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To Integrate of Not to Integrate?
Author(s) -
Tanyeli Ugur
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1016
Subject(s) - pessimism , architecture , context (archaeology) , turkish , identity (music) , work (physics) , sociology , architectural engineering , environmental ethics , aesthetics , engineering , history , epistemology , archaeology , art , philosophy , mechanical engineering , linguistics
Turkish architecture over the last 150 years has been plagued by its preoccupation with its integration with the West. Should it be embracing or reflecting Western cultural, technical and professional standards? Uğur Tanyeli provides the background to this pessimistic context and describes how a new generation of architects over the last 10 years have transcended this predicament by producing work that turns away from this obsession with identity. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.