Discussion Of Different Architectural Theories Used In Architecture (Research Paper Sample)

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Architectural Theories of Design
Theory can be seen as a reflective or contemplative type in any abstract or general form of any results or thinking (Salingaros, P 3). Some of the examples of the building discussed in calss are the Radio City music hall which is a good example of a theory although the theory of the hall remains a fresh. Also, the existence of the Dom-ino house prototype tries to explain through theory how the first houses looked like and how they evovled to the modern houses. Hence, the two building serves as good example of theories. Theory are subdivided into two major catogories, normative (prescriptive) theory, it describes what is being ought to be and in this case, it gives goals, standards and norms. In the current research, the theory has been seen a body of knowledge that ca be associated with some specific explanatory models. For example, scientific theories are mostly confirmed when it has a consistency of a particular scientific method that is well-confirmed with the provided explanation of nature and fulfilling criteria outlined by the modern science.
Architectural theory is defined as the act of discussing, thinking and writing about past architecture designs. For example, the OMA and Rem Koolhaas of 1982-1983 tries to explain different theories by the leading architects Manhattans when he first designed it with steel and glass. Architectural theories are always believed to be didactic, and it tends to work or stay closely within the history books, magazines, and journals. All forms of writing that consist of this theories contained original pages of work by different architects and critics that were experienced in the twentieth centuries. Since the early histories, there is a different evolution in the architectural designs although currently with the help of internet there is the most noticeable difference between the twentieth century and the twenty-first-century designs (Salingaros, P 13).
Like other theories, the architectural theory is classified according to the primary purpose of the study and the include:
Descriptive architectural theories mainly aim at reporting the past or the present state of the research object that can either be a single building, a class of different buildings or an assigned series of the buildings. For example, the Dom-ino house prototype. Monographs type of buildings is all classified under the descriptive theory of design that is accompanied by histories of architecture, the OMA and Rem Koolhaas of 1982-1983 tries to explain different theories.
Explanatory architectural studies theory is the type of theory that tries to investigate why buildings designs take a given shape and not the existing one, for example the self-referential sign by Peter Eisemen. Explanatory research gets the reason why the design was undertaken under the shape and gives an explanation from the past that is usually provided by a casual explanation from the concurrent context and sometimes from the future.
Normative architectural design theory gives an explanation on how the case design object can be improved from time to time and how to do it (Wayne, P2).
Architectural theories have different reasons why they are of great significance in the current days. For example, design history of the OMA and Rem Koolhaas of 1982-1983 tries to explain different theories by providing an explanation that makes explicit or implicit assumptions and used to give historical origins of the design and the time place scope conditions on the claimed reasons provided. For example, we can get a detailed explanation of the whole design of the 6 Villa Foscari design of 1560, and the reader can be able to understand what was used in that design, what is applied to the current designs and all the improvements made in that design.
Theory helps in providing the long-term access, where all observable or some of it features of the processes occurs in conjunction with the connected cohort of the human analysts and hence there is a high need for historical reconstruction. For example, in the “’Life in the Metropolis’ or ‘In the Culture of Congestion’” in the Architectural Design 47.
It acts as a benchmark on done invention that always remains as a representation of the design that sometimes the design was awarded the names, and sometimes both the name and the main invention. In the Tschumi-Architectural designs, the invention and constructed to the Pyramid designs, the structure was made in a shape of a pyramid and hence the name of the structure Pyramid, and up to date, there are those that uses the same design and also builds the pyramid (Simon, P4). Also, the design by the Tom Wiscombe Architecture on the Old bank District museum in Los Angeles.
Theories help in settling down confusion in education and practice since they provide the basic concepts of design and act as a guideline where they may be needed. For example, in the OMA and Rem Koolhaas of 1982-1983 tries to explain different theories and also the resulting difficulties that may arise from conflicting ideas, different theories can be applied to clear it out and give the required design or the basic design.
Finally, theories act like the fundamental thinking basics where they provide all the initial designs procedure that may be needed by any designers or architecture. For example, the “Flat Ontology” that is used being used by some designers as the basic of the design and is highly developed by thinkers that have joined speculative realism and many architects use it since it has been proofed to be an attractive design (Wayne, P2).
Many developmental theories relate with the political of form in many ways, for example, the Manhattan skyscrapers in the New York’s 53rd Street, when his design was used against the manifesto of powers and was used by politicians to cause wars that was between Fifth avenues and Madison where some clinics clean buildings that contained five crumbling and old slabs that were made of concrete covered in graffiti. The five blocks were once part of the politically charged structures in the world, and later they divided the world into two portions based on the geopolitics and ideologies in the Berlin Wall (Ballantyne, P7). The Over 87 miles wall that had been constructed for 25 years it divided Berlin into East and West and remained the only symbol of tension and division that later resulted in millions of political and immigrant refugees. The rising tide of the international political stability led to build of the environment in United Arabs that resulted in riots. Political strategies of architects have been in different perspectives although it has resulted in various political crisis. This has been proofed by a negative track of architects who have tried to apply for work on leading intellectuals in their trained departments since many architectures seem to reject the philosophy and their political dimension is vitally important (Ballantyne, P7).
Architectural sociology is an approach that examines how the architectural forms react and influence the two sociocultural settings. Sociocultural problems where experienced in the OMA and Rem Koolhaas of 1982-1983 since many sociologists where against the construction of the story building. A lar...