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Papers by Eliana Martinelli

Research paper thumbnail of Shared landscape, transposed landscape. Cemeterial settlements of the Islamic Mediterranean

Research paper thumbnail of Redesigning Istanbul: Aldo Rossi and the Project for Üsküdar Square

Research paper thumbnail of From Sedad Eldem to Turgut Cansever. The legacy of a School of Architecture

The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectura... more The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledge unfolding within a School of Architecture. The aim is to highlight the principles that, by the transmission of thought from a Master to a Scholar, have contributed to the development of a Turkish Architecture School. In this specific example, I would like to analyse the influence of Sedad Eldem (1908-1988) teaching method in the work of Turgut Cansever (1921-2009). The architecture of Turgut Cansever is morphologically distant from that of Sedad Eldem and draws on a very wide semantic repertoire, which cannot be reducible just to the influence of a School of Architecture. However, the experience in the Seminars on National Architectural Style and the academic and professional training with Sedad Eldem had a decisive role in the formulation of the theoretical thought of Turgut Cansever, and this influence is clearly legible in his works of architecture. Two transmission subjec...

Research paper thumbnail of Review: Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space by Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, Richard Ingersoll

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Semantica del Tipo. La Sede della Società Storica Turca di Turgut Cansever / Semantics of Type. The headquarters of the Turkish Historical Society by Turgut Cansever

Firenze Architettura 2.2019, 2019

The headquarters of the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, designed as of 1951 and built betwe... more The headquarters of the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, designed as of 1951 and built between 1962
and 1966 by Turgut Cansever and Ertur Yener, is an emblematic building in Turkey and throughout the Islamic
world. A modern fortress that safeguards and represents a plural culture, it is the result of the contamination
between types and figures of Ottoman architecture which bear multiple meanings.

Research paper thumbnail of Educazione e conservazione architettonica in Turchia: Cansever e Ruskin en regard.

RESTAURO ARCHEOLOGICO, vol. 1/2019, 2019

The National Architectural Seminars, established by Sedad Eldem in 1932, represented the beginnin... more The National Architectural Seminars, established by Sedad Eldem in 1932, represented the beginning of a new era in teaching architecture in Turkey, influencing other parts of the Islamic world too: instead of looking at Western spatial models to emulate, the aim is to constitute a specific Turkish architectural vocabulary. After the Second World War, this experience gave rise to the Department for Conservation of Architectural Heritage, created by the combined efforts of several schools. The generation of architects of that time, including Turgut Cansever, encouraged new politics on conservation and rehabilitation.
In the last decades, architectural teaching in Turkey turned to Western models, losing its specificity. At this moment, it becomes more urgent to wonder: is architectural education value-free or, as Spiro Kostof wrote, “to be a good architect is like being a good citizen”?
Starting from this question, the essay aims to compare Cansever’s Islamic approach with Ruskin’s theoretical contribution, focusing on the issue of ethics and the moral implication of art, in relation to the notion of nature. In Cansever’s thought, the architect’s responsibility in educating the next generations and conserving the ancient city and architecture through the design process, is pointed out.

Research paper thumbnail of Progetto come risarcimento. L’esperienza di Turgut Cansever in Turchia.

Maestri e luoghi, maestri e città - Quaderni del Dottorato in Composizione Architettonica - volume 2, 2019

I saggi qui raccolti sono l'esito dell'attività della ricerca scientifica svolta da docenti, rice... more I saggi qui raccolti sono l'esito dell'attività della ricerca scientifica svolta da docenti, ricercatori, dottori e dottorandi, e discussa all'interno del programma del curriculum in Progettazione Architettonica e urbana della Scuola di Dottorato in Architettura per i cicli XXX, XXXI, XXXII e XXXIII.

Research paper thumbnail of Aldo Rossi e il progetto per la piazza di Üsküdar a Istanbul

EDA. ESEMPI DI ARCHITETTURA, vol. 1/2019, 2019

It is impossible to describe Istanbul without revealing its life, wrote Le Corbusier in his carne... more It is impossible to describe Istanbul without revealing its life, wrote Le Corbusier in his carnets. In the same way, describing Aldo Rossi's project for Istanbul means to reveal a part of the architect's biography. In 1971, on the road to Istanbul, Rossi was involved in a serious car crash, a turning point in his life. The awareness of the body's osteology comes from that accident and the ensuing pain and will lead to the cemetery of Modena project. Once completed, Rossi resumed his journey to Istanbul, as a continuation of the same experience. Therefore, Istanbul represented both the purpose and the end of his journey, one that became a project. In 1987 Rossi have the opportunity to work on Üsküdar, the gateway to Asia looking towards the Bosphorus. Initially, he considers the geographical description of an old French guide. The definition of Üsküdar as an amphitheater is used as an architectural reference to explain the structure of the landscape, and at the same time the extraordinary life of the site. For Rossi, architecture and its site are one and the same. The architect perfectly understands the sense of the city of Istanbul, conceived as simultaneity of forms conflicting in space and time. Here "juxtaposition" and "montage" are not merely keys to reading, but constructive principles. Üsküdar Square project is barely known and apparently distant from Turkish culture. However, the comparison with the original urban design competition call and the archival documents and drawings, allows a better understanding of Rossi's intentions. Through the use of some archetypal figures, Rossi goes beyond the will expressed by the municipality to reconfigure the square in a purely Western sense. With this design, he looks instead for universal values, which are recognizable expression of a city that features several cultures.

Research paper thumbnail of Architettura tra analogia e archeologia

Fernand Pouillon Costruzione, Città, Paesaggio, 2019

Giulio Barazzetta, architetto, fondatore e associato sino al 2017 dello studio 'SBG architetti' (... more Giulio Barazzetta, architetto, fondatore e associato sino al 2017 dello studio 'SBG architetti' (www.sbgarchitetti.it);

Research paper thumbnail of Ri-costruire il Patrimonio. Esperienze di progetto nella Tunisia del dopoguerra.

Il progetto di architettura come intersezione di saperi. Per una nozione rinnovata di Patrimonio, ProArch Ass. Naz. docenti di Progettazione Architettonica, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of La tradizione della modernità in Turchia. Da Sedad Eldem a Turgut Cansever.

Altre modernità. Energie etiche per il progetto , 2018

La collana dà forma e riconoscibilità ad alcune sezioni di ricerca del Dipartimento di Culture de... more La collana dà forma e riconoscibilità ad alcune sezioni di ricerca del Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto dell'Università Iuav di Venezia. Le tematiche affrontate sono riconducibili a diversi gruppi di studio pluridisciplinari. Il progetto come ipotesi di trasformazione del mondo, attraverso lo sviluppo e l'approfondimento delle conoscenze verificate da pratiche sperimentali, è il terreno privilegiato di dibattito. I quaderni fanno riferimento a quattro parole-chiave che indicano possibili luoghi di confronto collettivo. Al Veneto, come ambito territoriale privilegiato, rimandano le prove su campo delle attività di sperimentazione progettuale. Al patrimonio, in rapporto alle sensibilità emergenti nel campo delle risorse non rinnovabili e del paesaggio in una visione ampia e problematica della patrimonializzazione. All'immaginario, riferito a quei processi di elaborazione del progetto che nel mobilitare necessariamente sedimentazioni di valori, figure, memorie, concrezioni visive e narrative, costituiscono "immaginari" plurali e sempre culturalmente situati. Ai territori altri, come dialogo, in una dimensione internazionale, di luoghi e situazioni esito di storie, concezioni antropologiche e culturali anche dissimili dalle nostre.

Research paper thumbnail of Turgut Cansever in Istanbul, Identity and Utopia of Urban Design

Utopia and the project for the city and territory, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of From Sedad Eldem to Turgut Cansever: the legacy of a School of Architecture

International Journal of Architecture and Urban Studies, 2017

The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledg... more The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledge unfolding within a School of Architecture. The aim is to highlight the principles that, by the transmission of thought from a Master to a Scholar, have contributed to the development of a Turkish Architecture School. In this specific example, I would like to analyse the influence of Sedad Eldem (1908-1988) teaching method in the work of Turgut Cansever (1921-2009).
The architecture of Turgut Cansever is morphologically distant from that of Sedad Eldem and draws on a very wide semantic repertoire, which cannot be reducible just to the influence of a School of Architecture. However, the experience in the Seminars on National Architectural Style and the academic and professional training with Sedad Eldem had a decisive role in the formulation of the theoretical thought of Turgut Cansever, and this influence is clearly legible in his works of architecture.
Two transmission subjects, which played a central role in the formation of this idea of school, in particular can be outlined; namely the notions of "type" and "building process”. Eldem in his texts, as Türk evi o Yapı, has deployed a range of possible proposals about the types and the architectural elements. These were part of the same tradition, but at one time made possible the development of a new architecture. "Type" and "building process" are, in this idea of School, part of the same cultural legacy, based not on the imitation of models, but on valuable operating tools to work in the city.
The type has to do with the transmissibility of the settlement and urban facts and is linked to the concept of identity. The very notion of identity admits the variation within a common formal repertoire, therefore the use of types in architecture allows a great operational freedom, in terms of architectural composition. Cansever resorts in his architecture both to the variation on the same type (as in the Demir Village in Bodrum, where the architect works through the investigation of the local settlement types), and to the typological contamination (as in the Turkish Historical Society building in Ankara).
Even more evident in terms of teaching transmission from Eldem to Cansever is the conception of architecture as "building art". The character of the building process, in which standard elements are joined together to create a structurally and compositionally unitary system, is a feature widely developed in the work of Cansever. Thus the reasons that lead the type into a concluded form are above all constructive ones, while the settlement choices are closely linked to the site.
In this sense the effectiveness of a teaching transmission can be evaluated not on the formal emulation, rejected several times by Eldem himself as a matter of fashion, but on the possibility of forming a critical ability, through a working method based on the study of the project in relation to the site, analysing case by case the possible success of the proposed solutions.

Research paper thumbnail of Turgut Cansever, an interpretation of the Turkish city

Turkey Studies ’16 Proceedings, Özgür Öztürk DAKAM Yayınları, Istanbul , 2016

Research paper thumbnail of From Sedad Eldem to Turgut Cansever. The legacy of a School of Architecture

Archtheo ’16 Proceedings, Özgür Öztürk DAKAM Yayınları, Istanbul, 2016

The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledg... more The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledge unfolding within a School of Architecture. The aim is to highlight the principles that, by the transmission of thought from a Master to a Scholar, have contributed to the development of a Turkish Architecture School. In this specific example, I would like to analyse the influence of Sedad Eldem (1908-1988) teaching method in the work of Turgut Cansever (1921-2009). The architecture of Turgut Cansever is morphologically distant from that of Sedad Eldem and draws on a very wide semantic repertoire, which cannot be reducible just to the influence of a School of Architecture. However, the experience in the Seminars on National Architectural Style and the academic and professional training with Sedad Eldem had a decisive role in the formulation of the theoretical thought of Turgut Cansever, and this influence is clearly legible in his works of architecture. Two transmission subjects, which played a central role in the formation of this idea of school, in particular can be outlined; namely the notions of "type" and "building process”. Eldem in his texts, as Türk evi o Yapı, has deployed a range of possible proposals about the types and the architectural elements. These were part of the same tradition, but at one time made possible the development of a new architecture. "Type" and "building process" are, in this idea of School, part of the same cultural legacy, based not on the imitation of models, but on valuable operating tools to work in the city. The type has to do with the transmissibility of the settlement and urban facts and is linked to the concept of identity. The very notion of identity admits the variation within a common formal repertoire, therefore the use of types in architecture allows a great operational freedom, in terms of architectural composition. Cansever resorts in his architecture both to the variation on the same type (as in the Demir Village in Bodrum, where the architect works through the investigation of the local settlement types), and to the typological contamination (as in the Turkish Historical Society building in Ankara). Even more evident in terms of teaching transmission from Eldem to Cansever is the conception of architecture as "building art". The character of the building process, in which standard elements are joined together to create a structurally and compositionally unitary system, is a feature widely developed in the work of Cansever. Thus the reasons that lead the type into a concluded form are above all constructive ones, while the settlement choices are closely linked to the site. In this sense the effectiveness of a teaching transmission can be evaluated not on the formal emulation, rejected several times by Eldem himself as a matter of fashion, but on the possibility of forming a critical ability, through a working method based on the study of the project in relation to the site, analysing case by case the possible success of the proposed solutions.

Research paper thumbnail of The Spinnerei complex in Leipzig: from cotton mill to international cultural center

Book Reviews by Eliana Martinelli

Research paper thumbnail of Ivan Leonidov. Ascesa e caduta

Firenze Architettura 2/2018, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A genealogy of modern architecture: comparative critical analysis of built form

Firenze architettura, 2017

Review of Kenneth Frampton, “A genealogy of modern architecture: comparative critical analysis of... more Review of Kenneth Frampton, “A genealogy of modern architecture: comparative critical analysis of built form”, edited by Ashley Simone, Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Oswald Mathias Ungers a Treviri. Due musei

Firenze architettura, 2017

Review of Martina D’Alessandro, “Oswald Mathias Ungers a Treviri. Due musei" , Bononia University... more Review of Martina D’Alessandro, “Oswald Mathias Ungers a Treviri. Due musei" , Bononia University Press, Bologna 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Streets: critical perspectives on public space

Firenze Architettura, 2017

Review of “Streets : critical perspectives on public space”, edited by Z. Çelik, D. Favro, R. Ing... more Review of “Streets : critical perspectives on public space”, edited by Z. Çelik, D. Favro, R. Ingersoll, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Shared landscape, transposed landscape. Cemeterial settlements of the Islamic Mediterranean

Research paper thumbnail of Redesigning Istanbul: Aldo Rossi and the Project for Üsküdar Square

Research paper thumbnail of From Sedad Eldem to Turgut Cansever. The legacy of a School of Architecture

The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectura... more The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledge unfolding within a School of Architecture. The aim is to highlight the principles that, by the transmission of thought from a Master to a Scholar, have contributed to the development of a Turkish Architecture School. In this specific example, I would like to analyse the influence of Sedad Eldem (1908-1988) teaching method in the work of Turgut Cansever (1921-2009). The architecture of Turgut Cansever is morphologically distant from that of Sedad Eldem and draws on a very wide semantic repertoire, which cannot be reducible just to the influence of a School of Architecture. However, the experience in the Seminars on National Architectural Style and the academic and professional training with Sedad Eldem had a decisive role in the formulation of the theoretical thought of Turgut Cansever, and this influence is clearly legible in his works of architecture. Two transmission subjec...

Research paper thumbnail of Review: Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space by Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, Richard Ingersoll

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Semantica del Tipo. La Sede della Società Storica Turca di Turgut Cansever / Semantics of Type. The headquarters of the Turkish Historical Society by Turgut Cansever

Firenze Architettura 2.2019, 2019

The headquarters of the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, designed as of 1951 and built betwe... more The headquarters of the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, designed as of 1951 and built between 1962
and 1966 by Turgut Cansever and Ertur Yener, is an emblematic building in Turkey and throughout the Islamic
world. A modern fortress that safeguards and represents a plural culture, it is the result of the contamination
between types and figures of Ottoman architecture which bear multiple meanings.

Research paper thumbnail of Educazione e conservazione architettonica in Turchia: Cansever e Ruskin en regard.

RESTAURO ARCHEOLOGICO, vol. 1/2019, 2019

The National Architectural Seminars, established by Sedad Eldem in 1932, represented the beginnin... more The National Architectural Seminars, established by Sedad Eldem in 1932, represented the beginning of a new era in teaching architecture in Turkey, influencing other parts of the Islamic world too: instead of looking at Western spatial models to emulate, the aim is to constitute a specific Turkish architectural vocabulary. After the Second World War, this experience gave rise to the Department for Conservation of Architectural Heritage, created by the combined efforts of several schools. The generation of architects of that time, including Turgut Cansever, encouraged new politics on conservation and rehabilitation.
In the last decades, architectural teaching in Turkey turned to Western models, losing its specificity. At this moment, it becomes more urgent to wonder: is architectural education value-free or, as Spiro Kostof wrote, “to be a good architect is like being a good citizen”?
Starting from this question, the essay aims to compare Cansever’s Islamic approach with Ruskin’s theoretical contribution, focusing on the issue of ethics and the moral implication of art, in relation to the notion of nature. In Cansever’s thought, the architect’s responsibility in educating the next generations and conserving the ancient city and architecture through the design process, is pointed out.

Research paper thumbnail of Progetto come risarcimento. L’esperienza di Turgut Cansever in Turchia.

Maestri e luoghi, maestri e città - Quaderni del Dottorato in Composizione Architettonica - volume 2, 2019

I saggi qui raccolti sono l'esito dell'attività della ricerca scientifica svolta da docenti, rice... more I saggi qui raccolti sono l'esito dell'attività della ricerca scientifica svolta da docenti, ricercatori, dottori e dottorandi, e discussa all'interno del programma del curriculum in Progettazione Architettonica e urbana della Scuola di Dottorato in Architettura per i cicli XXX, XXXI, XXXII e XXXIII.

Research paper thumbnail of Aldo Rossi e il progetto per la piazza di Üsküdar a Istanbul

EDA. ESEMPI DI ARCHITETTURA, vol. 1/2019, 2019

It is impossible to describe Istanbul without revealing its life, wrote Le Corbusier in his carne... more It is impossible to describe Istanbul without revealing its life, wrote Le Corbusier in his carnets. In the same way, describing Aldo Rossi's project for Istanbul means to reveal a part of the architect's biography. In 1971, on the road to Istanbul, Rossi was involved in a serious car crash, a turning point in his life. The awareness of the body's osteology comes from that accident and the ensuing pain and will lead to the cemetery of Modena project. Once completed, Rossi resumed his journey to Istanbul, as a continuation of the same experience. Therefore, Istanbul represented both the purpose and the end of his journey, one that became a project. In 1987 Rossi have the opportunity to work on Üsküdar, the gateway to Asia looking towards the Bosphorus. Initially, he considers the geographical description of an old French guide. The definition of Üsküdar as an amphitheater is used as an architectural reference to explain the structure of the landscape, and at the same time the extraordinary life of the site. For Rossi, architecture and its site are one and the same. The architect perfectly understands the sense of the city of Istanbul, conceived as simultaneity of forms conflicting in space and time. Here "juxtaposition" and "montage" are not merely keys to reading, but constructive principles. Üsküdar Square project is barely known and apparently distant from Turkish culture. However, the comparison with the original urban design competition call and the archival documents and drawings, allows a better understanding of Rossi's intentions. Through the use of some archetypal figures, Rossi goes beyond the will expressed by the municipality to reconfigure the square in a purely Western sense. With this design, he looks instead for universal values, which are recognizable expression of a city that features several cultures.

Research paper thumbnail of Architettura tra analogia e archeologia

Fernand Pouillon Costruzione, Città, Paesaggio, 2019

Giulio Barazzetta, architetto, fondatore e associato sino al 2017 dello studio 'SBG architetti' (... more Giulio Barazzetta, architetto, fondatore e associato sino al 2017 dello studio 'SBG architetti' (www.sbgarchitetti.it);

Research paper thumbnail of Ri-costruire il Patrimonio. Esperienze di progetto nella Tunisia del dopoguerra.

Il progetto di architettura come intersezione di saperi. Per una nozione rinnovata di Patrimonio, ProArch Ass. Naz. docenti di Progettazione Architettonica, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of La tradizione della modernità in Turchia. Da Sedad Eldem a Turgut Cansever.

Altre modernità. Energie etiche per il progetto , 2018

La collana dà forma e riconoscibilità ad alcune sezioni di ricerca del Dipartimento di Culture de... more La collana dà forma e riconoscibilità ad alcune sezioni di ricerca del Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto dell'Università Iuav di Venezia. Le tematiche affrontate sono riconducibili a diversi gruppi di studio pluridisciplinari. Il progetto come ipotesi di trasformazione del mondo, attraverso lo sviluppo e l'approfondimento delle conoscenze verificate da pratiche sperimentali, è il terreno privilegiato di dibattito. I quaderni fanno riferimento a quattro parole-chiave che indicano possibili luoghi di confronto collettivo. Al Veneto, come ambito territoriale privilegiato, rimandano le prove su campo delle attività di sperimentazione progettuale. Al patrimonio, in rapporto alle sensibilità emergenti nel campo delle risorse non rinnovabili e del paesaggio in una visione ampia e problematica della patrimonializzazione. All'immaginario, riferito a quei processi di elaborazione del progetto che nel mobilitare necessariamente sedimentazioni di valori, figure, memorie, concrezioni visive e narrative, costituiscono "immaginari" plurali e sempre culturalmente situati. Ai territori altri, come dialogo, in una dimensione internazionale, di luoghi e situazioni esito di storie, concezioni antropologiche e culturali anche dissimili dalle nostre.

Research paper thumbnail of Turgut Cansever in Istanbul, Identity and Utopia of Urban Design

Utopia and the project for the city and territory, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of From Sedad Eldem to Turgut Cansever: the legacy of a School of Architecture

International Journal of Architecture and Urban Studies, 2017

The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledg... more The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledge unfolding within a School of Architecture. The aim is to highlight the principles that, by the transmission of thought from a Master to a Scholar, have contributed to the development of a Turkish Architecture School. In this specific example, I would like to analyse the influence of Sedad Eldem (1908-1988) teaching method in the work of Turgut Cansever (1921-2009).
The architecture of Turgut Cansever is morphologically distant from that of Sedad Eldem and draws on a very wide semantic repertoire, which cannot be reducible just to the influence of a School of Architecture. However, the experience in the Seminars on National Architectural Style and the academic and professional training with Sedad Eldem had a decisive role in the formulation of the theoretical thought of Turgut Cansever, and this influence is clearly legible in his works of architecture.
Two transmission subjects, which played a central role in the formation of this idea of school, in particular can be outlined; namely the notions of "type" and "building process”. Eldem in his texts, as Türk evi o Yapı, has deployed a range of possible proposals about the types and the architectural elements. These were part of the same tradition, but at one time made possible the development of a new architecture. "Type" and "building process" are, in this idea of School, part of the same cultural legacy, based not on the imitation of models, but on valuable operating tools to work in the city.
The type has to do with the transmissibility of the settlement and urban facts and is linked to the concept of identity. The very notion of identity admits the variation within a common formal repertoire, therefore the use of types in architecture allows a great operational freedom, in terms of architectural composition. Cansever resorts in his architecture both to the variation on the same type (as in the Demir Village in Bodrum, where the architect works through the investigation of the local settlement types), and to the typological contamination (as in the Turkish Historical Society building in Ankara).
Even more evident in terms of teaching transmission from Eldem to Cansever is the conception of architecture as "building art". The character of the building process, in which standard elements are joined together to create a structurally and compositionally unitary system, is a feature widely developed in the work of Cansever. Thus the reasons that lead the type into a concluded form are above all constructive ones, while the settlement choices are closely linked to the site.
In this sense the effectiveness of a teaching transmission can be evaluated not on the formal emulation, rejected several times by Eldem himself as a matter of fashion, but on the possibility of forming a critical ability, through a working method based on the study of the project in relation to the site, analysing case by case the possible success of the proposed solutions.

Research paper thumbnail of Turgut Cansever, an interpretation of the Turkish city

Turkey Studies ’16 Proceedings, Özgür Öztürk DAKAM Yayınları, Istanbul , 2016

Research paper thumbnail of From Sedad Eldem to Turgut Cansever. The legacy of a School of Architecture

Archtheo ’16 Proceedings, Özgür Öztürk DAKAM Yayınları, Istanbul, 2016

The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledg... more The theme of this proposal focuses on the concept of "transmissibility" of architectural knowledge unfolding within a School of Architecture. The aim is to highlight the principles that, by the transmission of thought from a Master to a Scholar, have contributed to the development of a Turkish Architecture School. In this specific example, I would like to analyse the influence of Sedad Eldem (1908-1988) teaching method in the work of Turgut Cansever (1921-2009). The architecture of Turgut Cansever is morphologically distant from that of Sedad Eldem and draws on a very wide semantic repertoire, which cannot be reducible just to the influence of a School of Architecture. However, the experience in the Seminars on National Architectural Style and the academic and professional training with Sedad Eldem had a decisive role in the formulation of the theoretical thought of Turgut Cansever, and this influence is clearly legible in his works of architecture. Two transmission subjects, which played a central role in the formation of this idea of school, in particular can be outlined; namely the notions of "type" and "building process”. Eldem in his texts, as Türk evi o Yapı, has deployed a range of possible proposals about the types and the architectural elements. These were part of the same tradition, but at one time made possible the development of a new architecture. "Type" and "building process" are, in this idea of School, part of the same cultural legacy, based not on the imitation of models, but on valuable operating tools to work in the city. The type has to do with the transmissibility of the settlement and urban facts and is linked to the concept of identity. The very notion of identity admits the variation within a common formal repertoire, therefore the use of types in architecture allows a great operational freedom, in terms of architectural composition. Cansever resorts in his architecture both to the variation on the same type (as in the Demir Village in Bodrum, where the architect works through the investigation of the local settlement types), and to the typological contamination (as in the Turkish Historical Society building in Ankara). Even more evident in terms of teaching transmission from Eldem to Cansever is the conception of architecture as "building art". The character of the building process, in which standard elements are joined together to create a structurally and compositionally unitary system, is a feature widely developed in the work of Cansever. Thus the reasons that lead the type into a concluded form are above all constructive ones, while the settlement choices are closely linked to the site. In this sense the effectiveness of a teaching transmission can be evaluated not on the formal emulation, rejected several times by Eldem himself as a matter of fashion, but on the possibility of forming a critical ability, through a working method based on the study of the project in relation to the site, analysing case by case the possible success of the proposed solutions.

Research paper thumbnail of The Spinnerei complex in Leipzig: from cotton mill to international cultural center

Research paper thumbnail of Ivan Leonidov. Ascesa e caduta

Firenze Architettura 2/2018, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A genealogy of modern architecture: comparative critical analysis of built form

Firenze architettura, 2017

Review of Kenneth Frampton, “A genealogy of modern architecture: comparative critical analysis of... more Review of Kenneth Frampton, “A genealogy of modern architecture: comparative critical analysis of built form”, edited by Ashley Simone, Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Oswald Mathias Ungers a Treviri. Due musei

Firenze architettura, 2017

Review of Martina D’Alessandro, “Oswald Mathias Ungers a Treviri. Due musei" , Bononia University... more Review of Martina D’Alessandro, “Oswald Mathias Ungers a Treviri. Due musei" , Bononia University Press, Bologna 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Streets: critical perspectives on public space

Firenze Architettura, 2017

Review of “Streets : critical perspectives on public space”, edited by Z. Çelik, D. Favro, R. Ing... more Review of “Streets : critical perspectives on public space”, edited by Z. Çelik, D. Favro, R. Ingersoll, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of House and Site. Rudofsky, Lewerentz, Zanuso, Sert, Rainer

Firenze Architettura, 2015

Review of “House and Site. Rudofsky, Lewerentz, Zanuso, Sert, Rainer”, edited by E. Mantese, Fire... more Review of “House and Site. Rudofsky, Lewerentz, Zanuso, Sert, Rainer”, edited by E. Mantese, Firenze University Press, Firenze, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of ArCo, Art Collections 2020, Conference on Cultural Heritage, Safety and Digital Innovation. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS.

by Giorgio Verdiani, FRANCESCO COLLOTTI, MARCO TANGANELLI, Giada Cerri, Serena Acciai, Eliana Martinelli, pelin ARSLAN, Alessandro Brodini, Zeynep Ceylanli, Orietta Lanzarini, and Giacomo Pirazzoli

ArCO, 2019

ArCo Conference will take place in Florence, Italy on the 28-30 May 2020 It is an International ... more ArCo Conference will take place in Florence, Italy on the 28-30 May 2020

It is an International Conference dedicated to innovative experiences in Museums and Art Collections.

The call for abstract is open from the 25th of June to the 15th September 2019.

All the details and key dates at: www.arcoconference.com