Browsing Theses - Department of Architecture by Title
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Ottomentality: neoliberal governance of culture and neo-Ottoman management of diversity
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)Since the 2000s Turkey has witnessed a growing array of cultural productions and sites ranging from television series to history museums featuring the magnificence of the Ottoman legacy. Contemporary cultural analyses often ... -
Reading the transformations of Konya Culture Park as an urban space
(Bilkent University, 2018-07)Culture parks, built as recreational green urban spaces with entertainment facilities, were one of the most important modernization projects of the early Republican era. Capturing national ideals and the Republican ... -
Representation and women : construction of gender-roles in computer games
(Bilkent University, 1996)Developments in computer industry gave way computer games to become a popular entertainment agent for children as well as for adults. Interactive quality of computer games has displaced television and traditional ... -
Representing absence and the absent one : remembering and longing through mourning photography
(Bilkent University, 2013)Exploring different practices of photographing / representing the dead, this dissertation, deals with the question how the deceased loved ones are remembered and longed for through photography in the context of family. ... -
"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 ...
