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KASIM-ARALIK 2005
 
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ENGLISH SUMMARY

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English Summary by Tuğçe Selin Tağmat

NEWS

.. From the World of Architecture

One of the actual agenda items of Turkey is the EU’s decision to start membership negotiations with Turkey, followed with the adoption of a Negotiating Framework on October 3, 2005. However, it has attracted the attention of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey (CAT) that the framework document covered no provision regarding “urbanization and public improvement”. In a press release, the CAT criticized the absence of such a condition that shows Europe’s neglect towards the urbanization and illegal construction problems of Turkey, which are based on land speculation.

Two activities that are traditionally realized by the CAT are approaching. One of them is the Turkish Architecture Exhibition and Awards, which is biannually organized since 1988 and will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year. The exhibition and awards program both encourages and internationally promotes architects practicing in Turkey. The participation process will open shortly, while the awards ceremony and exhibition will be realized at the Ankara Contemporary Arts Center in April 2006. Architecture and Education Congress, which has been biannually organized by the CAT with an aim to discuss current transformations in the architectural profession and education, will convene on December 7-9, 2005 at the Istanbul Technical University Taşkışla Building. The preparations for the congress start a year before, with a series of thematic workshops, including architectural undergraduate and graduate education, accreditation, professional training and practice, continuing professional development and professional practice within EU and GATS processes. The workshops will be presenting their yearly work and discussions will take place during congress sessions.

AGENDA

... Architectural Policy for a Higher Quality Living Environment: Processes, Actors, Discussions and Turkey... / Tuğçe Selin Tağmat

Departing from the idea that the creation of an architecture policy specific to a country is one of the conditions to achieve a higher quality built environment, the CAT has taken the initiative to work on an architecture policy for Turkey. With this aim, a book that covers architecture policies of several countries in different parts of the world and the “ACE Policy Book 2004: Architecture & Quality of Life” were published in Turkish. Through the organization of a series of meetings, the aim of the CAT is to remember past experiences, discuss how actual issues can be reflected into such a policy and to have a balanced perspective that will contain both international and national developments. The first of these meetings was realized on October 1, 2005, within the Architecture Week program. A draft documents will be developed for a wider discussion during the Advisory Board meeting in November 2005 and a final draft will be presented to the Architecture and Education Congress in December 2005.

UIA 2005 İSTANBUL EVALUATIONS

... A Post-Congress Interview with Suha Özkan / Ayşen Ciravoğlu

The interview with UIA 2005 Istanbul Congress President Suha Özkan aims to present a retrospective evaluation beginning from the organization of the Congress to its realization and post developments, with successes and failures. According to Özkan, the Congress was very successful when one evaluates the general impression voiced by the participants. In a series of questions, Özkan explains that the flexible structure of the Congress shaped by the proposed theme “Grandbazaar of ArchitectureS” generated a wide scala of participation; the high number of student participation made it possible to share the actual issues with future generations of architects; the interest of the media to the Congress carried architecture among the major agenda items of Turkey. Among the activities that the organization committee intended but could not realize were, as Özkan mentions, firstly, the establishment of a digital web environment within the Congress Valley so that everybody can contact each other easily, which is a major problem in Congresses, and secondly, the architectural design of the Valley through a competition, which had been concluded with a winning project but could not be realized due to some technical, financial and administrative problems. Özkan also has a proposal for future Congresses, which he also voices during the UIA Council and General Assembly meetings. According to him, organizing the Congress in every three years places a very big burden on the organizing institutions and furthermore the very loaded program makes it very difficult for participants to follow all the events they are interested in. So, what he proposes is to divide the whole program in different periods of the year so that it will be more possible to discuss actual issues, each time in a different part of the world.

CONSERVATION

... Conservation Board Members Can Neither Be Questioned Nor Be Accused / Besim Çeçener

... Some Comments on the Membership at the Board for the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Assets / Mete Tapan

The new Conservation Law, which was brought into force in July 2004, has been widely criticized for its decision, which increased the number of Conservation Board members from five to seven. With this decision, elected “representatives” from the local and central administration start to work together with the “appointed” members. Another debate about the law is that it opened way for the charging of Conservation Board members because of their views. In these circumstances, their position can be changed to another board through court decision. Besim Çeçener and Mete Tapan, who have worked in these boards for years are commenting on actual discussions on the new Conservation Law.

FILE:

... Sharing Cities / editor: Deniz İncedayı

Initiated in 1985 by the Council of the International Union of Architects, World Architecture Day is celebrated each year on the first Monday of October in conjunction with World Habitat Day, established by the United Nations. This year it took place on Monday October 3, 2005 on the theme: “Sharing the City”. The theme of the World Habitat Day 2005 was, on the other hand, “Millennium Development Goals and the City”. Departing from the World Architecture Day theme, our file covers three related presentations prepared for the UIA 2005 İstanbul Congress.

In his article, “Notes on Urbanism Without Limits: Who is the Owner of the Land? Who is the Owner of the City?”, Ruşen Keleş questions the urban boundaries through the concepts of “land”, “land speculation” and “ownership”, saying that “under the impact of widespread globalization, a new definition of public interest will impose itself in such a way that the new public interest is understood as the arithmetic sum of private interests, and it will be taken as the guiding principle behind public policy in free market societies.

There is no doubt that this trend will continue in the near future, and both the land and cities will be owned by the capital, with the inescapable consequence of a disorderly urban life. Such a trend can be easily observed in Turkish cities including İstanbul.” In his article, “Millennium Development Goals: About the Improvement of the Poverty Areas of the City”, Justin Kilcullen focuses on the problems and positions of “others” in the city with examples from various world cities. Kilcullen discusses on the possible roles of architectural profession for the improvement of poverty areas of the cities, taking into consideration the Millenium Development Goals adopted by 189 nations in 2000. In her post-Congress evaluation, “The Future of European Cities and Failed Planning Strategies: “Shrinking Cities – Bauhaus Goes Urban” UIA Presentation”, Pelin Tan questions strategic approaches, urban policies and their place and meaning within the daily life within the framework of “Shrinking Cities” workshop organized by Bauhaus Dessau during the Congress.

COMPETITION

… Chamber of Architects of Turkey 50th Anniversary Memorial Park – Kayseri

The competition that was opened by the Chamber of Architects of Turkey (CAT) Kayseri Chapter on the occasion of the CAT’s 50th anniversary was resulted on June 3, 2005. The competition aims to achieve the design of a “memorial park” in the city center of Kayseri. After the evaluation of 26 projects, the jury decided on 3 awards, 2 honorary mentions and 2 mentions. The first award was given to the project of Özgür Bingöl and İlke Barka, which is based on the relationship between nature and culture. The project focuses on the generation artistic and cultural facilities within the competition site. The jury comments positively about the conceptual integrity of the composition, originality of the landscape arrangement and variety in the selection of the vegetation.

... Diyarbakır Yenişehir Municipality Service Building Project Competition

The architectural project competition, which was organized by the Diyarbakır Yenişehir Municipality for the design of its service building, was concluded on June 11, 2005. The competition aims to achieve a new office building for the municipality with an architectural approach that takes into account local values with reference to the historical accumulation of the city, its pluralist cultural structure and sustainability of the existing urban morphology. After its evaluation of 76 projects; the jury decided on 3 awards, 3 honorary mentions and 6 mentions. The first award was given to the project of Özcan Uygur and Semra Uygur. According to the jury, “the articulation of the existing topography of the site to create an urban life in the upper level and a sunken courtyard in the lower level; the continuity between the interior and exterior spaces; simplicity, purity and economicity of the proposed building” are the positive aspects of the project.

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

... A Modernization Project in the Early Republican Period: Public Improvement of the Fire Collapsed Region of İzmir and Typological Characteristics of the New Housing Quarters / Sıdıka Çetin

Sıdıka Çetin investigates the housing typology in the new quarters constructed after the great fire experienced in İzmir in 1922. Çetin says that, İzmir was planned as a “national financial center” in the Early Republican Period and the construction of the new housing quarters, as well as the other urban elements such as great boulevards and recreational park and fair area, also represented this ideal.

SERIAL: ARCHITECT’S STATE OF MIND / Serial Editor: Kubilay Önal

... An Architect Working on Architectural Presentation / Promotion Services: Varjan Yurtgülü

The serial that aims to present architect’s different states of mind had started in MİMARLIK 324 with an interview with Çelen Birkan, an experienced architect worked at the public institutions for long years. In this issue, we are presenting Varjan Yurtgülü, an architect working on architectural presentation and promotion services.

BOOK REVIEW

... A Re-reading of Sinan: Architecture Culture in the Ottomans / Selen B. Morkoç

Selen Morkoç makes a review of Gülru Necipoğlu’s latest book “The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire”. According to Morkoç, the book, which is an outcome of a 10-year research and accumulation, brings a new perspective to the works of Mimar Sinan, “an over-consumed historical figure in the historiographic literature”. The book attempts a re-reading of Sinan’s and Ottoman architecture by questioning the universally adopted facts and prejudgements.

MEA ARCHITECTURA MEA CULPA

... Pyramided Skyscraper / Gürhan Tümer

Pyramids stand on one side, in Egypt, near Cairo or Central America. Skyscrapers stand on the other side, in New York or Hong Kong. They stand in different locations, just that way, all alone... Then there comes an artist, his name is Roger Brown. One day, this artist integrates a pyramid and a skyscraper to create a composition, which he calls “Pyramided Skyscraper”. First he draws a sketch of this composition and then he makes a model of it made of wood. And finally he paints it with an acrylic paint. There exist people in the windows of the Pyramided Skyscraper. But the people do not look out from these windows but just stay next to them. Pyramided Skyscraper recalls surrealism.

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