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Here Lions Abound

Levent Şentürk | Every architectural style that gains recognition comes up with its own set of details. Academia is aware of the fixation on detail; it is pointed out as taboo to architecture students. A Good Designer battles the Monster of No-Detail in the inner journey he/she embarks upon alone and reaches Sinai with good details – that’s the way it is in every architect’s mind.

Nihil novi sub sole, nevertheless, this article promises the reader a deterritorialized visual journey. The first hoop in the journey for detail and no-detail is the wall of writing in Delphi, the roof of the Oslo Opera House and letters of light in Eskişehir. The others: ajour wall in Roskilde, the chimneys of the wracked building in Caunos, the wracked courtyard door in Eskişehir.

The beach, the allegorical space of being without a subject. Here, hic abudant leones, lions abound instead of identity; distortion runs its claws through the human flesh.

Other stops: fractal fantasy out of the ivy on the church wall in Roskilde. Crossbreed walls: Tirilye, Lohberg, Sandıma; details that point to microuniverse. Baroque walls in Nicosia: each stone is the Messiah of a lost language. Spolia walls from Sakız Mesta and Ankara Ulus, to Terra Errata, in other words, crossing to lands made out of pure mistake. After that two series: First the Ishtar wall in Berlin, second a rusty factory door in Lohberg. One where the lions really do run rampant, the other with antigraphy scraped on the surface.

The last hoop, a museum of detail hidden in the Kâzım Taşkent Sugar Factory in Eskişehir. An archive of machine parts carved by hand out of wood, a hidden treasure.

Detail, Alias A Noisy Place

Melis Cankara | It is impossible to talk about a building that does not have any details. This is so because being without details implies unconnectedness, whereas the building, beginning with the idea of construction, turns into a series of relations on different scales and layers. The detail seems to be the most "momentary" among these countless relations, covering at once the whole process and making up the loudest noise. Talking about detail also requires talking on the very conditions of its existence. This paper attempts to criticize the approach which addresses the detail as a contiguity problem, with reference to the specific case of ODTU Campus Project, based on the Altuğ-Behruz Çinici Archive in SALT Research.

Detail: Ancient Storyteller of Artistic Creation

Özgür Bingöl | Detail, defined as “any small section of a larger structure or whole” in dictionaries has deeper and multilayered features in artistic creation including architectural design and production. A quote from Jean Labatut describes detail’s deeper meaning best: “The detail tells the tale.” Architectural detail embraces both the structural reality and the conceptual structure in itself. However the journey of architectural detail in 20th century can be summarized as an evolution from Mies van der Rohe’s maxim of 1950s “God lies in the detail” to Rem Koolhaas’ saying of 1990s “No money, no details. Just concepts”. So what’s left behind in a global mass production era? Maybe only questions on where to find meaning in architecture.

Artifacts, Detail and Neuroplaticity

Boğaçhan Dündaralp | It is not my intention to point the arguments that arise from analysing the formal organizations between the modern world, modern human-being, technology-related transition, capitalism and the brain and to draw the topic to a platform of discussion where I would be out of my depth in profundity and scale such as related design, detail studies. My intention is to dwell upon more fundamental and approachable daily practices, some partnerships, examples and also to question our sense of despair that arise from our automatic reflexes. As for detail, I think it plays a role in disclosing our reflexes in open and closed systems and their intersection. Robert Pirsig had described “quality” as the subject’s view of the object. Maybe I can explain my wish to not keep this disclosure (our view on “detail”) limited to architecture, as an impulse to look beyond the views and approaches that lie behind our dilemmas, to discover a behavioral pattern.