Mimaride Anlam; Yapıdaki “Sembolik Dil” Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Abstract

Architecture is a symbol and a form of communication. Architecture, a symbolic mode of discourse like all branches of art, is a physical representation of human thought and yearning and a record of the cultural values and beliefs created thereby. Each building designs a message for one who can perceive it and again each building has a story it wants to relay to us. When correctly translated a building explains all social, political and economic phenomena which participates in and form the life. By the same token, when the theme of the building is grasped it is no more an ordinary architectural but also a cultural figure which is not just the personality and sound of an individual but of a nation lasting for hundreds of years ensuring the establishment of a complete communication. In this paper, the communicative and symbolic language used in architecture from the cave to Post-Modernism will be investigated and the stories that shape and determine the visual language constituting the comments of the codes and the dialog will be brought out.