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articles
A Translation Movement
31 January 2022
A Translation Movement
Esra Akcan on multidirectional exchange in Iraqi modern architecture
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In this conversation, Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University) will discuss approaches to architectural history today with Esra Akcan (Cornell University) and Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). What does it mean to write a global history of architecture now? What is the relationship between such a history and urgent contemporary concerns? During a(...)
6 April 2017
A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton: Can There Be a Global Architectural History Today?
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In this conversation, Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University) will discuss approaches to architectural history today with Esra Akcan (Cornell University) and Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). What does it mean to write a global history of architecture now? What is the relationship between such a history and urgent contemporary concerns? During a(...)
Starting From... The Bubble
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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Visiting Scholars 2009
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
23 March 2009 to 30 October 2009
Visiting Scholars 2009
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Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
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23 March 2009 to
30 October 2009
Decolonize or Redistribute? Abdel Moneim Mustafa and Mid-Century Modernism in Sudan
Esra Akcan examines architecture through the lens of healing from colonization
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articles
9 May 2022
articles
Ideas of living
books
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xiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Architecture in translation : Germany, Turkey, and the modern house / Esra Akcan.
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xiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
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96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 14 x 19 cm
Istanbul : 124/3, 2004.
(Land)fill İstanbul : twelve scenarios for a global city = Dolgu İstanbul : küresel şehre oniki senaryo / Esra Akcan.
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96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 14 x 19 cm
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Istanbul : 124/3, 2004.