A study on the aesthetics in the museum buildings

This study aims at a formal analysis to elaborate the stylistic factors in the museum architecture. It is intended to elaborate the formal aesthetic values in a different point of view for the museums to get certain aesthetic features. The late 20th century is a golden era for the museum design. In particular, this approach has resulted in some liberal museum forms, changing museum styles and the emergence of monumental museums. Furthermore, the importance of the museums as the centers of knowledge, science and arts has gradually increased in the last century, whereby they have shifted from an elite standing to the pluralist approach as to address every sections of the community. This study will focus on the museum buildings that are designed with the aesthetic apprehension, and presented as the artistic works on the basis of an objective attitude to elaborate the formal aesthetic factors on the formal aesthetics. Such studies should increase for getting some concrete results to perceive the recent term aesthetic approaches and improve the forms in line with such approaches. This study elaborates the aesthetic facts solely on the basis of visual dimensions, but ignores the subjective effects to evaluate it in formal, subjective and conceptual aspects. The main material of this study comprises of the descriptive works on the conceptual substructure, and a number of schedules drawn on such concepts, which are applied on the example museum structures. Such works cover many several existing sources such as the design, philosophy, artistic philosophy, shape, form, design elements and principles as well as the museums. Keywords: Aesthetics, design principles and elements, Gestalt rules, museum