Description
All eyes are currently on Turkey with Istanbul’s status as European Capital of Culture 2010. It makes it a pertinent moment to take stock and to look at Turkey’s past, present and future, bringing the nation’s cultural renaissance and evolution to the fore internationally. Since the early 2000s, Turkey has undergone a remarkable economic recovery, which has been accompanied by urban development and a cultural flowering. Positioned between an expanding European Union and an unstable Middle East, the country provides a fascinating interface between the Occident and the Orient. Taking into account the current political concerns with consolidating Eastern and Western cultures, Turkey is poised at a vital global crossroads:
- Tackles aspects of globalisation and the potential threat that a rapid rolling out of an overly homogenised built environment poses to rich local building traditions that are founded on specific, climatic, knowledge and cultural diversity.
- Provides an analytical approach that highlights specific aspects of Turkey’s rich heritage and current design culture.
- Features work by established and emerging design practices in Turkey.
- Contributors include Tevfik BalcIioglu, Gülsüm Baydar, Edhem Eldem, Tolga Islam, Zeynep Kezer, Ugur Tanyeli, ilhan Tekeli and Banu Tomruk.
CONTENTS
- Hülya Ertas, Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroglu Hensel: Turkey: At the Threshold
- Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroglu Hensel: Extended Thresholds I: Nomadism, Settlements and the Defiance of Figure-Ground
- Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroglu Hensel: Extended Thresholds II: The Articulated Envelope
- Edhem Eldem: Ottoman and Turkish Orientalism
- Ilhan Tekeli: The Story of Istanbul’s Modernisation
- Zeynep Kezer: The Making of Early Republican Ankara
- Banu Tomruk: Medium-Scale Anatolian Cities: Conceptual and Physical Routes of Urban Transformation
- Hülya Ertas: The Potential of Istanbul’s Unprogrammed Public Spaces
- Tolga Islam: Current Urban Discourse, Urban Transformation and Gentrification in Istanbul
- Tevfik Balcioglu and Gülsüm Baydar: Developing Cities with Design
- Hülya Ertas: Creating Interfaces for a Sustainable Cultural Programme for Istanbul: An Interview with Korhan Gümüs
- Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroglu Hensel: Extended Thresholds III: Auxiliary Architectures
- Hülya Ertas: Transforming Turkey: Eight Emerging Practices
- Ugur Tanyeli: To Integrate or Not to Integrate?
- Mark Garcia: Practice Profile – Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A)
- Jayne Merkel: Interior Eye Jil Sander Boutique and Derek Lam Boutique, New York City
- David Littlefield: Building Profile Raven Row, Spitalfields
- Michael Weinstock: Unit Factor The EmTech Wave Canopy 2009
- Neil Spiller: Spiller’s Bits Telling Stories …
- Mukti Mitchell and Ken Yeang: Yeang’s Eco-Files Designing for Low-Carbon Lifestyles
- Will McLean: McLean’s Nuggets
- Valentina Croci: Userscape Dynamic Light: The Media Facades of realities:united
- Jayne Merkel: The Museum is the Exhibit
- Howard Watson: Site Lines Library of Birmingham
144 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English
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