UNCANNY VALLEYS OF ARCHITECTURE: A STUDY ON POSTMODERN HOUSING PROJECTS IN ISTANBUL
Keywords:
Postmodernism, Postmodern Culture, Postmodern Architecture, Simulation, Uncanny ValleyAbstract
Fundamental changes in social structure reflect on lifestyles of individuals and accordingly on architecture, which could be perceived as an expression of lifestyles in plastic format. Thus, the unbreakable relation between socio-cultural and socio-economical structure and architecture comes forth once again. In the period of change from modernism to postmodernism, a distinctive break off is observed from the principles adopted by the industrial revolution, which forms the point of origin for contemporary architecture. The new buildings constructed to meet the accommodation needs of a different migration group having different features in terms of level and education resulted in housing estates/collective group of apartments, which seem to be differing from squatter settlements, though unfortunately having contributed as negatively to the general framework within the urban sprawl. The housing estates/collective group of apartments, essentially started rising with a modernist identification within European countries where a healthy Industrial Revolution was realized in terms of all levels, can be observed to display a postmodernist development in countries such as Turkey, which has got caught between modernity and postmodernity due to failure in keeping up with the prominent countries in this industrialization race. In this study, simulative tendencies of new social theories emerged as a consequence of postmodern urban life is examined as well as the new housing developments addressing the new life style in which consumption habits are changed, and the similarities of these new housing developments are detected in terms of both their layout plans and their spatial configuration within the concept of uncanny valley theory.