The Turkish Hayat House - Hardcover

Kuban, Dogan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9757622141 ISBN 13: 9789757622147

Publisher: Eren, 1995

Synopsis

The Turkish House is both a picturesque image and a historical fact. Since the sixteenth century, descriptions of travelers and the engravings and paintings of western artists depicting Ottoman lands introduced to the world images of a different urban tradition and the existence of a different dwelling concept. Europeans regarded the physiognomy of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul, and other great cities of the Empire such as Edirne, Bursa, Izmir, Konya, Amasya and lesser towns from the Balkans to Iran and Mesopotamia with a mixed feeling of wonder and disdain.

The Turkish urbanscape - the khans and caravansaries, covered bazaars, Turkish baths, the wooden houses with their lattice-screened windows and bold overhanging projections aligned along the narrow and tortuous streets, well-lit and lavishly-decorated rooms in which dignified men in magnificent robes sat in characteristic postures on low divans, women of the harem looking over the streets from behind wooden screens - all these idiosyncratic images of a preindustrial society. idealized, romanticized and distorted by narrators and artists, excited the imagination of the western public about the nonchalant life of the Turks and the so-called Orient

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About the Author

Dogan Kuban was born in Paris in 1926, of Turkish parents and graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 1949 as an architect. He completed his dissertation on Turkish Baroque architecture in 1954 and prepared his Habilitation thesis in Italy on the comparative study of classical Turkish and Italian Renaissance architecture. He became a dozent in 1958 and a full professor in 1965. Until his retirement in 1993, he was Chairman of the Department of the History of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University and later of the conservation /department. He founded the Institute of History of Architecture and Restoration at that university, and was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Restoration at that university, and was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture between 1974-1977. Dogun Kuban published thirteen books and over 200 articles. In 1994 he was given the distinguished Service Award by the Turkish Foundation of scientific Research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eren
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 9757622141
• ISBN 13: 9789757622147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 279