be explored. This paper examines this correlation between cultural schemas, a markedly cognitive concept, and types, an architectural one, culminating in an investigation of the cognitive role of types and precedents within architectural design and education in the light of the cognitive literature. Building on that attempt, the study endeavors to conduct an interdisciplinary theoretical inquiry that respectively studies the role of prior knowledge in design cognition, the concept of cognitive-cultural schemas, the concept of type and its relationship with cultural schemas, and finally, the cognitive role of types and precedents in architectural design and education. In conclusion, this study proposes that, in terms of function, types are virtually identical to cultural schemas at the cognitive level, and types and precedents have a generative value for architectural design, by virtue of the fact that they exist as the initial cognitive schemas that are employed at the beginning of the design process.
The Sociocultural Role of Architectural Types: Cultural Sustainability in Architecture and the Possibility of Convention
(2019) Uysal Ürey, Zeynep Çiğdem; 18663; 05.02. Mimarlık; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
This study looks at the issue of cultural sustainability in architecture from the perspective of architectural types and attempts to question the cognitive viability of using types in the creation of a sustainable cultural milieu. The study conducts a multi-disciplinary and cross-comparative discourse analysis on the subject areas of cultural sustainability, cultural schemas and architectural types, in an attempt to find out the social and cognitive role of architectural types with regard to cultural sustainability. Examining these subject areas comparatively, the study respectively investigates the role of cultural schemas in cultural sustainability, the correlation of architectural types and cultural schemas, and the social and cognitive role of architectural types in the formation of cultural sustainability. Consequently, the study questions if the use of architectural types has a cognitive basis in the creation of a sustainable cultural milieu.