AESTHETIC OF DISORDER:
NEW CONCEPTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE AFTER 1990s

The concept of order takes central role in the definitions of architectural design. On the one hand the creation of order is the ultimate aim of design, on the other hand the concepts such as; purpose, reason, predictability, systematization, formality etc. related with order effective on design process in the creation of order. This is valid for each period of history of architecture. To reach ideal order of their own period, designers have struggled to create methods, rules, models for the determination of design process. They have create types, norms, models, and systems. In this way, a variety of diverse orders such as natural order, human body’s order, mechanical order, scientific order etc. have received as models by architects. But especially after 1990s, opposite concepts such as arbitrariness, randomness, informality, formlessness etc. replaced  the mentioned concepts which are related with order in contemporary architectural theory and practice. Architects and groups  including Zaha Hadid, Sanford Kwinter, FOA, Nox, Cecil Balmond, Greg Lynn, Daniel Libeskind have argued a new architectural order. For the legitimatisation of their own discourses, they used these concepts which are related to disorder with some contemporary scientific and technological developments. What is commonly believed that the scientific revolution is to have had an source for architecture of new era. It is common to refer to chaos theory, complexity theory, fractal geometry, and the recent developments in biology.

Thus this paper intends to explore how the concepts related with disorder of which origin is in science have been used to create a new architectural order and to investigate are these struggles signs of the changing of the understanding of traditional order in architecture?

Keywords: order, disorder, science, architecture