Abstract
In architectural design, architects, weather on the level of meaning, form or originality and something new, have an inevitable desire to pursue a normative principle in order to assure an objective validity to their work on a strategic level. In result many architects acquired an interest in prominent contemporary philosophical discourse. This study begins with the important issues of modern philosophy: the subject and object, representation and non-representation, and difference and repetition. The fundamental meaning behind these philosophical concepts and a careful analysis and comparison of the root causes of an architect's design suggests that the true value of comtemporary architecture is achieved through a balance between the two elements 'exposure of difference itself' and 'containing the actual existence of the others.' Just as modern philosophy was a reflection to the fundamental values of traditional western philosophy and culture, the compulsive pursuit for something new in contemporary architecture insists on the need for contemplation of the fundamental architectural values stated above.
