Uğur Tanyeli

THE CONTEXT OF THIS EXPERIMENT: DESIGNING THE PROCESS INSTEAD OF THE FINAL FORM

One of the transformations that have taken place in the world of architecture after the 1990s is this: We are abandoning the ideology of the form and advancing towards establishing the ideology of the process. Naturally the term ideology is not used in its political sense here. I define it as the infrastructure of a general knowledge regime which forms the base for a professional practice. The transformation which becomes clearly evident in architecture starting at the threshold of the 1990s, manifests itself in the following manner: Instead of producing architectural practices whose main purpose is to create a final form, the present knowledge regime generates other practices which do not seem to be too concerned with the prediction of the form.
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