Özet:

Since the beginnig of their existance, humans need to classify the objects and the assets in order to understand the environment that they are living in. The individual uses the distinctinve differences as a tool in the need of this classifying progress. The works of literature, painting, music, sculptor, theatre, movies and architecture are obtained as a result of individual progress of understanding the environment by classifying the distinctive differences. Among all these branches of arts architecture is painting a more gruelling field in this semantic construction activity. Because, architecture is not only visual, but also can be experienced physically. Above all, the work of architecture is a combine of different knowledge branches and this the makes work of architecture even more contradictory. In this study, there is a debate about how the work of architecture can be explained in the concept of beautiness and ugliness. The topic of this debate, use the frameworks of the questions as, how an architectural work can be accepted as beautiful or ugly, can we use the concept of definitions of the words ‘beauty’ or ‘ugly’ to define an architectural work, can ‘Basic Design Principles’ and ‘Gestalt Principles’ which are effective in creating an architectural work, be used to define the work as beautiful or ugly, or in another way of asking, can we make a normative comment as beautiful or ugly for an architectural work. In this binding , for the city of Trabzon, with the third grade students of architecture, a pilot study has been made with a subject named as ‘ugly constructions’ . The study contains the analyses and the results of the concept of theoretical definitions of ‘beautiness’ and ‘ugliness’ and the selection of beautiful and ugly buildings in Trabzon city by the group of students.