MEANINGS OF ARCHITECTURAL PERFECTION ACCORDING TO MODERN AND POSTMODERN STYLE

HAZIM RASHEED  KHAMO; AHMED ABDULWAHID  DHANNOON

HAZIM RASHEED KHAMO Dept. of Architecture, College of Engineering, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region–Iraq
AHMED ABDULWAHID DHANNOON Dept. of Architecture, College of Engineering, University of Mosul–Iraq

Keywords: Perfection, Style, Meaning, Modern, Postmodern

Abstract

Perfection is everything correct, complete, excellent, and has a supreme level of beauty. Style is a distinctive way of doing something and associating groups of people, locations or durations. Thus this study deals with the meanings and principles of architectural perfection of modern and postmodern styles. The study analyzed some previous studies about architectural perfection and turned out that there is no comprehensive study that combines the perfection’s meanings of modern and postmodern styles in one study. Depending on that this article aims to collect perfection’s meanings of modern and postmodern styles, also determining which perfection’s meaning is more crucial between the perfection’s meanings of one style and which one is less. Research methodology depends on an Analytical study (a study that gathers data from the theoretical framework), therefore, the study determined eight variables from the theoretical framework: Nature, Simplicity, Openness, and Functionalism for modern style also Symbolism, Fragmentation, Complexity, and Historicism for postmodern style. The method of measurement of variables depends on the qualitative measurement; each variable has four levels of quality which are Poor, Fair, Good, and Very good. Additionally, the study analyzed six building samples from modern and postmodern styles then applied perfection’s variables to them. The results of the modern style in sequence were: functionalism 89%, simplicity with openness 67%, and nature 11%, however, in the postmodern style were: complexity 78%, symbolism with fragmentation 67% and historicism 22%. Finally, this study concluded that functionalism-meaning was the fundamental meaning of achieving perfection in modernism. On the other hand, the fundamental perfection's meaning of postmodernism was complexity

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