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Item Open Access The concept of beauty in art(Elsevier, 2022-01-01) Turan, Fulya; Vargel, İ.; Özgür, F. F.Before the invention of the camera, it was only possible to document beauty through art. For centuries, art and beauty were inseparable. Different meanings were attributed to the “beautiful” in history. Sometimes noble simplicity and calm sublimity were accepted as beauty; sometimes moral beauty was at the forefront. Among the beauties, a special place and importance was given to female beauty in the history of art. The untouched, desired, hopelessly loved woman of the Middle Ages later became the main subject of a painting genre. Nudes, which were first made for religious reasons such as to depict a specific scene from the bible, later diversified under the subject of Venus. The female body has become the object of sensual consumption. In addition to female beauty, the beauty of nature has always been among the subjects of art. Art imitated nature for a while because it was beautiful. It was the background to which man was exposed during his natural evolution. The proportions of nature were good for people, they were found beautiful. Nature, which was previously handled only with a style based on imitation, was handled with an abstract expression in time, thanks to the avant-garde artists of the 20th century. It was a period in which different styles of expression were tried. Modernism, where wisdom, beauty, and refinement were sought, was for an elite audience who idealized nature. It left its place to postmodernism in which sensual stimulation was sought rather than an intellectual admiration, which is for mass media and where craftsmanship is idealized. The individual of the 21st century consumer society, who is passionately attracted to the beauty of their own image that is presented to the gaze of others on social media, resembles the nobles of the Renaissance period, when the charm of the wealth obtained through overseas trade was depicted with a similar passion.Item Open Access Designing and consuming the modern in Turkey(Routledge, 2016) Gürel, Meltem Ö.; Sparke, P.; Fisher, F.The materiality of interior space reveals a celebration of some ideas, values, beliefs, visions, and even ideologies, while suppressing others. Its reading provides an intriguing social history and serves as a tool through which we can make sense of dominant design concepts, inclinations, and preferences oating around globally at a historical moment in a society. Although never fully in command of how interiors are shaped, all actors responsible for their creation, such as owners, users, decorators, interior designers, and architects, contribute to the discursive formation of certain concepts such as modernity ( Gürel 2008: 230 ). This chapter discusses the production and consumption of design and modernity through design practices in Turkey. From late-nineteenth-century Ottoman palaces to twentieth-century domestic spaces, the chapter shows how design served as a mechanism for constructing and consuming modern identities associated with Westernization.Item Open Access Elevator design process(MIT Press, 2012) Taşlı-Pektaş, ŞuleItem Open Access Looking at/in/from the Maison de Verre(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2005) Wilson, ChristhoperThe iconic Maison de Verre, attributed to Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet (Paris, 1928-1932), has traditionally been analyzed in terms of its eponymous glass-block walls, its industrial aesthetic, its climate-control advancements, and/or the way that the house seems to be like one large piece of furniture. However, few commentators have critically discussed the two different.Item Open Access A mobile dialogue of an immobile saint: St. Symeon the younger, divine liturgy, and the architectural setting(Routledge, 2018) Belgin-Henry, Ayşe; Bogdanovic, J.The pilgrimage site of St. Symeon the Younger at the Wondrous Mountain, near Antioch, is founded around the column of the saint that followed the ascetic model of his namesake, the “protostylite” St. Symeon the Elder. Belgin-Henry focuses on one essential but neglected feature of the site at the Wondrous Mountain that distinguishes it from the majority of pilgrimage centers. The complex was not a commemorative center built after the death of a saint but an elaborate setting constructed around a living ascetic. The stylite was piercing a church, while the builders successfully integrated the saint’s practice and the liturgy.Item Open Access The modern home, western fashion and feminine identities in mid-twentieth century Turkey(Berg Publishers, 2011) Gürel, Meltem Ö.; Fisher, F.; Keeble, T.; Lara-Betancourt, P.; Martin, B.Item Open Access The persistence of the Turkish nation in the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2007) Wilson, Christopher S.[No abstract available]Item Open Access Seashore readings: the road from sea baths to summerhouses in mid-twentieth century Izmir(Routledge, 2016) Gürel, Meltem Ö.; Gürel, Meltem Ö.This chapter focuses on how architectural representations were a medium through which a sense of the modern and the novel were established and solidified, as well as how the forms and aesthetics of a number of summerhouses mediated Euro-American influences on Turkish architectural culture. It proposes the shift in power and how this power worked in managing and manipulating a society. The chapter draws attention to summerhouses and summerhouse developments as another important player, characterizing the years not only in terms of transforming the ideas of home and the built environment, but also the provincial seashore in the context of the politics of modernization and the architectural culture. It argues that summerhouses developed into a significant testing ground for new ideas.Item Open Access Socio-spatial approaches for media and communication research(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Sak, Segah; Kubitschko, S.; Kaun, A.Sak handles digital media research through an architectural/urban viewpoint. The main line of argument is that, research on digital media does and can further benefit from socio-spatial research approaches. The chapter starts by explaining briefly the socio-spatial attributes of the digital realm and gives an overview of the ways in which methods and approaches of urban, environmental and behavioral studies are being adopted for media and communication research. Finally, Sak advocates a socio-spatial approach that can be employed by further research on the digital realm.Item Open Access A System model for pin-pointing the historical buildings with respect to multiple typologies(Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, 2005) Şenyapılı, Burcu; Martens, B.; Brown, A.This paper discusses the problem of locating buildings of architectural heritage with respect to different typologies. The cross referencing process of such a task can often be tedious and difficult. Within this framework, this paper introduces a system model that enables users to pin-point the buildings with respect to different typologies. The model introduced here differs from similar efforts by displaying of the results of inquiries on a visual matrix. A limited sample domain of Classical Ottoman architectural heritage illustrates how the proposed model will operate. All the buildings entered in the system have textual and visual data entries along with static and dynamic attributes. In any inquiry, the attributes determine which buildings will be included, and the visual data fill in the cells of the matrix.Item Open Access The true model concept in computer simulations used in architectural design(IRIS-ISIS Publications, 1996) Şenyapılı, Burcu; Mertens, B.Most of the studies on the effective use of the potential of computer aid in architectural design assert that the way architects design without the computer is not “related” to the way they design with the computer. In other words, they complain that the architectural design software does not work as the architects think and that the way designers model with computers is not similar to the way they actually construct the model in their brains. Within the above framework, this study initially discusses architectural design as a modeling process and defines computer generated simulations (walkthrough, flythrough, virtual reality) as models. Based on this discussion, the “similarity” of architectural design and computer aided design is displayed. And then, it is asserted that in order to improve the computer aid to architectural design, it is not the issue of similarity, but of the “trueness” of the computer generated model that needs to be discussed. Consequently, it is relevant to ask to what extent should the simulation simulate the design model. The study proposes measures as to how true a simulation model should be in order to represent the design model inherent in the designer’s mind, best.