Problems of Technology and Its Consequent Meaning in Architecture: Practical Implications on Derivative List of Mediations

By identifying the instrumental-anthropological perspective based on Heideggerian criticism on concerning modern technology, this conception has been illustrated as an independent and autonomous feature of technology in which, even, all oriented domination of technology has transformed human nature. What happened in the twentieth century is technology’s vast penetration into language and also architecture, which caused substitution of technology itself instead. In this sense, meaning in architecture has not been far away from the reach of technology. Accordingly, as a research problem, it was aimed to investigate the impacts of the issues emerged by technological instrumentalization on architecture in philosophical ground, in order to figure out its consequent meaning in realization. Moreover, by following Heidegger, among different philosophical perspectives on state of technology, a substantive perspective has been introduced in order to wake technological aspects of architecture, and to fill the theoretical gaps in architectural literature in this topic. This qualitative study has mainly been considered in order to explore and describe a case through a list of mediations emerged themselves from literature review and defining an empirical phenomenological field method of inquiry and its practical implications on the case. Through implication of the field, the Royal Sun Residence complex has been chosen, in Yeni Iskele Region, Northern Cyprus. By employing the phenomenological approach, the observational field proper notes and participations of the inhabitants and the architect, were considered. Therefore, through the process of coding the material data collected, and bracketing out the problematic research subjectivities, the two major themes as environmental universality and building machinery systems were emerged. Those have also explained deliberatively through the process of decontextualization of the environment, homogenization of space and superficiality as a reductive state of turbulence in the environment. To sum up, this process of forming the built environment has been justified by giving the absolute value to technological ordering of the built environment. Together with, different aspects of contextual understanding of the built environment and identity of place were concerned to be reduced into an artificial framework of the technological phenomenon; in which the human autonomy is played down into a technological agent of choice through the process of building his living environment. In fact, this research has been introduced the technological progress as a mode of revealing which identifies the postmodern space and time. Furthermore, as a completion of the study for continuation of this research in future, the necessity of having ontological look was described towards building- creation of a thing- as the human act rather than representation. Keywords: Postmodern Architectural Theory, Instrumental-Anthropological Perspective on Technology, Substantive Perspective on Technology, State of Meaning in Architecture, Empirical Phenomenology.