The Balyans

Author : Murat Gül
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781786722300

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Architecture and the Turkish City by Murat Gül Pdf

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 Istanbul's modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gül highlights the dynamics of political and social change in Turkey from the late-Ottoman period until today. Looking beyond pure architectural styles or the physical manifestations of Istanbul's cultural landscape, he offers critical insight into how Turkish attempts to modernise have affected both the city and its population. Charting the diverse forces evident in Istanbul's urban fabric, the book examines late Ottoman reforms, the Turkish Republic's turn westward for inspiration, Cold War alliances and the AK Party's reaffirmation of cultural ties with the Middle East and the Balkans. Telltale signs of these moments – revivalist architecture drawing on Ottoman and Seljuk styles, 1930s Art Deco, post-war International Style buildings and the proliferation of shopping malls, luxurious gated residences and high-rise towers, for example – are analysed and illustrated in extensive detail. Connecting this rich history to present-day Istanbul, whose urban development is characterised anew by intense social stratification, the book will appeal to researchers of Turkey, its architecture and urban planning.

Author : Büke Uras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture, Ottoman
ISBN : 6055495678

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The Balyans by Büke Uras Pdf

Author : Susan Surette,Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350067608

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Craft and Heritage by Susan Surette,Elaine Cheasley Paterson Pdf

This collection of 19 original essays argues for a critical and sustained engagement between the fields of craft and heritage. The book's interdisciplinary and international array of authors consider how heritage and craft institutions, policies, practices and audiences encounter the constraints and opportunities of production, recognition and exhibition. Case studies spanning 125 years raise and address questions concerning authenticity and commodification, innovation and improvisation, diasporas and decolonization, global economies and national and professional identities. Authors also analyse mechanisms through which craft mobilises and has been harnessed by heritage processes and designations. Examples range from an Irish village at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the role of chronopolitics in contemporary Vietnamese pottery, to the invisibility of crochet within Swedish heritagisation processes and the application of game theory in a ceramics museum. With section one considering citizenship and identity, section two sustainability and section three dynamic craft in cultural institutions, Craft and Heritage interrogates how craft objects, makers and processes intersect with current heritage concerns and practices.

Author : Alyson Wharton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857738134

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The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople by Alyson Wharton Pdf

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 famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which are regarded as masterpieces of their period – including the Dolmabahçe Palace (built between 1843 and 1856), parts of the Topkap? Palace, the Ç?ra?an Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque. Forging a unique style based around European contemporary architecture but with distinctive Ottoman flourishes, the family is an integral part of Ottoman history. As Alyson Wharton's beautifully illustrated book reveals, the Balyan's own history, of falling in and out of favour with increasingly autocratic Sultans, serves as a record of courtly power in the Ottoman era and is uniquely intertwined with the history of Istanbul itself.

Author : AhmetA. Ersoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351576017

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Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary by AhmetA. Ersoy Pdf

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 maneuvered through the nineteenth century?s vast inventory of available styles and embarked on a revivalist/Orientalist program they identified as the ?Ottoman Renaissance.? Ahmet A. Ersoy?s book examines the complex historicist discourse underlying this belated ?renaissance? through a close reading of a text conceived as the movement?s canonizing manifesto: the Usul-i Mi?mari-i ?Osmani [The Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture] (Istanbul, 1873). In its translocal, cross-disciplinary scope, Ersoy?s work explores the creative ways in which the Ottoman authors straddled the art-historical mainstream and their new, self-orientalizing aesthetics of locality. The study reveals how Orientalism was embraced by its very objects, the self-styled ?Orientals? of the modern world, as a marker of authenticity, and a strategically located aesthetic tool to project universally recognizable images of cultural difference. Rejecting the lesser, subsidiary status ascribed to non-western Orientalisms, Ersoy?s work contributes to recent, post-Saidian directions in the study of cultural representation that resituate the field of Orientalism beyond its polaristic core, recognizing its cross-cultural potential as a polyvalent discourse.

Author : Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477303597

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Science Among the Ottomans by Miri Shefer-Mossensohn Pdf

Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished. In the first book on this topic in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and culture created a fertile environment that fostered diverse scientific activity. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the inventions of others to their own needs and improving them. For example, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electric telegraph system in the world; indeed, the Ottomans were among the era’s most advanced nations with regard to modern communication infrastructure. To substantiate her claims about science in the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn studies patterns of learning; state involvement in technological activities; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, consumed, and altered scientific practices. The results reveal Ottoman participation in science to have been a dynamic force that helped sustain the six-hundred-year empire.

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623710187

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Istanbul by Peter Clark Pdf

Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial and artistic city, the largest in Turkey and, after Moscow, the largest in Europe. With its location as a port, Istanbul has always absorbed ideas, people and styles from north, south, east and west. Its multiculturalism is a microcosm of the world’s. Neither standard guide nor conventional history, this is rather a celebration of an extraordinary city, reviewing its imperial histories and exploring some of its lesser known corners.

Author : N. Jayaram,Satish Saberwal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022373695

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Social Conflict by N. Jayaram,Satish Saberwal Pdf

The Readings In This Volume Spread Over Several Core Areas In The Disciplines Of Sociology And Social Anthropology And Have Been Drawn From International Scholarship. It Reveals The Manner In Which Societies Function Through A Systematic Study Of Conflicts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015073110895

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Anthropos by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter H. Christensen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780300225648

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Germany and the Ottoman Railways by Peter H. Christensen Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Dates, Transcription, and Format -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE -- Chapter 1. Politics -- Chapter 2. Geography -- Chapter 3. Topography -- Chapter 4. Archaeology -- PART TWO -- Chapter 5. Construction -- Chapter 6. Hochbau -- Chapter 7. Monuments -- Chapter 8. Urbanism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004144422

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Islamic Art in the 19th Century by Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit Pdf

This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.

Author : Luigi Andrea Berto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000294255

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Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630 - 1923 by Luigi Andrea Berto Pdf

This book examines the status that rulers of one faith conferred onto their subjects belonging to a different one, how the rulers handled relationships with them, and the interactions between subjects of the Muslim and Christian religions. The chronological arc of this volume spans from the first conquests by the Arabs in the Near East in the 630s to the exchange between Turkey and Greece, in 1923, of the Orthodox Christians and Muslims residing in their territories. Through organized topics, Berto analyzes both similarities and differences in Christian and Muslim lands and emphasizes how coexistences and conflicts took directions that were not always inevitable. Primary sources are used to examine the mentality of those who composed them and of their audiences. In doing so, the book considers the nuances and all the features of the multifaceted experiences of Christian subjects under Muslim rule and of Muslim subjects under Christian rule. Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the relationships between Christians and Muslims, religious minorities, and the Near East and the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century.

Author : Stig Toft Madsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015037419234

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State, Society, and Human Rights in South Asia by Stig Toft Madsen Pdf

PART 1: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOUTH ASIA

Author : Arvind N. Agrawal,T. V. Rao
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789354926891

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Leaders in the Making by Arvind N. Agrawal,T. V. Rao Pdf

Leaders in the Making provides in-depth interviews of thirty HR leaders (drawn from public as well as private sectors), including stalwarts like Santrupt Misra, Rajeev Dubey, Aquil Busrai, Anil Sachdev, N.S. Rajan and Anil Khandelwal. These life stories provide highlights of early childhood, education and career over the years. They include the points of inflexion, major influencers and lessons learnt to become who they became. The authors provide an analysis of these thirty stories to establish a pattern of the life journeys, competencies and values these leaders displayed. The book has excellent lessons for parents, heads of schools and colleges, teachers, HR leaders and CEOs. The authors have included self-help tools to assess competencies, values and the careers of readers to plan for self-development.

Author : Ayşe Osmanoğlu
Publisher : Ayşe Osmanoğlu
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781916361416

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The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus by Ayşe Osmanoğlu Pdf

Brothers bound by blood but fated to be enemies. Can their Empire survive or will it crumble into myth? Istanbul, 1903. Since his younger brother usurped the Imperial throne, Sultan Murad V has been imprisoned with his family for nearly thirty years. The new century heralds immense change. Anarchy and revolution threaten the established order. Powerful enemies plot the fall of the once mighty Ottoman Empire. Only death will bring freedom to the enlightened former sultan. But the waters of the Bosphorus run deep: assassins lurk in shadows, intrigue abounds, and scandal in the family threatens to bring destruction of all that he holds dear… For over six hundred years the history of the Turks and their vast and powerful Empire has been inextricably linked to the Ottoman dynasty. Can this extraordinary family, and the Empire they built, survive into the new century? Set against the magnificent backdrop of Imperial Istanbul, The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus is a spellbinding tale of love, duty and sacrifice. Evocative and utterly beguiling, The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus is perfect for fans of Colin Falconer, Kate Morton and Philippa Gregory. "A richly woven carpet of a book." Historical Novel Society "With intelligence and sensitivity, Ayşe recreates the dramatic story of our family." Kenize Mourad, author of the international best-seller Regards from the Dead Princess