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Caricatures, which are kinds of written humor, become widespread. Primary features of caricatures are their striking structure, including the language and characters of daily life, feeding from issues of daily life, featuring little writing, swift perception, and containing visual elements. The fact that they exaggerate the present situation, and make people laugh and think at the same time provides them to be catchy. Caricatures feed from a variety of areas in life. They touch upon issues that occur in daily life while entertaining. Caricatures may also feed from architecture. A number of issues can be mirrored in caricatures such as changes that occur in people’s lives, new structures, different approaches to perceiving public space, relationship between the natural and constructed environment, changing urban space, identity loss in cities, and situations in which people get accustomed to or deny the environmental conditions. Architectural discourse in caricatures is analyzed in this text. Architectural discourse mirrored in caricatures in relation to city, building, space, and human has been questioned. The concept of discourse has been examined and information on discourse analysis method has been conveyed. The relationship between caricatures and discourse has been evaluated. Architectural discourse in caricatures has been examined as “Unqualified Constructed Environment, Change in Physical Environment, Excessive Development and Density, Discomfort and Expectations, Destruction of Natural Environment (Ecocide), Destruction of Historical Environment, Design and Planning Thought”. Architecture’s approach to issues related to urban and structured environment and architectural platform have been examined through the method of another discipline. This situation exemplifies the fact that architecture spreads into all areas of life. It also shows that caricatures deal with social problems and provides another point of view for people.

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