Architecture and literature: Using literature and novelist/writer as a concept for design in the architectural design process


Aydin A., KÜÇÜK KARAKAŞ B.

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, vol.2015, pp.73-81, 2015 (Scopus) identifier

Abstract

The relationship between architecture and literature is a significant field of argument that ascending for the last 20 years. In this field of argument, space as an outcome of subjective knowledge of literature itself is trying to be overlapped with the subjective knowledge of architecture itself. Spaces in literary texts are attempting to evaluate through architecture. Due to the fact that story arc and characters could not be created independently of a space, the architectural space is essential in the literature. However, the same situation is not valid for the architecture. If only the designer use the literature as a medium for developing concept, the literature would be linked to architecture. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between literature and architecture in architectural design process. This examination or the experiment was conducted in 2014-2015 Fall Semester in Architectural Studio-III at KTU. The space was defined as House of Memory and the concept was chosen as Novelist and his/her novel in the scope of the project. The main purpose of the project is to observe the creation process of an architectural space through concept of specified novelist and novels by the students.