Strangeness in Contemporary Architecture as A Strategy

Throrgh the last four decades of the 20th Century, architecture, as a language, was studied in various directions, which were concemed either with meaning, or with expressive methods. Both directions aimed to enrich it with meaning and significance; which are contradictory and harmonious. To accomplish continuity between architecture and the receiver in the social order, design strategies utilized other fields ol knowledge such as literature, linguistics or sociology... etc. Which merged the two directions. From these, strangeness and differences were realized and studied in this paper.