DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF ISTANBUL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1923-1940
İSTANBUL KONUT MÎMÂRÎSİNİN 1923-1940 YILLARI ARASINDAKİ GELİŞİM SÜRECİ

Author : Derya ÖZAKBAŞ
Number of pages : 283-309

Abstract

Residences built or have built by human being as shelters in which they feel safe passed through a definite development process beginning from prehistoric period until today. Living spaces transforming from caves into apartments showed a change according to counties, geographies and cultures. It is observed when looking at residence culture Anatolian geography of the Turks who come from migrant culture and are accustomed to tent life that process beginning from separate houses goes back to multi-storey residences. Istanbul has a characteristic of being a leading city with its apartments within the process when there was a transition from Traditional Turkish residence architecture to modern living spaces. Zoning studies and residential constructions initiated in the country after proclamation of the Republic gained speed in Istanbul and continued until today. Residences built in Istanbul between the years of 1923-1940 started to be shaped in new style according to changing conditions and order of the day while also being planned in accordance with traditional opinion and life style. This attitude is observed in apartments as much as in separate houses. As it is known, first samples of today’s apartments started to be built in Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire Period (XIXth century), and multi-storey residence construction that is observed in the cities where non-Muslim citizens reside spread to the entire city after proclamation of the Republic. In this study, residence architecture formation will be looked at within the process starting from the prehistoric period until ancient ages, and then development process of Turkish residence architecture will be explained shortly with plan schemes. Finally, Istanbul residence architecture covering time frame of said 18 years will be tried to evaluate over general characteristics and reasons of apartmentalization.

Keywords

Republic, İstanbul Architecture, Res

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