Turkey : modern architectures in history / Sibel Bozdoğan & Esra Akcan.

Main entry:

Bozdoğan, Sibel.

Title & Author:

Turkey : modern architectures in history / Sibel Bozdoğan & Esra Akcan.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2012.

Description:

344 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm.

Series:

Modern architectures in history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Architecture of revolution -- Building for the modern nation state -- The modern house -- Populist democracy and post-war modernism -- Housing in the metropolis -- Architecture under coups d'état -- Postmodern landscapes in post-Kemalist Turkey -- The illegal city and new residential segregation -- The 'young Turk architects' of globalization.

Summary:

Turkey: Modern Architectures in History offers a journey through the iconic buildings of Turkey that begins with the end of World War I, when the new Turkish Republic was born out of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, includes its democratization in the midst of the Cold War's competing ideologies, and concludes with the present day, in which Turkey continues to be dramatically transformed through globalization, economic integration, and a renewed appreciation for its Islamic and Ottoman heritage. Sibel Bozdogan and Esra Akcan explore modern institutional masterpieces and architect-designed buildings through the decades. Their focus includes informal residential plans, and they discuss how these have evolved from small settlements to colossal urban quarters that exist at a slippery threshold of legality. This richly informative history of Turkey's built environment goes beyond typical surveys of Western modern architecture and is unique in tackling the issue of the modern and contemporary periods that are often omitted in studies of Islamic art and architecture. Offering a perceptive overview of modern Turkish architecture, this book places it within the larger social, political, and cultural context of the country's development as a modern nation in the twentieth century.

ISBN:

9781861898784 (pbk.)
1861898789 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Turkey History 20th century.
Architecture and society Turkey History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Turquie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
Turkey.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Akcan, Esra.
Modern architectures in history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282163
Call No.: BIB 219355
Status: Available

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