ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how transgression shapes the transnational language between architecture and urbanism. It explicitly defines that the architecture of transgression is a polyhedral phenomenon which, by its nature, escapes a synthetic definition. It demonstrates the importance of transgressive strategies by confronting a ‘utopian urban vision’ to extract a radical conclusion. Rather, it interposes a specific epistemology in architectural design with which to look at the future of the city, and it will add another theoretical definition to the existing utopian urban visions developed by previous scholars. It seeks to highlight and negotiate existing urban conditions and contradictions surrounding the apparent homogeneity of a globalised environment of the city. This chapter extensively illustrates the photographic documentation from Cyprus experiences and the field of sociocultural study, including several ethnographic mapping studies conducted to inform the significant importance of the term of ‘transgression’ in architecture and urbanism into today’s practice and culture. It also transforms so as to articulate a substantial discourse as part of a much broader global system.
