Architecture in translation : Germany, Turkey, and the modern house / Esra Akcan.

Main entry:

Akcan, Esra.

Title & Author:

Architecture in translation : Germany, Turkey, and the modern house / Esra Akcan.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Description:

xiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-373) and index.
Introduction: Translation beyond language -- Modernism from above. conviction about its own translatability -- Melancholy in translation -- Siedlung in subaltern exile -- Convictions about untranslatability -- Towards a cosmopolitan architecture.

Summary:

In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking architects to oversee much of the design of modern cities. Focusing on the period from the 1920s through the 1950s, Akcan traces the geographical circulation of modern residential models, including the garden city--which emphasized green spaces separating low-density neighborhoods of houses surrounded by gardens--and mass housing built first for the working-class residents in industrial cities and, later, more broadly for mixed-income residents. She shows how the concept of translation--the process of change that occurs with transportation of people, ideas, technology, information, and images from one or more countries to another--allows for consideration of the sociopolitical context and agency of all parties in cultural exchanges. Moving beyond the indistinct concepts of hybrid and transculturation and avoiding passive metaphors such as import, influence, or transfer, translation offers a new approach relevant to many disciplines. Akcan advocates a commitment to a new culture of translatability from below for a truly cosmopolitan ethics in a globalizing world.

ISBN:

9780822352945 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082235294X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822353089 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822353083 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Turkey History 20th century.
City planning Turkey History 20th century.
Architecture and state Turkey History 20th century.
Architecture Turquie Histoire 20e siècle.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture
Architecture and state
City planning
International relations
Turkey Relations Germany.
Germany Relations Turkey.
Asie Mineure Relations Allemagne.
Germany
Turkey
Turkije.
Duitsland.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279614
Call No.: BIB 215734
Status: Available

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