This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping th...Loe edasi...
Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbuls modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gu...Loe edasi...
The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famo...Loe edasi...
This book explores the shifting meanings and functions of the Chora/Kariye Camii site over its long life. It provides a framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and tran...Loe edasi...
An interdisciplinary reassessment of a vital and understudied field. Material remains of houses and textual evidence for private living are crucial to our understanding of the architectural and decorative characteristics of the a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Aug-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316517604)
In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building practices, she examines how workers f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Koc University Press, ISBN-13: 9786057685711)
Four essays on the oldest church in Istanbul. The Monastery of Stoudios was built in the fifth century in Constantinople and for centuries constituted one of the most significant monasteries of the Byzantine capital. Today, only...Loe edasi...
This book explains President Erdogan’s controversial decision in terms of Turkey’s national, independent and Islamic politics, and as a response to the mosque massacre in Christchurch in March 2019 when his life was threatened by the gunman. ...Loe edasi...
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia (‘Holy Wisdom’), or Ayasofya, is one of the world’s most visited buildings. Yet, few visitors have any idea of its long and complex story, or why it has always been a place where history, religion and politics collide. In J...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198864936)
Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. Keser Kayaalp focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable...Loe edasi...
Starting from Spring 2014, VEKAM has been organizing yearly international symposiums to introduce various cultures that lived in Anatolia and support research in these fields of study. The symposium proceeding volume titled Cultural Encounters i...Loe edasi...
Nicholas V. Artamonoff left behind a photographic puzzle of over one thousand images. He was a student and engineer, who, while studying and living at Robert College in Istanbul, gained an appreciation for the citys history and culture. With hi...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the...Loe edasi...
In Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia Dweezil Vandekerckhove offers an account of the fortifications in the Armenian Kingdom (1198-1375). Through the examination of known and newly identified castles, this work increases the number of sites as...Loe edasi...
While European eclecticism is examined as a critical and experimental moment in western art history, little research has been conducted to provide an intellectual depth of field to the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they maneuvere...Loe edasi...
Krikor Balakian, Peter Balakian, Peter Balakian, Aram Arkun
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978802919)
From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, the city of Ani was the jewel of the Armenian kingdom, renowned far and wide for its magnificent buildings. Known as the city of 1001 churches, Ani was a center for artistic innovation, and its archite...Loe edasi...
