An Onto-Epistemic Inquiry Regarding Memory And Counter-Memory Of Modernist Architecture: Defects And Futility Against Norms And Causality
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This research is a critical inquiry of the ontological and epistemological status of Modernist Architecture, and is based on the argument that such an inquiry can be made by directing to Modernist Architecture's memory and counter-memory.The central hypothesis is that, in addition to having a memory, Modernist Architecture also possesses a counter-memory; it actualizes itself through norms and causalities accumulated in its memory.However, it also possesses defects and futilities, and even though it cannot actualize itself through them, they continue to accumulate in the countermemory of Modernist Architecture.Counter-memory is a repository of the rejected, deprived, suppressed, and deferred qualities of Modernist Architecture, and exposes them in the late modern period.Norms and causality constitute a set of epistemes which encompass the agreed upon characteristics capable of validating Modernist Architecture at any given time, whereas defects and futility represent a distinct set of counterepistemes that encapsulate the singular, intuitive, heretical, and anomalous characteristics of Modernist Architecture.The aim of this research is to develop a methodology that allows for the appraisal of Modernist Architecture from both sets and, through this methodology, present a fallibilistic possibility for modernist architectural theory.To achieve this goal, the research is transformed into a research program framed by Imre Lakatos' methodology of research programmes.Within this program, the ontological and epistemological status of Modernist Architecture is examined through three categories: form, function, and meaning.In these categories, traces of norms and causality in the memory of Modernist Architecture, as well as traces of defects and futility in its counter-memory, are investigated.Among all the modern architectural practices that developed at the end of the 19 th century and rejected historicism, the Modernist Architecture occupied the most dominant position after 1920 with its rationalist,
Authors: Senem KAYMAZ, Joerg H. GLEITER
Institutions: Technische Universität Berlin, Yıldız Technical University
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412572367