From Imaginary Geographies to Social Engineering Projects: Architecture, Urban and Rural Space in Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu’s Texts
DÜŞSEL COĞRAFYALARDAN TOPLUMSAL MÜHENDİSLİK PROJELERİNE: ABDULLAH ZİYA KOZANOĞLU’NUN MİMARLIK METİNLERİNDE KÖY VE KENT

Author : Erhan Berat FINDIKLI
Number of pages : 475-506.

Abstract

This article examines Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu’s authoritarian discourse on architecture, rural and urban space and built-environment in the early Republican Era, mainly in the 1930’s in Turkey and it attempts to answer questions such as how he constructed his narrative on architecture, under which circumstances his ideas and historiographical approach were formed, what kind of intertextuality he had produced. This article tries also to explicate, contextualize and also problematize Kozanoğlu’s naive perception of rural space, culture, past and World history. Here terms such as “representations of space” and “space of representations” by Lefebvre, “disciplinary practices” by Foucault and “naive and sentimental novelist” by Orhan Pamuk are used as theoretical frame work.

Keywords

Early Republican Turkey, rural and urban space, ideology, culture, historiography.

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