Domestic arrangements: The Maid's Room in the Ataköy apartment blocks, Istanbul, Turkey
Date
2012
Authors
Gürel, M. O.
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Source Title
Journal of Architectural Education
Print ISSN
1046-4883
Electronic ISSN
1531-314X
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc.
Volume
66
Issue
1
Pages
115 - 126
Language
English
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Abstract
The first phase of Istanbul's Ataköy Housing Development, an icon of architectural modernism in Turkey, inflects modernist architectural forms with local domestic traditions. This study examines the maid's room, a sphere of the Turkish modern interior where post-war ideas and ideals both reconciled and contradicted the customary and the modern. The case study extends recent attempts to re-think postwar architectural culture and its global effects.