A Contingency in Architecture: Is 'house' consumed in postmodern daily life? [Megaron]

Housing is always a special topic for architecture and interior architecture. This special interest is understandable, as it has a prior role in individuals lives. Especially the beginning of the 20th century, and the impact of modernism on social life, created a diversification in the viewpoint to housing an their interiors. Housing had an active, varied, and open to dispute story started from the avangard, traditionally alienated, flexible, and chic spaces of modernism to the colourful, cheap, and inarticulated signs of postmodernism. Of course, these changes were not easy to achieve. The change of social organism, innovations in technology, differentiations in individuals needs and demands, and their social status created the most essential components of this process. While putting 100 years behind us, and experiencing the first quarter, it seems that housing remains important as it was before in individuals lives, but some differentiations in the representation are attracting attention. Today, as a consumption object, house stands beyond of the statement of daily dynamics, taste and the expression of the identity the consumer defines as the representation of the social groups he belongs to. The aim of this study is to analyse the conversion of the house since the beginning of the 20th century in respect of the space identifying and identity creating factors of the individual, who sees house as an consumption object in daily life, and transformes “home” as part of his life; and to reveal the possible existential results