Özdamar, Esen Gökçe2022-05-112022-05-1120211453-90472069-8291https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11776/4752This article focuses on understanding and developing the perception of monolithic architecture and its relationship with hylomorphism through auto-ethnography method as the example of the historical cupola cistern in Turkey as a human scale building type. The article focuses on understanding spaces or spatial components that excite and impel us in our first architectural encounter. Some monolithic forms bring up the concept of hylomorphism, while they contain a spatiality that emphasizes or is reminiscent of the body in human perception. This article focuses on the relationship between monolithic spaces, interpreted as muted architecture, regarding hylomorphism as critically developed by Aristotle and Simondon.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessHylomorphismform and mattermonolithic/muted architecturecorporealityhuman-scalecupola cisternArticle27180192N/AWOS:000723703600014