Browsing by Subject "House"

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An architectural and conceptual analysis of Mesopotamian temples from the Ubaid to the old Babylonian period
(2007) Soudipour, Amir H.
This study attempts to explore the architecture of Mesopotamian temples from the Ubaid to the Old Babylonian period. It analyses the ways in which the layout of the temples changed and developed through time. It argues how different factors such as ideology, cosmology, religion and environment were reflected in the architecture and function of temple complexes. The thesis also looks closely at the concept of the temple as the house of god, and by comparing the selected temples of different periods to the domestic architecture of the same period, aims to trace the influence and reflection of the domestic structure on the sacred structure and to determine in which period the structural similarity reaches its zenith and declines. Changes in Mesopotamia’s social organization can be linked to these changes in temple layout
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Besteci Necdet Levent ve Levent Müzik Evi
(Bilkent University, 2020) Tansel, Çağla; Vuruşkan, Hasan; Kıcıman, Zeynep; Durmaz, İpek Su; Kaya, Nadir
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Üniversitesi'ndeki Hist 200 dersi için yapılan bu çalışmada, çok değerli bir sanatçı olmasına rağmen hak ettiği değeri göremediği düşünülen Necdet Levent araştırıldı. İlk olarak Necdet Levent'in hayatı araştırıldı ve müzisyenliğinde yaşam öyküsünün bir katkısı olup olmadığını incelendi. Daha sonra Levent'in müzisyen kişiliği araştırıldı. Bunun için kızından ve müzisyen arkadaşlarından bilgiler toplandı. Levent'in etkilendiği müzik akımları ve besteleri araştırıldı. Son olarak, Levent'in müziğe başladığı yıllardan beri açmayı hayal ettiği müzik evi araştırıldı. Bu müzik evinin içeriği ve İzmir'deki önemi araştırıldı. Bu çalışmayı yaparken kendisiyle geçmişte yapılan röportajlar, onun yakınlarıyla yapılan görüşmeler ve geçmişteki gazete haberleri yol gösterici olmuştur.
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Between being and becoming : identity, question of foreignness and the case of the Turkish house
(2012) Şumnu, Umut
How were those narratives telling us about the Turkish House shaped? How did they come to contribute to the formation of our understanding of the history [and theory] of modern Turkish architecture? And respectively, how did they dominate our conception of modern Turkish identity? In light of these questions, this dissertation looks at the historiography of what is the so-called Turkish House as it emerged from Ottoman obscurity into the consciousness of the new Republic of Turkey, between the closing decades of the 19th century and the end of the 1930s. And, following the arguments of post-structuralist (architectural) theorists and the texts of the architectural historians in Turkey, this study intends to open up an ontological discussion around modern Turkish identity, and respectively around the Turkish House, as its architectural translation. Through looking at culturally and politically thick textual descriptions in journals, books, novels and stories; and visual representations in pictures, drawings, and architectural projects of the era, this study first of all underlines that idea/image of the Turkish House appeared and was formed as a response to the question of „foreignness‟. Then, from a de-constructive perspective, in order to challenge the term‟s de-facto usage, this study most productively brings the „foreign‟ voices of several architects - like Ernst Egli, Bruno Taut and Seyfi Arkan, who were practicing their designs in the late 1930s in Turkey- to the discussion, to reveal a more „dialogical‟, more „contingent‟, and more „pluralized‟ conception of the term modern, and to trace an alternative understanding of the Turkish House. Although in cultural and historical terms, the designs of these architects do not fit into the typological and stylistic principles of traditional dwelling forms, the works, which concentrates on not the „essential modern‟ character of the Turkish House, but the „inevitably national‟ character of modern house help us to position a more experimental, more spatial and more universalistic understanding of the Turkish House, rather than a stylistic, decorative, romantic, and culturally relativist one. In other words, through works, one can find a chance to shift from the morphological perspective of modern (and, of national); to show that the terms modern and national cannot be reduced into fixed architectural definitions; to portray a modern-national identity that is slippery, mobile, multiple, heterogeneous, incomplete, and subject to change; and more importantly, to surface an understanding of Turkish House not as a „thingness‟, as a being, but as a „movement‟, as a „becoming‟.
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Boundaries of gendered space : traditional Turkish house
(2001) Dengiz, Esma Burçin
This work looks at the traditional Turkish house and its two boundaries from the point of gender-space relationship. Acknowledging that gender and space mutually construct each other, this thesis explains both the manifestation of gender difference in the built environment in general, and how the domestic environment in Ottoman architecture and gender mutually construct each other. The two boundaries of the hayat house are analyzed, as regards the body and the gaze of the woman. These are the house-street boundary (street façade and its components, also living areas which are adjacent to the street façade’s interior and exterior) and the house-garden boundary (garden façade and its components, also living areas which are adjacent to the garden façade’s interior and exterior). In this respect, the boundaries of the house are thresholds between the public and the private, the exterior and the interior, therefore they express the binaries that these bring within. By looking at the body and gaze of the woman at these thresholds, the oppositions of these thresholds are illustrated.
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The study of the concept of the sacred hearth and Greek goddess of the hearth and their association with the Prytaneion, its origins, and its development
(2006) Çayır, Esra
This thesis examines the concept of the sacred hearth and also Hestia, the goddess of the sacred hearth in Greece in association with the origins and developments of the Prytaneion, which is connected to one of the most important civic institutions of the Greek city-state. In the thesis, the meaning and functions of the Prytaneion are defined in accordance with the literary and epigraphic sources. Some identified and excavated examples are also described in the thesis. Related to the Prytaneion, the monumental hearths in the Mycenaean palaces and examples of house architecture from the Iron Age will be emphasized briefly to look at the possible cultic and architectural origins of the Prytaneion.
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Ziya Osman Saba'nın şiirinde ev
(2007) Demirel, Serhat
Ziya Osman Saba assigned a prominent place to house and home in his poetry. For this reason he is considered the first domestic poet in Turkish literature by several critics. In the present thesis, themes relating to the house and home in his poetry are approached from three aspects: the modernity and tradition dichotomy, home as a shelter and source of happiness, and sexuality. The references to the types of modern and traditional life styles and perceptions have been identified. In this section, it is concluded that the house in Saba’s poetry taken literally and metaphorically, is indicative of a longing for traditional rather than modern life style. In the poems, it is recognized that the interior and the exterior, with specific references to furniture, family, neigbours, the garden and outside of the house and different city spaces, an empasis is placed on the dissapearing tradition. In Part II. titled “Taking Shelter, and Happiness”, it is observed that the poet takes refuge in his house and feels intense happiness and comfort, and two main reasons for this are identified. First, the turmoil caused by modernity, and the second is the desire to take refuge from natural dangers. In the poems, the house and the family always bear positive meanings, and the ideal house seems as the source of all happiness. This is also an important difference between Ziya Osman Saba and the another Turkish domestic poet, Behçet Necatigil. Lastly, the relationship between sexuality and the house in terms of domestic space and family is studied. Subsequently, with reference to various views on this subject it is shown that sexuality always goes with familial intimacy. On the other hand, it is clear that the poet somewhat covers up the sexuality aspect in a number of poems which he did not publish in his books. It is observed that the sexual aspect of domestic privacy is not expressed in detail, but given to the reader in terms of a covert style.