Abstract
This study is on the concept of Gunter Behnisch' s 'Situationsarchitektur'. Gunter Behnisch is known as the architect who have produced astonishing variety of different types of buildings since 1950s. His works always reflect his changing major concerns of architecture, which varied through his career such as flexibility and serial production in the 1960s, politics and place in the 1970s and 80s, and ecological issues in 90s and afterward. Behnisch says that the goal of architects' work is not so much the building as the situation to be created, and only such measures should be taken as in fortunate cases strengthen and give meaning to the situation that exists, or in less fortunate ones recreate it. The 'Situationsarchitektur' is realized through emphasizing transparency, humanity, public space, and open detail that could lead to a certain lightness and relaxedness in architecture not as an end in itself, but rather in the result. Architecture should be allowed to arise out of circumstances of use and construction, but form should not be imposed as a preconception. Also architecture should be strongly tied to time, space and local conditions. Behnisch tries to see the fundamentals of his work in such a way that subtlety and diversity develop of their own accord or are preserved as a reflection of a world.