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MART-NİSAN 2005
 
MİMARLIK'tan

UIA 2005 İSTANBUL’A DOĞRU

MİMARLIK DÜNYASINDAN

DOSYA

  • SANATHAYAT
    Ali Artun

    İletişim Yayınları SANATHAYAT Dizisi Editörü

YAYINLAR

  • Yazılı Camiler
    Gürhan Tümer

    Prof.Dr., DEÜ Mimarlık Bölümü, Yayın Komitesi Üyesi



KÜNYE
ENGLISH SUMMARY

İNGİLİZCE ÖZET

NEWS

.. Towards UIA 2005 İstanbul

The keynote speakers to participate in the UIA 2005 İstanbul Congress are being announced progressively: Francesco Dal Co (Italy), Peter Eisenman (USA), Massimiliano Fuksas (Italy), Zaha Hadid (Britain), Zvi Hecker (Israel), Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Joseph Rykwert (USA), Moshe Safdie (Israel), Alexandros N. Tombazis (Greece), Robert Venturi (USA), Shigeru Ban (Japan), Charles Correa (India), Sumet Jumsai (Thailand), Kengo Kuma (Japan), Aziz Lazrak (Morocco), Fumihiko Maki (Japan), Mikhail Piotrovsky (Russia) and Ken Yeang (Malaysia).

By using the UIA 2005 İstanbul Forum opened on the Congress web site it is possible to contact the organizers and participants. The Forum now operates under three themes: “UIA 2005 Congress Theme Forum”, “Student Competition: Extreme” and “International Architecture Students Forum”.

UIA 2005 International Student Competition “Extreme: Creating Space in Extreme and Extraordinary Conditions” received around 2000 registrations from more than 70 countries. The projects for the competition will be submitted in June and the exhibition of all participating projects will be realized during the Congress.

Please note the contact information for the UIA 2005 İstanbul Congress Office in İstanbul:

A: İTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla, No:125 34437 Taksim İstanbul

T: +90 212 252 94 25 (pbx)

F: +90 212 252 94 24

For all information and news regarding the UIA 2005 İstanbul Congress: www.uia2005istanbul.org

.. From the World of Architecture

After the first İstanbul Architecture Festival on 4-9 October 2004, Arkitera Architecture Center announces that the festival will welcome people in its creative and lively atmosphere, for the second time, on 26 September-9 October 2005. This time the festival will be become an international platform, where projects and participants from all over the world will be invited to discuss, create and present works under the theme of “Water and Asphalt”. The theme aims to develop an architectural perspective towards the challenging position of land and water transportation routes in Turkey. For complete information on the first festival: www.mimarlikfestivali.org

The 17th International Congress of Aesthetics, which has been organized by the International Association of Aesthetics, will be realized in Turkey in 2007. The congress will be hosted by SANART Association of Aesthetics and Visual Culture, which has promoted visual arts by means of organizing exhibitions and international symposia in Turkey since its foundation in 1991. The decision for the realization of congress in Turkey was announced during the last congress convened in Rio de Janeiro in July 2004. The congress, which will take place on 9-13 July 2007 at the Middle East Technical University Congress Hall, will cover around 10 parallel sessions with the participation of international specialists and thinkers on art philosophy (aesthetics), criticism, art history and various cultural fields. The theme will be: “Aesthetics: The Bridge of Cultures”. For further information: www.sanart.org.tr

As organized by Arkitera Architecture Center, ARKIMEET is a series of conferences, in which internationally acclaimed architects are invited to Istanbul to share their recent works and thoughts on architecture with Turkish architects, scholars and students. According to first announcements, this years’ program will host Dutch architecture office MVRDV on 14 April, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas on 17 May and German architect Christoph Ingenhoven on 25 October 2005. For further information: www.arkimeet.com

COMPETITION

.. Bursa Muradiye Mosque Complex and Tombs: Multifunctional Entrance Unit

The results were announced for the competition opened by the Foundation for Improvement of Cultural Consciousness regarding the creation of a multifunctional entrance unit at the Bursa Muradiye Mosque Complex and Tombs. Among 55 projects the jury awarded five, and the grand award was given to the project of architect Gizem Ünek. The project, which consists of an exposed-concrete wall and wooden kiosk, represents the spiritual character of entrance and gives a temporary outlook that respects to the historical layers behind it.

CHAMBER’S BUILDINGS

.. A Successful Example of Re-use: Chamber of Architects Konya Chapter’s Building / Esra Yaldız, Yavuz Arat

Chamber of Architects of Turkey’s Chapters and Representative Offices are re-functioning historical buildings in their regions as their office and meeting spaces. This is an effort to contribute to the quality conservation of historical buildings in the country. A building in Konya, which is an example of 19th-century civilian architecture that lost its specific function due to changing conditions and needs in the society, was adapted to house office functions of the Konya Chapter of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey. The restoration project was worked out by architect Abdullah Naltekin, the President of Konya Chapter. In terms of its environmental and functional considerations, the re-use project can be evaluated as a successful example.

FILE

.. Current Urban Transformation Debates and Projects in Three Major Cities / editor: N.Müge Cengizkan

The debates regarding the transformation of existing building stock, urban tissues and inner-city areas have escalated with the Urban Transformation Draft Law during spring 2004. The growing intentions for urban transformation were concretized with the article of “Fields of Urban Transformation and Development” in the Municipality Law, which was brought into force two months ago and paved way for rapid generation of projects especially by Metropolitan Municipalities. The file includes written and visual information about the preliminary steps taken for intended transformation projects in three major cities of Turkey: Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir. At a quick glance to these projects, it can be seen that urban transformation is generally conceived as legalization of illegal or low-quality building stock. Furthermore, there is no strong concern for urban image and architectural identity; the new building activity has a monotonous character that is isolated from the remaining part of the city and the urban transformation processes are not organized openly to the views of citizens and public-interest parties. Zekai Görgülü, in his article “A Tool of Planning: Urban Transformation” says that the urban transformation should not be taken as a simple tool to enlarge public improvement shares in settled areas, but it should be considered as a richness based on renewal together with conservation, improvement, revitalization, gentrification and higher standardization of living. Murat Balamir, in his article “Actual Proposals and Models Regarding Urban Improvement and Transformation in Turkey” makes an extensive analysis about different models applicable to urban renewal and improvement. In “The Ideas Recalled by Urban Transformation”, Oktay Ekinci says that legal arrangements regarding urban transformation is not a new concept, but it has a 50-year history in Turkey with the arrangements such as Flat Ownership Law, Public Improvement Law and Tourism Center Law. In “Tourism Regions, New Cities and Transformation”, Mehmet Bozkurt expresses his views and evaluations about the expected transformation in some cities due to newly introduced tourist purposes, especially after the legal arrangements defining new “Cultural and Tourist Conservation and Development Regions”.

REFLECTIONS

.. Some Comments on Project Competitions / Doğan Tuna

The file “Competitions” in our issue 320 (Nov-Dec ‘04) has created a debate on the definitions, targets, means and problems of architectural project competitions. As a response to these discussions, Doğan Tuna says that competitions should not merely aim to achieve a ”defined final product”, but the aim should rather be to come up with “buildings that will contribute to fine arts and that will be exemplary for contemporary architecture in terms of their functionality, firmity and aesthetics”. Germany, which is one of the countries that operate competition processes very efficiently in these terms, is taken as a model during these discussions.

COMPETITION

.. Architectural and Urban Design of Gaziosmanpaşa Municipality Building and Surrounding Area

The results of the competition opened for the architectural and urban design of Gaziosmanpaşa Municipality Building and its surrounding in İstanbul are announced. Among 68 participating projects, three of them received the grand awards, five received honorary mentions and ten received mention awards. The project of Dilek Topuz Derman and Fırat Gülmez was announced as the first running project for the “moderate solution it proposed for the urban context and the new living areas it created, dense and positive usage of level differences, arrangement of underground facilities in such a way to receive adequate light and air, integrated organization of flexible and well-illuminated foyer, successful utilization of natural inputs, usage of pure and modern architectural language and limited intervention to the existing municipality building”.

CONSERVATION-REVITALIZATION

.. The Concept of Monument, Continuity of Identity and Change: The Experience of Gevher Nesibe Theological School / Burak Asiliskender, Hamiyet Gökmen Balcı, Neşe Yılmaz

In the case of urban design realized around the historical Gevher Nesibe Theological School in Kayseri, the article questions the concepts of “monument”, “identity” and “change”. The school complex built during the Seljuk period was exemplary for its period in terms of its function, which contained school facilities concentrating on rehabilitation and medical recovery issues. The complex, which reflects the living patterns in the Anatolian living and culture, is not only a historical building significant for its architectural identity, but also a spatial organization that gained monumental quality in the urban context. According to the authors, “although monuments are generally thought to resist urban dynamics that continuously force them to transform, they are actually centers that directly experience and demonstrate this change”. With this assumption, monuments should be one of the important inputs of urban design in historical fabric, as in the case of Gevher Nesibe Theological School.

PUBLICATION REVIEW

.. SANATHAYAT (ARTLIFE) / Ali Artun

A series of books on art criticism are being published by İletişim Publications under the theme “SANATHAYAT” (ARTLIFE) during the last two years. As the editor of the book series, Ali Artun expresses his views about the current position of art criticism in the world and explains the reasons behind the selection of specific books to take place in these publication series. Among the foreign books published in Turkish are, “The Painter of Modern Life” by Charles Baudelaire, “The Conflict in Modern Culture” by Georg Simmel, “Theory of the Avantgarde” by Peter Bürger and “Design and Crime” by Hal Foster. The Turkish versions of these books are also accompanied with some introductory texts providing contemporary perspective to the discussions. SANATHAYAT recently focuses on the issue of “museum” beginning from 2004. It published in Turkish, Wendy Shaw’s book “Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire” and also another edited book containing critical texts on museum’s relation with power, culture industry and identity politics from French Revolution up until today.

MEA ARCHITECTURA MEA CULPA

.. Written Mosques / Gürhan Tümer

“There are writings on mosques: Scientific articles, artistic descriptions, poems, very big, huge books… The examples are the writings of Doğan Kuban and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. In the mosque buildings, on the other hand, there are calligraphers’ works inscribed on the domes or hung on columns with big plates. You can read the word “Allah” (God) or “Kelime-i Tevhid” (the testimony of God’s unity) on these inscriptions. Then, in big mosques, “Welcome Ramadan” it writes on the belts extending just between two minarets. Among all these examples, writing and mosque are together, yet separate from each other. You can cover the inscription on the dome with paint; you can bring down the belts after Ramadan. But, mosque is still in the place. You should notice that it is not the same with those mosques created by writing. Their essence is writing. When the writing is erased, the mosque also disappears because it is built up not with stone, brick or marble, but with letters…”

MİMARLIK . 322 . March - April 2005

English Summary by Tuğçe Selin Tağmat

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