Author(s): YeÅim KAYA, Mehmet UÄur KAHRAMAN
Art and architecture are disciplines that share a common goal and similar formal principles. With the return of these
partnerships, the architects did not hesitate to emulate and collaborate with other disciplines when necessary, but also blended their
own methods and knowledge. Looking at the 20th century De Stijl period, the painter Piet Mondrian and the artist Theo van Doesburg
abstracted concrete objects and reduced them to their formal concepts. In the following processes, the paintings were reinterpreted and
turned into spaces. Leading architects of the period such as Gerrit Rietveld, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright
also created their own works by emulating space and abstract painting with semantic and functional concepts. This process involves the
creation of the new knowledge and concrete work that the designers produce as a result of their subjective interpretation of the concepts
they reach with abstractions and the concepts they deal with. As a result of the search for expression, architects can transform their
ideas into a work through abstraction inspired by abstract art, as well as present their own work by emulating an architectural work.
While trying to create a work, inspiration, influence and similarities in art and architecture are a possible process. Such influences
contribute to the originality of the architects by adding their own interpretation. Today, designers and architects are unaware of the
conceptual basis of the works they emulate and produce. The fact that they do not attach importance to the creative thinking and
questioning process required to produce original designs causes not enough original works to emerge. Within the scope of this article, it
is suggested to complete the processes such as the architect's own abstract thinking, understanding the architectural infrastructure from
the structures of master architects in the literature, along with the proposed method and course content for architectural undergraduate
education. In this way, it is thought that students will contribute to the creation of original works as an architect after graduation and
that a natural process such as emulation does not turn into imitation.
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