Change of the Aesthetical and Functional Meaning in Deconstractive and Post-Modern Architecture

Authors

• Akram Jassim Alakkam, Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
• Ayad Ahmed ELhyti, Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Keywords

Deconstractive and Post-Modern Architecture

Document Type

Original Study

Abstract

Some studies focused on the meaning of function and aesthetics, and its' changingmechanism in contemporary architecture. These studies aimed to explore the changingfoundations of formal relationships, which leads to change meaning in contemporaryArchitecture. Some studies didn't explain the significance of changing values or the activitydegree that associated formal relationships.The aim ofthc research is to explore the significance values ofchanging esthetical andformal meaning indicators, and to explore the activity of formal relationships associating inbuilding structural foundation that changing eslhetical and functional meaning indeconstractivism and post modernism architecture.It was hypothesized the variation of structural and semantical foundations that changeesthetical meaning in deconstractivism and post-modemism architecture, and with morevisible weight to variation ofchanging the esthetical meaning in comparison with functionalonce.

Recommended Citation

Alakkam, Akram Jassim and ELhyti, Ayad Ahmed (2002) "Change of the Aesthetical and Functional Meaning in Deconstractive and Post-Modern Architecture," Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 4.