Modernism and nation building : Turkish architectural culture in the early republic / Sibel Bozdoğan.

Main entry:

Bozdoğan, Sibel.

Title & Author:

Modernism and nation building : Turkish architectural culture in the early republic / Sibel Bozdoğan.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

Studies in modernity and national identity

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-348) and index.
Introduction: Modernism on the margins of Europe -- First moderns: The legacy of Ottoman Revivalism -- Inkilap Mimarisi: Architecture of revolution -- Aesthetics of progress: Imagining an Industrial Nation -- Yeni Mimari: The making of a Modernist Profession -- Living modern: Cubic houses and apartments -- Milli Mimari: Nationalizing the Modern -- Conclusion -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"With the proclamation of the Turkish republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, Turkey's political and intellectual elites attempted to forge from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire a thoroughly modern, secular, European nation-state. Among many other public expressions of this experiment, they imported modern architecture as both a visible symbol and an effective instrument of their modernizing agenda. They abandoned the prevailing Ottoman revivalist style and transformed the entire profession of architecture in Turkey according to the aesthetic canons and rationalist doctrines of European modernism. In this book, the architectural historian Sibel Bozdogan offers a cultural history of modern Turkish architecture and its connections to European modernism from the Young Turk revolution of 1908 to the end of the Kemalist single-party regime in 1950. Drawing on official propaganda publications, professional architectural journals, and popular magazines of the day, Bozdogan looks at Turkish architectural culture in its broad political, historical, and ideological context." http://books.google.com/books?id=If6lyZ_oOoQC.

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ISBN:

0295981105 (alk. paper)
9780295981109 (alk. paper)
0295981520
9780295981529

Subject:

Architecture Turkey History 20th century.
Nationalism and architecture Turkey.
Architecture Turkey 20th century.
Architecture Turquie 20e siècle.
Nationalisme et architecture Turquie.
Architecture Turquie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Nationalism and architecture
Architektur
Nationalismus
Moderne
Bouwkunst.
Nationalisme.
Arquitetura moderna Século 20.
Nationalism and architecture Turkey History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Turkey.
Public architecture Turkey.
Architecture, Domestic Turkey.
Turkey History 1918-1960.
Turquia.
Turquie Histoire 1918-1960.
Turkey
Türkei

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Studies in modernity and national identity.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218151
Call No.: NA1368 .B6 2001
Status: Available

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