Questioning the “Analogical Approach” in the Architectural Design with Examples

Abstract

Today’s architecture appears to have been produced in the context of different mass searches, thought systems or concepts, especially in the past decade. So theorists, researchers, practitioner architects or educators architects state that these developments in architectural discipline should be accepted as a new era. Non-architectural factors such as computer technology, scientific developments and advances in access to information are effective in the formation of this environment. However, the most important point is the most striking feature of the new period whose existence is accepted. It is the production or evaluation of architecture through visual images, forms and similarities. The aim of this study is to examine the analogical approach of the recent architectural design practice in the architectural design studio. For this purpose, within the scope of architectural design-identity lesson, the literature on the use of analogy in philosophy and architecture from past to present has been researched, the sample analogical structures from the world have been analyzed and classified and “Why does the architect make analogy inspired by nature?” The answer to the question was sought. As a result, it was determined in the analysis made with the students that the inspiration from nature in architectural design, the analogical approach has a structure that develops with a natural choice or impulse. However, architectural design is not just an intellectual discipline that requires designing prestigious, iconic structures. It is also a design process that has social and social responsibility and must combine them with parameters such as function, architectural program, local values and formal anxiety. Based on this, it should be accepted that formal, conceptual and creative images are equally important when using analogy in architecture. It has been concluded that when the architect produces correct messages with correct references in the design, successful structures are formed, but when he uses them as simple analogies in the form of postmodern images, which we sometimes call imitation and do not add comments in his design, failures occur and reactions arise.