Browsing Theses - Department of Architecture by Title
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"Servant Princess" of the modern home : domesticity and femininity in Turkey after electrification, 1923-1950
(Bilkent University, 2014)This dissertation deals with the question how modern domesticity and modern femininity were discursively constructed in the advertisements and other promotional texts of electric appliances published between 1923 and ... -
Smart cities; analyzing themes and concepts of smartness in urban environments
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Cities are grappled with a plethora of socio-political and environmental problems that necessitate the new type of solution models and strategies; such as, environmental pollution, scarcity of resources, cyber-attacks, and ... -
Social affordances of residential open spaces: case study of Dikmen Valley, Ankara
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)This study describes a methodology to assess the social affordances of residential open spaces. To this end, referring to Gibson's concept of affordances, the study investigates the relationship between the social ... -
Tracing conservative modernization of Turkey between 2010-2020: school architecture in Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)Modernization in all fields, including architecture, is on Turkey’s ideological agenda since the late Ottoman period. From that time, different understandings of modernization have been attempted, and reaching the last one ...
