Recently developed "innovative" architectures

In this thesis, recently developed `innovative? architectures have been discussed. With this, it is aimed to exhibit suggested innovations of those evolutions defined as `new? and to question what they put forth as such. The emergence of new technologies, fast development in molecular biology and information technologies, social and economic changes have found their reflections in architecture discipline, in that understanding of architecture has been changing dimensions. Within the thesis, initially the concept of `innovation? has been questioned and it has been tried to define `innovative? architecture concepts. In the following chapter, architectures defining themselves as `new? in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, space features, conceptual and philosophical perspectives, understandings for `new? have been explicated in points of design methods and designed forms. There are many architectures that can be regarded as `innovative? recently. In the thesis, leading architectural initiatives concerning design, design processes and designing techniques have been tried to be classified. Those would be; Virtual Architecture, Liquid Architecture, Transarchitecture, Architecture in Cyberspace, Hypersurface Architecture, Sci ? Fi Architecture, Emergent Architecture (Genetic Architecture), Interactive Architecture, Folding in Architecture, Kinetic Architecture and Biomimesis Architecture.