Modernism and nation building
Subtitle: Turkish architectural culture in the early republic
By: Sibel Bozdoğan
Series: Studies in modernity and national identity
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Architecture -- Turkey; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Turkey; Nationalism and architecture -- Turkey; Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960
Description: "With the proclamation of the Turkish republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, Turkey's political and intellectual elites attempted to forge from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire a thoroughly modern, secular, European nation-state. Among many other public expressions of this experiment, they imported modern architecture as both a visible symbol and an effective instrument of their modernizing agenda.

They abandoned the prevailing Ottoman revivalist style and transformed the entire profession of architecture in Turkey according to the aesthetic canons and rationalist doctrines of European modernism." "In this book, the architectural historian Sibel Bozdogan offers a cultural history of modern Turkish architecture and its connections to European modernism from the Young Turk revolution of 1908 to the end of the Kemalist single-party regime in 1950."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-348) and index