Patterns of Environmental Coherence in the Rural Architectural Tradition of Ürünlü (Akseki-İbradi Basin)

The traditional rural settlements, in general, receive less textual study to be used for historical analysis (1). The insufficiency of textual evidence regarding the remote rural settings becomes an important problem for the historiography of rural architecture. The material evidence of architecture inevitably becomes the principal source for understanding the historical and cultural context of these settlements. Then, appropriate methods should be proposed in order to account for these architectural traditions through material evidence.