Strangeness in Contemporary Architecture as A Strategy
Abstract
Throrgh the last four decades of the 20th Century, architecture, as a language, was studied in various directions, which were concemed either with meaning, or with expressive methods. Both directions aimed to enrich it with meaning and significance; which are contradictory and harmonious. To accomplish continuity between architecture and the receiver in the social order, design strategies utilized other fields ol knowledge such as literature, linguistics or sociology... etc. Which merged the two directions. From these, strangeness and differences were realized and studied in this paper.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Architecture and Computational Design
Architecture
Modernity
and Design
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning
- Publisher
- University of Technology, Iraq - DIGITAL COMMONS
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 59–107
- Publication date
- 27 April 2026
- Language
- EN