Abstract:
The Anatolian Vernacular architecture, which offers a window into the region’s traditions and heritage, has been an important source of modernist architecture. The 20th century Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, also known as Le Corbusier, in his last book “Le Voyage d’Orient”, described in detail the material and volumetric expression that he found in this vernacular from the Turkish lands. It was later in the work of Turkish architect Sedad Hakkı Eldem, in his seminal “Turkish Houses” book series, that this Anatolian Vernacular became “codified” in a typological catalogue of architectural drawings.
Yet it was only with the architectural theories of the architect Cengiz Bektaş that the Anatolian Vernacular architecture became described in the context of the social and cultural from which it was based. Bektaş, in a series of books and drawings from the 1970s-1980s focusing on select geographies in Anatolia, was able to outline the people and architecture of Anatolia in a holistic way. Eyiler will be exploring Bektaş’s work and findings as well as its influence on his own designs.
Guest Speaker: Mert Eyiler
Moderator: Gökhan Karakuş
Online Webinar via ZOOM
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