THE EFFECTS OF THE CONCEPT OF MINIMALISM ON TODAY’S ARCHITECTURE, EXPECTATIONS AFTER COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

As a word, ‘minimalism’ originates from ‘minimal, that transcribes as ‘minimum’ in French.
Lexically, the word, ‘minimum’ is defined as ‘the least or smallest amount or quantity
possible, attainable or required.’ The same word transcribes as ‘the lowest digit to which a
variable quantity may get reduced’ in mathematics. (Turkish Linguistic Society).
In architecture and other disciplines of design, the minimalist movement has grown relatively
different than the branches of art. Unlike art, architecture offers no absolute rights. When it
comes to design, the functional meaning ascribed to the object is immense. Independent from
semantic and functional yields of minimalism in quite a number of fields, function has always
been compelling around the minimalist movement for designers.
Minimalist movement differs from other architectural movements in that it manifests itself
from time to time at different periods and within other movements before it has grown into a
movement and even after it. For this reason, as far as minimalist movement is concerned, it
would be apt to look at the period before and after minimalist movement emerged as a branch
of modernism. In this paper, postmodern minimalism will have been scrutinized as a
movement.