Temporalty in architecture

Architectural dimensions have gained a new meaning by the usage of the word?temporalty? in recent years. This new concept, has slid itself by gaining a pure identityfrom the concept of ?temporality? in the works of three philosophers; Martin Heidegger,Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida and found an environment of application in the designsof some architects of the 21st century. In this study these three different approaches are tobe compared with each other to reach to a true definition of the concept of ?temporalty?.Thus, the architectural dimensions should be analyzed under the context of this new term.Architectural facts develop in three spatial dimensions, but the appearance of theconcept of ?three dimensional architecture? can be considered as a relatively newphenomena. This concept gained a new meaning by Rene Descartes? Cartesian Philosophy.This philosophy defines this concept with Cartesian dimensions which means that thetotality of architecture can only be gained by accepting all three dimensions as intrinsicparts of a whole.At the beginning of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein explained that the timedimension was as important as spatial dimensions to comprehend the universe. As a result,time is being considered as the fourth dimension in the phenomenology of architecture as awhole.In psychology, Gestalt theory which is influenced from Einstein?s works has gained animportant meaning with including time as the fourth dimension into visual arts andarchitecture with the works of Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Kofka inbetween 1912 and 1940.The concept of ?four dimensional architecture? is a product of the early twentiethcentury architectural revolution. After the Second World War one of the theorists of thisconcept, Siegfried Gideon, had described this architectural approach as ?Four DimensionalArchitecture?.An event can determine with the ?fourth dimension?, due to mechanical qualities it has.In ?Gestalt Theory? this determination can only be explained as ?lifelikeness?. When theGestalt theory is discussed within architecture, the architectural product should reflect notonly a totality of physical/material world, but also a philosophy, a piece of experience and agood life. Thus, the totality of a piece of architecture appears as something more than aphysical, balanced entity; as it reveals a thought, which is explained with the concept of?the good gestalt?, as Gestalt theorists had mentioned.After 1945, Gestalt Theory acquired a significant support from Carl Gustav Jung?s?Analytic Psychology?. The main concept of Analytic Psychology was Jung?s ?Theory ofcollective subconscious and personality. Jung?s ?archetypes?, the main material of?collective subconscious? also take the Gestalt rules into their repertoire.In early years of 1980ies, Nigel Coates began to speak about ?a fifth dimension?, whichis composed of a mental dimension and a time dimension, and which unifies itself as ?thenarrative dimension?.The recent developments of architecture show that, adequate architectural spatialitiesdefine a ?temporal dimension? rather than a ?narrative dimension?. A ?temporaldimension? consists of a ?secular piece of life? bordered with ?a piece of time?, where apiece of time is the fourth dimension and a ?piece of life? is the fifth dimension. Thus, thetrue meaning of the new term ?temporalty? should be searched within a five dimensionalenvironment.New individualist approaches to architecture in the reach of the new millennium clearlyshow that true architecture can only be realized either consciously or subconsciously withina spatio temporal experience. One of the last architectural movements of the last decades,?Deconstructivist Architecture? shelters the concept of ?temporalty? in its discourse.Therefore different designs of three main deconstructivist architects are examined andanalyzed as case studies in the preceding part of this work, to define the reflections of?temporalty? in practical life.