IN-PERSON: Prague – Section A
Abstract
Anatolia has been a homeland for many civilizations through the ages. This inhabitance of diverse civilizations in different regions and eras enriched Anatolia’s multi-layered and multi-cultured character primarily based on vernacular architectures. Vernacular architecture, peculiar to the locality, is shaped depending on the physical, social and cultural characteristics. Therefore, the Anatolian vernacular architecture embodies a broad context to understand the past societies’ lifestyles, traditions and social practices within the richness of historical settlements. Furthermore, vernacular houses are the most significant references that enable us to perceive these diverging layers. This study aims to reveal the cultural interaction and continuity transmitted through vernacular houses of Anatolia within different geographical, climatic, topographic, and social features. Although the vernacular housing in Anatolia dates to the prehistoric period, the surviving ones are mainly dated to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Focusing on this era, the scope of this study is to present a network of correlations visualized via newly introduced conceptual re-mappings by specifically determined parameters based on the relationship with the surrounding environment, traditional life patterns, spatial organization and usage, and local building materials. The re-mapping method introducing the visualization of the data obtained from these examinations and their mutual interactions is believed to emphasize the richness of local traditions and their relations to Anatolian vernacular housing. Moreover, the intertwined multi-layered pattern of historical, cultural, social and architectural accumulations of vernacular housing from the past to the present; will create meaningful references for new layers to be created in the future.
Yekta Özgüven received her BArch degree in Architecture (1999), MSc degree (2002) and PhD degree in Architectural History and Theory Program (2009) at Yıldız Technical University. She worked as research assistant at Yıldız Technical University between 2002 and 2011. Since 2011, she has been working as a full-time faculty member (Assoc. Prof. Dr.) at Maltepe University, Faculty of Architecture an Design. Her research areas are architectural and urban history, women architects, urban culture and public spaces, late Ottoman architecture, early Republican architecture in Turkey, and Istanbul.
Asena Kumsal Şen Bayram received her BArch degree in Architecture (2007), MSc (2009) and PhD degree in Architectural Design Program (2015) at Istanbul Technical University. During her graduate studies, besides her Research and Development projects, she worked on various architectural design and construction projects as co-owner, project manager and designer in her R&D company stated in ARITechnopark at Istanbul Technical University. Since 2019 she has been working as a full-time faculty member at Maltepe University, Faculty of Architecture and Design. Her current research interests are digital design and fabrication techniques in architecture and design education.
Merve Aslı Kara Yüksel graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture in 2013. In 2015, she completed her master’s thesis titled ‘Antalya Kaleiçi Ömer Lütfü Lülü Mansion Restoration Project’ in the Restoration Program of ITU, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. She took part in the restoration project of Edirne Selimiye Mosque in Avunduk Architecture between 2015-2017. She has been working as research assistant at Maltepe University since 2017. In 2019, she started her doctorate in ITU Graduate School Restoration program and she is currently continuing her doctoral thesis. Her studies focus on the preservation of urban and rural cultural heritage.
Doğan Zafer Ertürk has been working as a senior teaching staff in various universities for more than fifty years in Architectural Design in different institutions such as ITU (Turkey), TTech (USA), Lund (Sweden), and Salford (UK). Also, he is a practicing architect. He is the designer of an Inclusive Museum (Caiseria, Turkey), a Swimming Pool, and a Student Centre (Norden Cyprus). His research interest has focused on vernacular architecture and ancient cities and settlements. He has been a member of the Nominator’s Committee of the Greater Japon Prize of Japan Foundation since 1999.
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Friday 30th June, 2023