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Timeline of Architecture Autonomy

The aim of this project is to create a comprehensive mapping of an architectural ideology between 1968-1984. This period is not scholarly categorized in architecture history because all of the ideologies are mainly conceptual and unrealistic; instead it is considered an “unofficial,” so called, period of “Experimental Architecture: Autonomous Architecture.” The main objective of this self-referential architectural ideal is to create a uniformity of architectural experience using an “effect” of space and meaning rather than a physical notion of a building. Group of architects, led by Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, Bernard Tschumi, Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, are discussed as figures that led to this major development in architectural theory.

Based on K. Michael Hays’s propositions, the mapping is engaged in a critical understanding of architecture as “cultural” and “philosophical” artifacts. By using time as a medium to represent the history of the ideology, five significant architects are mapped in the timeline in conjunction with “matters” that influenced their thoughts: philosophical writing (including theoretical essence of linguistic, semiotic and psychoanalysis models), architectural theories, buildings, architectural trends, and political and economical events. The product of the project demonstrates not only connections between architecture and the real world through events and intellectual dialogue, but also a vivid lineage of the architects’ quest for an architectural discipline

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