NEW LIFE STYLES: THE GATED COMMUNITIES

Year 2008, Volume: 10 Issue: 3, 73 - 84, 01.09.2008

T. Didem Akyol Altun

Abstract

In present days, it is a fact that, there is an important transformation in the world and industrial
society has been evolving the information society. The changes in the technological, economical,
social, political, cultural areas and social life affect the architecture. The transformation has begun
with rapid developments in microelectronic and computer technology; a new content and
conformation has been emerged in architecture by carrying the design action to computer. There are
some architectural rapprochements which are foreground because their different characteristics from
conventional buildings and are determined and are introduced as a ‘non-standard’ in the
architectural media. These design rapprochements that has pretentious ideas for the architecture of
future, has close relations with scientific and technological developments for being non-standard. In
this context, in this article under some captions like as ecological architecture, computer architecture,
new materials and building systems, genetic architecture; the effects of scientific-technologic studies
on architecture at the end of 20th century, the non-standard architectures in contemporary
architecture and the utopic architectural rapprochements which can be shape the far future are
investigated.

Keywords

The gated communities, “Ideal home”, Consumption culture, Life style, İzmir

YENİ YAŞAM TARZLARI: KAPALI KONUT YERLEŞKELERİ

Abstract

society has been evolving the information society. The changes in the technological, economical, social, political, cultural areas and social life affect the architecture. The transformation has begun with rapid developments in microelectronic and computer technology; a new content and conformation has been emerged in architecture by carrying the design action to computer. There are some architectural rapprochements which are foreground because their different characteristics from conventional buildings and are determined and are introduced as a ‘non-standard’ in the architectural media. These design rapprochements that has pretentious ideas for the architecture of future, has close relations with scientific and technological developments for being non-standard. In this context, in this article under some captions like as ecological architecture, computer architecture, new materials and building systems, genetic architecture; the effects of scientific-technologic studies on architecture at the end of 20th century, the non-standard architectures in contemporary architecture and the utopic architectural rapprochements which can be shape the far future are investigated

Keywords

Kapalı konut siteleri, “İdeal ev”, Tüketim kültürü, Yaşam tarzı, İzmir

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