An anti-racist global architectural history project works on at least two levels. The first is wr... more An anti-racist global architectural history project works on at least two levels. The first is writing architectural history in a way that exposes racism in order to repair its damages and to deconstruct racial categories. The second is to show the agency of the racialized subjects in the making of the architectural and urban spaces that we assumed had been created by white male architects.
Few words are as undefinable with any certainty as the ones in the theme of this issue: Europe an... more Few words are as undefinable with any certainty as the ones in the theme of this issue: Europe and its borders. For many of us these borders would shift when considered geographically, historically, intellectually, geopolitically, or culturally. Moreover, nothing unsettles the borders of Europe, or any continent for that matter, as effectively as the concept of migration. If one were to write a history of migrations, conceptualized as the migration of not only people, but also images, words, ideas, technologies, objects, information, and food, and if one were to put Europe in its global context by discussing the continent as a place of both arrival and departure, one would realize how porous these borders have always been. Such a history would critically acknowledge European countries’ role in the history of modernization and colonization of other countries within and outside Europe, and disclose the region’s character as an immigrant continent and diaspora of various peoples. While...
Bu makale, Emst Reuter’in multeci olarak bulundugu Turkiye’de, bir disiplin olarak sehirciligin k... more Bu makale, Emst Reuter’in multeci olarak bulundugu Turkiye’de, bir disiplin olarak sehirciligin kurulmasindaki, sosyal konut konusundaki fikirlerin yayginlasmasindaki ve modern belediyeciligin gelismesindeki katkilarini incelemektedir. Reuter’i kendiyle benzer durumda olan bir grup Alman gocmenin hayati ve profesyonel katkilariyla birlikte ele alan makale, bunu, kulturun kuresel dolasimini aciklamak icin ceviriyi dilin otesinde gorsel mecralara tasiyan bir ceviri kurami baglaminda gerceklestirmektedir. This article explores the German immigrant/exile Ernst Reuter’s contributions to the foundation of city planning as a discipline, the distribution of social housing ideals and the development of modern municipalities in Turkey. Reuter is examined in the context of the life- world and professional contributions of a group of German-speaking immigrants who shared similar conditions, and in relation to a translation theory that offers a way to understand the global circulation of cultur...
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2017
Zeynep Kezer Building Modern Turkey: State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic Pittsburgh:... more Zeynep Kezer Building Modern Turkey: State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015, 344 pp., 88 b/w illus. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780822963905 Meltem O. Gurel, ed. Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey: Architecture across Cultures in the 1950s and 1960s New York: Routledge, 2016, 192 pp., 32 b/w illus. $163 (cloth), ISBN 9781138806092; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 9781138104341 Two fascinating new books on early Republican and midcentury modernism in Turkey may help international audiences make sense of the recent turmoil featured prominently in the news about Turkey. Zeynep Kezer's long-awaited book Building Modern Turkey synthesizes some of the critical scholarship on how the Kemalist program shaped the nation-state in the years immediately following the establishment of the Republic in 1923. Kezer particularly emphasizes the destructive forces in this process, in addition to the constructive ones, by putting special emphasis on the transf...
An anti-racist global architectural history project works on at least two levels. The first is wr... more An anti-racist global architectural history project works on at least two levels. The first is writing architectural history in a way that exposes racism in order to repair its damages and to deconstruct racial categories. The second is to show the agency of the racialized subjects in the making of the architectural and urban spaces that we assumed had been created by white male architects.
Few words are as undefinable with any certainty as the ones in the theme of this issue: Europe an... more Few words are as undefinable with any certainty as the ones in the theme of this issue: Europe and its borders. For many of us these borders would shift when considered geographically, historically, intellectually, geopolitically, or culturally. Moreover, nothing unsettles the borders of Europe, or any continent for that matter, as effectively as the concept of migration. If one were to write a history of migrations, conceptualized as the migration of not only people, but also images, words, ideas, technologies, objects, information, and food, and if one were to put Europe in its global context by discussing the continent as a place of both arrival and departure, one would realize how porous these borders have always been. Such a history would critically acknowledge European countries’ role in the history of modernization and colonization of other countries within and outside Europe, and disclose the region’s character as an immigrant continent and diaspora of various peoples. While...
Bu makale, Emst Reuter’in multeci olarak bulundugu Turkiye’de, bir disiplin olarak sehirciligin k... more Bu makale, Emst Reuter’in multeci olarak bulundugu Turkiye’de, bir disiplin olarak sehirciligin kurulmasindaki, sosyal konut konusundaki fikirlerin yayginlasmasindaki ve modern belediyeciligin gelismesindeki katkilarini incelemektedir. Reuter’i kendiyle benzer durumda olan bir grup Alman gocmenin hayati ve profesyonel katkilariyla birlikte ele alan makale, bunu, kulturun kuresel dolasimini aciklamak icin ceviriyi dilin otesinde gorsel mecralara tasiyan bir ceviri kurami baglaminda gerceklestirmektedir. This article explores the German immigrant/exile Ernst Reuter’s contributions to the foundation of city planning as a discipline, the distribution of social housing ideals and the development of modern municipalities in Turkey. Reuter is examined in the context of the life- world and professional contributions of a group of German-speaking immigrants who shared similar conditions, and in relation to a translation theory that offers a way to understand the global circulation of cultur...
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2017
Zeynep Kezer Building Modern Turkey: State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic Pittsburgh:... more Zeynep Kezer Building Modern Turkey: State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015, 344 pp., 88 b/w illus. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780822963905 Meltem O. Gurel, ed. Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey: Architecture across Cultures in the 1950s and 1960s New York: Routledge, 2016, 192 pp., 32 b/w illus. $163 (cloth), ISBN 9781138806092; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 9781138104341 Two fascinating new books on early Republican and midcentury modernism in Turkey may help international audiences make sense of the recent turmoil featured prominently in the news about Turkey. Zeynep Kezer's long-awaited book Building Modern Turkey synthesizes some of the critical scholarship on how the Kemalist program shaped the nation-state in the years immediately following the establishment of the Republic in 1923. Kezer particularly emphasizes the destructive forces in this process, in addition to the constructive ones, by putting special emphasis on the transf...
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