An Essay on the Relation between Ideology and Architecture: Case of Turkey

Abstract

Ideology what is one of the controversial terms of political science, generally may be evaluated as a pattern that presents, evaluates and interprets the world in a particular form. Popularity of the discussions about “The end of the ideologies” do not change the reality of being the most important legitimacy for the powers. In this sense, while the ideological preferences are reproducing, it can be told, legitimacy is gained to the sovereign on the structural area by aestheticizing the objects. Ideologies beared missions about explaining and also changing the world, on the other hand architechture is born from the need of people about regulating the environment and the world, when these are thougt together, some inferences can be set about the relation between ideology and architecture. Additionally, seperating this thougt from the pure political ideologies, making sense of ideology as a perspective for the events and a though system which inscribed to the individuals’ minds, can make easier of the detection of the relation between these two phenomenon. This study is going to try to point out, departing from usage of architecture by the ideologies as an area of 1 power and legatimacy, irrelevance with the property of the political regime, at all the political society that consist ruling and ruled, ideology makes reflects on architecture. For that, in historical context examples of Turkey will be utilized and as the method, descriptively and historicaly methods will be prefered.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p241