Research Papers by Fatma İpek EK
Atmospheric Image of the Exhibited Self: Gâvur Mahallesi Exhibition on Instagram
Digital Creativity, 2025
This paper examines how individuals interact with the spatial atmospheres of artworks in exhibiti... more This paper examines how individuals interact with the spatial atmospheres of artworks in exhibitions, as reflected in their social media posts. Understanding this relationship is crucial for exhibitions to gain insights into visitor reception and meaning co-creation. The study introduces a new framework to analyze visitor-generated Instagram posts from Ahmet Güneştekin’s Gâvur Mahallesi exhibition. Applying Gernot Böhme’s atmosphere generators (reframed as selves, objects, vectors, and mediators in digital atmospheric images), a mixed-methods approach analyzes 438 Instagram posts linked to 71 artworks and tagged at the location. The analysis includes color palettes, filters, generator presence/position, and thematic analysis of captions/comments. Findings show that popular artworks generate strong spatial atmospheres, and visitors actively construct digital selves by adding narratives, sometimes challenging original intentions. This research contributes to digital curation, museum studies, and social media research by offering a method to understand visitor engagement with complex exhibition atmospheres via digital platforms.
A|Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture , 2025
After the COVID-19 pandemic, basic design studios given in the first year of architectural educat... more After the COVID-19 pandemic, basic design studios given in the first year of architectural education in Turkey have undergone a new accelerating process based on using physical design techniques with digitalization. The current study proposes a new curriculum that integrates the ideational, interpersonal, and (con)textual metafunctions of language into basic design learning to facilitate the integration of physical and digital tools. It was applied in the first semester of the basic design curriculum through face-to-face education. At the end of the term, we surveyed first-year students to learn about the positive and negative aspects of making designs in physical and digital environments. The results demonstrated that they are undecided and have some hesitations in representing their design ideas physically, while they are relatively confident of the advantages of designing in the digital environment. However, although 3D representation has become easier with the use of digital tools and students' digital representation skills have improved, it has also been observed that students' perceptions and understanding of 3D and spatiality have not improved at the same rate.
Nakhara: Journal of Environmental Design and Planning, 2024
The paper aims to analyze and make visible the intertwined layers of a palimpsest territory, such... more The paper aims to analyze and make visible the intertwined layers of a palimpsest territory, such as the historical bazaar of Kemeraltı in Izmir, Turkey, through the lens of architecture students concerning their perceptions of producing Instagrammable visual data to influence and attract the prospective visitors and to compensate the lack of interest in the bazaar as mentioned by local institutions. Through this analysis, we also aim to conduct a methodological experiment that recognizes social media as a cognitive tool by combining digital and physical representations. The study encompasses a one-month workshop for students of the visualization in an elective architecture course. The technique of themebased cognitive mapping both in the space of places and the space of flows in Manuel Castells' sense was utilized to investigate how the students perceive the historical and socio-cultural qualities of the region through different realms. The workshop briefs were accompanied by Instagram hashtag research and the design of visual journals, consisting of the photographs and videos taken by the students to share their influencer/sensemaker routes specific to the selected themes. The students tailored various influencer/sensemaker roles and generated place-based scenarios in combination with the themes. Ultimately, Kemeraltı's multifaceted genius could be reflected on cognitive and sensory grounds through digital and physical cognitive maps, social media journals, and analyses. It was observed that the students could integrate the intersubjective character of the readily presented data on social media into the subjective and authentic character of the data produced mindfully on the site.
A|Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 2024
Italian architect, archaeologist, and scholar Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a prolific Enlighten... more Italian architect, archaeologist, and scholar Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a prolific Enlightenment figure who produced an elaborate series of drawings and etchings to support his following argument on the origins of European architecture: Roman architecture derived not from the Greek but from the Etruscan, which, according to him, derived from Egypt. Based on his meticulous archaeological examinations in excavations, he developed a history of architecture that was not based on the East-West division and the separation of the continents. However, Johann Joachim Winckelmann's approach rooting the origin of Roman architecture in the Greek came to dominate the standard history of architecture, and Piranesi was misinterpreted both in his day and posthumously. The posthumous codification of architectural history excluded Piranesi from the standardized progress of architectural history in the West and resulted in his identification by idiosyncrasy. Therefore, this work is an attempt to restore his argument to architectural history.
Grid - Architecture, Planning and Design Journal, 2024
Social media, which changes the way that we perceive our physical surroundings, currently corresp... more Social media, which changes the way that we perceive our physical surroundings, currently corresponds to a tool that has the power to reshape the image of the city in the digital environment through a digitally reproduced city. Visual-based social media platforms play a significant role in the process of reshaping and reproduction. The current study aims to research and understand the layers of the digital image of a (digital) city, as reflected and reproduced on social media, firstly through a content analysis on Instagram. For this purpose, we collected samples of the images/videos posted between May and July 2021 in Konak and Bayraklı, the existing and prospective city centers of Izmir. Secondly, we surveyed social media users who previously had physical and/or digital experience of these city centers. With this sample data, we proposed a new categorization to understand the digital image of the (digital) city in a parallel way to the classical Lynchian theory. In the end, it was seen that, in the digital realm, there is a digital city that needs to be defined and categorized according to its peculiar characteristics, and the image of this city is user-generated whose process evolves (inter)subjectively through different categories.
Tasarım Kuram, 2024
Günümüz mimari tasarım eğiliminde estetik, duyusal deneyim ve duyum temelinde ilerlerken, bu dene... more Günümüz mimari tasarım eğiliminde estetik, duyusal deneyim ve duyum temelinde ilerlerken, bu deneyim ve duyumun ardında beliren duygulanım kavramını da içermektedir. Böylelikle mekân atmosferi mimarlığın estetik nesnesi haline gelirken karşılık geldiği olgunun çok katmanlı mimari bileşenlerden oluşan bir yapıya ve bu yapıdan fazlası denebilecek, deneyimciyi ve geçmişini de kapsayan ve dolayısıyla sürekli değişen bir organizmaya karşılık geldiği söylenebilir.
Mekânlaşan ve anlatılaşan mekânın, deneyim odaklı devinimin sürekliliğini amaçlayan doğasına ait izler, tarih içinde kültürler temelinde takip edildiğinde karşımıza derin bir etki olarak Japon mekân estetiği çıkmaktadır. Japon kültürüne ait, özellikle din ve coğrafya temelli olgular gerek mekânda gerekse sözde yer edinmiş, kültürün nesiller arasında aktarımını sağlayan genetik kodları haline gelmiştir. Dolayısıyla Japon kültüründe bir mekân ile bir şiir karşılaştırıldığında, bu iki aracı şekillendiren yaratım niyetleri, aktarılan olgular ve sunulan mesajların birbirine koşut olduğu görülebilir. Mekânın tasarımında rol oynayarak onu var eden söz ile şiir sanatıyla aktarılan mekânsal deneyim, Japon kültürünün genlerinde yer alan farklı estetik kodlar ile okunabilir. Bu kodlardan biri, birbirine zıt kavramların simbiyotik var oluşuna işaret eden ve literatüre Kurokawa Kisho’nun kazandırdığı hanasuki estetik etkisidir. Mekânı yaratan kavramlar/dil ile dilde/söz’de yaratılan mekân hanasuki estetik etki temelinde ele alındığında her iki bağlamda da okunabilirlik kazanır.
Bu çalışma, mekânı kodlayan / var eden estetik etkiyi öncelikle Japon mimarların mekân tasarımında estetiğe odaklanan açıklamaları üzerinden, ardından Japon şairlerin eserlerinde karşımıza çıkan mekânsal tarifleri/göndermeleri aracılığıyla okumayı planlamaktadır. Mekândaki söz olan Japon mimarlığı ile söz’de mekânlaşan Japon mimarlığında, zıt kavramların simbiyotik bir aradalığından doğan estetik etkinin, deneyimleyen ve deneyimlenen (özne ile nesne) arasında özel köprülerle bağladığı mekânsal yapı incelenecek, yer yer Batılı izlekte bulduğu karşılıklara da değinilecektir.
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The word aesthetic has been generally found dangerous by architects. The subjective values related to aesthetics play a role in the perception of the discipline as related to ambiguous notions, in today’s architecture. However, the heart of the discipline resides in the universally recognized qualities/values in the periods of both when it was coined by Aleksander Gottlieb Baumgarten in the eighteenth century and when it was handled with the twentieth century’s phenomenological perspective toward the spatial atmosphere. While aesthetics in today’s architectural design trend proceeds on the basis of sensory experience and sensation, it also includes the concept of emotion that emerges behind this experience and sensation. Thus, while the atmosphere of space becomes the aesthetic object of architecture, it can be said that the phenomenon it corresponds to is a structure consisting of multi-layered architectural components and an organism that can be called more than this structure, including the experiencers and their pasts, and therefore constantly changing. At this point, it seems inevitable for the spatialized space to continue spatializing and thus become a narrative.
When the traces of the nature of the spatializing and narrated space, aiming at the continuity of the experience-oriented movement, are followed on the basis of cultures in history, we encounter Japanese space aesthetics as a profound effect. The phenomena of Japanese culture, especially based on religion and geography, have taken place both in space and in words, and have become the genetic codes that ensure the transfer of culture between generations. Therefore, when a space and a poem are compared in Japanese culture, it can be seen that the creation intentions that shape these two tools, the phenomena conveyed and the messages presented are parallel to each other. The words that play a role in the design of the space and create it, and the spatial experience that is conveyed by the poetic can be read with different aesthetic codes in the genes of Japanese culture. One of these codes is the hanasuki aesthetic effect, which points to the symbiotic existence of opposite concepts and was brought to the literature by Kurokawa Kisho. When the concepts/language that creates the space and the space created in language/words are considered on the basis of hanasuki aesthetic effect, it gains legibility in both contexts.
In this framework, the current study plans to question and read the aesthetic effect that encodes/creates space, first through the explanations of Japanese architects focusing on aesthetics in spatial design, and then through the spatial descriptions that we encounter in the works of Japanese poets. The content of the study focuses on the concept of contrast, which has aesthetic and philosophical foundations in Japanese culture and language and is based on a dynamic and symbiotic relationship, through texts describing the spaces belonging to this culture. The spatial structure connected by special bridges by the aesthetic effect arising from the symbiotic coexistence of opposite concepts in Japanese architecture corresponding to the word in the space and Japanese architecture in the word will be examined, and the correspondence of this effect, which takes place between the experiencer and the experienced (subject and object), in the Western theme, will also be referred.
Therefore, the texts are divided into two groups on the basis of a view (as words in the space) that can be seen as the reflection of cultural codes in the language, and readings of the representational existence of which the space is reconstructed through the references in the language (as space in the word). While the first group is trying to understand the aesthetic codes that appear in the language of the physical creation of the space through the explanations made by Japanese architects on the basis of aesthetics, the second group focuses on understanding the components and structuring of the same aesthetic codes by looking at the representation of the space in literary texts. The aim is to show that the basis of space creation and representation practices that shape Japanese architecture, in theory, corresponds to one of the aesthetic effects that have deep roots in this culture, hanasuki, which is born from the dynamic and symbiotic unity of contrasts. Understanding the past can guide the future: approaching the deficiencies and reservations about aesthetic tendencies in contemporary Western and Eastern architecture, including all architectural traditions and cultures, by looking at the relationship between Japanese aesthetic philosophy and architecture, which has a deep history in this field, can serve as a guide for us on the way to solution and progress.
![Research paper thumbnail of Time in the Shell: Temporality as a Mode of Spatiality in Japanese Architecture [Kabuktaki Zaman: Japon Mimarlığında Bir Mekânsallık Kipi Olarak Zamansallık]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/109195773/thumbnails/1.jpg)
UOU scientific journal, 2023
Time is perceived and lived within a different understanding in Japanese culture, which brings ne... more Time is perceived and lived within a different understanding in Japanese culture, which brings new possibilities and existential modes for the construction of space. Time follows a cyclical/circular structure of temporality and ensures impermanence with its transience and the permanence of transience with its repetition. Both past and future are intertwined within the culture of spatial design as well as within the language. The language and philosophy of living reflect the architectural and aesthetic approaches for building a temporal spatiality. The phenomenological generators of these spatiotemporal atmospheres echo through the key concepts such as ma, mu, and kū, as well as through the aesthetic conceptions of, for example, mono no aware, shakkei, wabi-sabi, and hanasuki. It may be claimed that the love of imperfect and impermanent beauty is the gene of the Japanese spatial atmosphere in the traditional context. In this framework, this paper examines three projects of Japanese spatial design that reflect the cyclical understanding of time and the aesthetic conceptions connected to it: the Summer Solstice Light-Worship 100-Meter Gallery and the Winter Solstice Light-Worship Tunnel / Light Well designed by Sugimoto Hiroshi, and the Benesse House Oval designed by Ando Tadao. These three examples perfectly demonstrate the unique way in which Japanese culture understands and expresses time and space. Based on these projects, the paper also argues that temporality is one of the most powerful modes of spatiality in Japanese culture, which aims to weave a shell for time to exist in space.
Japon kültüründe zaman farklı bir anlayışla algılanır ve yaşanır; bu da mekânın inşası için yeni olanaklar ve varoluş kipleri meydana getirir. Zaman, döngüsel/dairesel bir zamansallık yapısı izler ve geçiciliğiyle süreksizliği, tekrarıyla da geçiciliğin kalıcılığını sağlar. Hem geçmiş hem de gelecek, dilde olduğu gibi mekânsal tasarım kültüründe de iç içe geçmiştir. Dil ve yaşam felsefesi, zamansal bir mekânsallığın inşasına yönelik mimari ve estetik yaklaşımları yansıtır. Bu mekân-zamansal atmosferlerin olgu bilimsel üreticileri, ma, mu ve kū gibi anahtar kavramların yanı sıra, örneğin mono no aware, shakkei, wabi-sabi ve hanasuki gibi estetik kavrayışlar aracılığıyla yankılanır. Kusurlu ve süreksiz güzelliğe duyulan sevgi, geleneksel bağlamda Japon mekân atmosferinin genidir denebilir.Bu çerçevede, makale, Japon mekân tasarımının döngüsel zaman anlayışı ile bu anlayışa bağlı estetik kavrayışlarını yansıtan üç projeyi incelemektedir: Sugimoto Hiroshi tarafından tasarlanan Yaz Gündönümü Işık Tapınağı 100 Metrelik Galeri ile Kış Gündönümü Işık Tapınağı Tüneli / Işık Kuyusu ve Ando Tadao tarafından tasarlanan Benesse Oval Evi. Bu üç örnek, Japon kültürünün zaman ve mekânı nasıl anladığını ve ifade ettiğini mükemmel bir şekilde göstermektedir. Bu projelerden hareketle makale, aynı zamanda, zamansallığın, mekânda var olabilmesi için zamana bir kabuk örmeyi amaçlayan Japon kültüründeki en güçlü mekânsallık kiplerinden biri olduğunu savunmaktadır.
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes , 2023
The picturesque refers to an influential genre as well as a critical period during which the aest... more The picturesque refers to an influential genre as well as a critical period during which the aesthetic culture of the Enlightenment was blended to form the Romanticist face of the age. Though it means ‘picture-like’ etymologically, the picturesque goes beyond being an eye-based scene and covers the other senses while aiming to provide a scenario with multi-sensory experiences for ramblers on site. Regarding this disposition, the picturesque atmosphere denotes a bridge in-between the past and present with its role in the theories of aesthetics. In this framework, this article aims to read the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century picturesque by referring to the phenomenological theories of the spatial atmosphere of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our research demonstrated that the atmosphere of picturesque landscape designs can be conveyed strongly through spatial representations in different art forms. In doing this, the paper proposes the concept of the picturesque atmosphere as a tool to read the spatiality, especially in art branches, mainly including painting. Therefore, a reading model to examine the spatiality in the picturesque paintings was proposed at the end of the paper, by drawing from the theories of both the picturesque and spatial atmosphere.
![Research paper thumbnail of Kültürel Üretim Mekânlarında Kenti Üreten Kadınlar: Kadifekale Örneği [Women Producing the City in Cultural Production Spaces: The Case of Kadifekale]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/105027938/thumbnails/1.jpg)
İDEALKENT , 2023
Migrant women, who are generally passive during migration, become active subjects in using and tr... more Migrant women, who are generally passive during migration, become active subjects in using and transforming migration spaces. Identity, gender, socio-cultural norms and eco-nomic concerns are elements needing to be evaluated in women’s relationship with spaces. While these factors cause many vital difficulties for women, they also introduce spatial reproductions. In this context, Kadifekale as an important migration region in the city center of Izmir has been the subject of many academic and local government-based studies regarding urban transformation policies. In addition to the previous studies, this article analyzes the impact of internal migration on living/production spaces, on the basis of Ka-difekale and surroundings. To understand the current spatial situation of the relevant set-tlement, the spatial codes in the original context, Mardin, were also examined, and how the spatial language lived in Mardin transformed into the spatial language lived in Izmir, and how it was transmitted especially by women were investigated. In the studies based on ethnography as a method, semi-structured interviews were conducted with women living in the relevant neighborhoods of İzmir and Mardin, in addition to the on-site observations. The most important output of the interviews is about the implicit but active role of migrant women in reorganizing and designing the spaces at their “destination.” In this framework, the similarities and differentiations between destination and origin spaces/spatial elements point to important data on the flexibility of migrants to reflect their cultures on spaces.
![Research paper thumbnail of Belleğin Şantiyeleri: Mimarlıkta Aklın ve Hayal Gücünün Rolü Üstüne [The Construction Sites of Memory: On the Role of Reason and Imagination in Architecture]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/110204187/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Betonart , 2023
On sekizinci yüzyıl mimarlığının önemli isimlerinden Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) ilk m... more On sekizinci yüzyıl mimarlığının önemli isimlerinden Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) ilk modern mimarlardan kabul edilir. Fakat bu kabul sadece geçmişe sadakat adı altında dönem mimarlarınca benimsenen tarihselci söylemin karşısında konumlandırılmış olmasından kaynaklanmaz. Ya da bu konumlanışın sebebi Piranesi’nin tarihselcilikle verdiği savaştır diyemeyiz; nitekim bu üretken mimar geçmişle ve/veya gelenekle savaşmaz. Bilakis, mimari gelenekleri korumanın ve yaşatmanın ilginç bir yolunu keşfeder: Borgesyen bir tabirle geçmişi yeniler, genişletir. Mimarlığın yapısal genlerine ait bu genişlemenin izleği ise iki farklı kurguda çizim diline aktarılır: Birincisi fiziksel dünyaya ait, geçmişten gelen mimari yapıların analitik çizimlerini ve yapım süreçlerinde kullanılan malzeme ve teknik aletlere dair açıklayıcı çizimleri kapsar. İkinci aks ise yapımı sınırsız zaman ve mekâna uzanır gibi tasarlanmış, hayal ürünü bir mimarlık dünyasına ait çizimlere karşılık gelir.
Her iki aks da Piranesi’nin belleğinde ürettiği Roma mimarlığı şantiyesinin bileşenleridir. Aklın önderlik ettiği analitik gözlemler, çizimler yoluyla tarihselci mimarlığın kurallarını ortaya dökerken, bu kurallardan oluşturulmuş temelin üstünde bu kez hayal gücünün önderlik ettiği yeni bir yapılanma baş gösterir. Nitekim Piranesi şantiyesinde temeli şekillendiren tarih, üzerinde yeni/modern kotların köklenmesine izin verecek esnekliktedir. Geçmiş esnemekte, genişlemekte, Calvino’nun Tecla görünmez kentinde olduğu gibi, adeta sonsuza dek sürebilecek bir şantiyeyi mimarın ve gözlemcinin belleğine işlemektedir.
Okumakta olduğunuz yazı, bu geniş bellekteki süreğen mimari izleri, şantiye kavramı üzerinden takip etmeyi deneyecek bir girişimdir.
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The Construction Sites of Memory: On the Role of Reason and Imagination in Architecture
Abstract
Considered one of the first modern architects, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), preserved and perpetuated architectural traditions by renewing and expanding the past in two different axes: The first includes analytical drawings of architectural structures from the past and explanatory drawings of the materials and technical tools used in their construction processes. The second axis corresponds to the drawings of an imaginary world of architecture, the construction of which seems as if it extends into an immense time and eternal space. This paper is an attempt to follow these traces in Piranesi’s vast memory through the concept of the construction site.
Tasarım Kuram , 2023
The concept of aesthetic has been transformed and re-contextualized through the consecutive centu... more The concept of aesthetic has been transformed and re-contextualized through the consecutive centuries to find a stable place in the discipline of architecture. We may claim that the stability has been generally provided by spaces having the power of affecting its experiencers emotionally by the help of sensory perception. The discipline of phenomenology set the theoretical scene for such experience quality in architectural spaces, which can be analyzed in historical, social, and religious contexts. In this framework, the article aims to emphasize the significance of the relationship between the disciplines of aesthetics and architecture in Turkey through the aesthetic image of the spatial atmosphere via the evaluations of experiencers of the mosques in traditional and modern styles to comprehend the image of aesthetic experience. Methodologically, the analysis is based on an online questionnaire to understand the perceptual differences of the survey participants based on the image of aesthetic experience in these two different mosque styles. In conclusion, the Sancaklar and Selimiye Mosques show that, although the experiencers were open to the new concepts in contemporary mosque designs, their religious teachings with the traditionalist background generally prevent them adopting the Sancaklar Mosque. Thus, the majority of the survey participators preferred to visit and pray in the Selimiye Mosque as the masterpiece of the Ottoman style while the Sancaklar Mosque reflecting the modern approach was found insufficient to manifest the traditional Islamic language that the survey participators are accustomed to.
Environment, Space, Place (ESP), 2022
Atmosphere in architecture acts as a communication tool between the space and its experiencers. T... more Atmosphere in architecture acts as a communication tool between the space and its experiencers. This tool has the potential of being detached from the physical environment and conveyed by memories and imagination, which may augment the physical environment in a poetic way. This paper aims to demonstrate this potential by utilizing the technique of comparative reading using unmanipulated photographs of physical space, computer-generated film/ images of the same space, and a spatial narration/text, all in the context of Japanese architecture. By viewing this context from a lens focused on the intersection of aesthetics, phenomenology, and architecture, the study points out the possibility of utilizing atmosphere as a tool to convey ideas and augment the aesthetic experience through different techniques of representation. In this way, it highlights the importance of the narrative quality of spatial atmosphere in architectural design, and its potential as a transposable spatial identity.
Philosophy East and West, Project MUSE, 2022
The aesthetic comprehension of space is a process of transforming the user into an experiencer an... more The aesthetic comprehension of space is a process of transforming the user into an experiencer and narrator. In Japanese architecture, spatial narration is a method of constructing a bridge between the experiencer and space. This article examines the role of spatial narration as a design tool for spatial atmosphere by considering two acclaimed projects of contemporary Japanese architecture.
Meltem Journal of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy , 2020
In the history of housing, balconies always appear as an important threshold between indoor and o... more In the history of housing, balconies always appear as an important threshold between indoor and outdoor as well as between private and public life. In the transformative story of housing , we observe that, as new spaces have been introduced into design solutions, some spaces have undergone transformations or evolved like an organism, and some of them have gradually become subject to shrinking, or even extinction. In the current case of Izmir, the balconies generally fall into the last category, as prosthetic thresholds. Therefore, in this study, we tried to reveal the transformation story that extends to near extinction of balconies, by making comparison , and display that there is a legible difference between the late modern and post-modern cases of multi-storey housing-blocks in Izmir. The difference gives clues about possible transformations in inhabitants' lifestyles , besides referring to the condition of balconies in contemporary design solutions.
A|Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 2018
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is an important Italian architect with his seminal theses ... more Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is an important Italian architect with his seminal theses in the debates on the ‘origins of architecture’ and ‘aesthetics’. He is numbered foremost among the founders of modern archaeology. But Piranesi was misinterpreted both in his day and posthumously. One of the most important vectors of approach yielding misinterpretation of Piranesi derived from the phenomenon comprising the early nineteenth-century Romanticist reception of Piranesi’s character and work. Therefore, the present study firstly demonstrates that such observations derive not from an investigation of the work itself, nor from an appraisal of the historical context, but owe to the long-standing view in western culture that identifies the creator’s ethos with the work and interprets the work so as to cohere with that pre-constructed ethos. Thus the paper aims at offering a new perspective to be adopted while examining Piranesi’s works. This perspective lies within the very scope of understanding the reasons of the misinterpretations, the post-Romanticist perception of the ‘artist’, and Piranesi’s main arguments on the aesthetics, origins of architecture, and law.
A|Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 2018
T he politics of central government or incentives determine new design-systems of housing plots a... more T he politics of central government or incentives determine new design-systems of housing plots as well as housing units. Especially after the enactment of the law of urban regeneration for risky areas, regeneration of areas under disaster risk, there has been an acceleration in knocking down old buildings and constructing new ones in inner cities. Thus, this paper focuses on the changes in housing typologies in Hatay-Izmir, in terms of space syntax parameters through the time period 1960-2000, and interprets the final plan-solutions within the perspective of urban regeneration.
By accelerating implementations of the urban transformation projects in Hatay region, alternative plan-typologies coming from the past have undergone the socalled “re-design and transformation” process; however, they have actually been substituted by the “never-changing” plan-templates of the apartment typology. We will examine these changes in plan typologies and spatial organisations of the mentioned apartment-projects on the same plots by utilizing the method of space syntax and visibility analysis (VGA). Transformations in spatial configuration in two periods are interpreted through their relationships to shifts in meaning of privacy and daily life represented by degree of permeability and connectivity of housing-unit-plans based on spatial analysis.
TOL, 2017
Özet: Günümüz Türkiye'sinde son dönemde gerçekleştirilen toplu konut projelerinde mimari özellikl... more Özet: Günümüz Türkiye'sinde son dönemde gerçekleştirilen toplu konut projelerinde mimari özelliklerde, çevresel donatılarda, peyzaj ve hizmet alanlarında sergilenen çeşitlenmeye karşın, konut birimleri şaşırtıcı şekilde çoğunlukla birbirini tekrar eder niteliktedir. Farklı gelir gruplarına, kentin çeşitli noktalarında üretilen toplu konutların neredeyse tamamı, konut birimlerinin mekânsal organizasyonu açısından mekanik bir tek tipleşme arz etmektedir.
Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 2015
This study aims at suggesting a new evaluation perspective for the Kano model, which is one of th... more This study aims at suggesting a new evaluation perspective for the Kano model, which is one of the well-recognised quality-measurement methods in total quality management. The purpose behind this suggestion is to be the first to integrate the Kano model into the cases of architecture to explore architecturaldesign quality, which is difficult to measure because of the flexibility of design and changing user-perceptions. Therefore, the study undertakes mass-housing units which are among the unique examples of standardised design quality in architecture. The conventional Kano model, in this respect, already helps understand the perceived quality of the units; however, the suggested manner of evaluation enhances the interpretation of Kano scores by introducing further polarised sub-categories. The new suggestion was also tested with a survey in six different mass-housing cases in Izmir-Turkey in terms of the quality of spatial organisation of the units. Flexibility of interpretation provided by the suggested Kano-reading is revealed with the survey-results comparatively, at the end of the paper.
![Research paper thumbnail of Barok Aynalar: D’Espinay d’Etelen ve Velázquez’de Kendi İçine Dönen Mekân
[Baroque Mirrors: D’Espinay d’Etelen and Velázquez’s Imploding Worlds]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/56581760/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Skopbülten, 2013
ABSTRACT
In the Baroque period, the figure of the “mirror” had been undertaken within parallel c... more ABSTRACT
In the Baroque period, the figure of the “mirror” had been undertaken within parallel conceptions and put in competition with painting, which paved the way for the emergence of many new and intertwining concepts. These conceptions were also related to the discipline of architecture, for that, the “mirror” was a figure multiplying the “space,” thus, playing with the very boundaries of architecture. If the “mirror” was Baroque or in-between the discourses about Baroque, then the space became “imploded,” which led to the questioning of the relationship between the observer and observed with the parallel concepts in this context. While examining the Baroque mirrors, the two seminal works that we may refer to are the 1656 painting of Las Meniñas by Diego Velázquez de Silva (1599-1660), and the poem of Sonnet du Miroir by Louis d’Espinay d’Etelen’in (1604-1644). Although d’Espinay d’Etelen has not been known as much as Velázquez, his work expresses the Baroque culture to just the same degree as Velázquez’s work, as will be shown in this paper. As is known, the codification of the concept of mimesis—which has rooted in antiquity—as the Neoclassical style was in the seventeenth century. This codification comprises the main idea of both works by Velázquez and d’Etelen. Although this text begins by reading d’Etelen’s sonnet, it may be useful to view Velázquez’s famous painting while reading the poem.
ÖZET
Barok dönemde ‘ayna’ figürünün, resimde ve şiirde birbirine paralel anlayışlarla işlenmesi ve resimle yarıştırılması, birbiri içine giren pek çok yeni kavramın doğmasına yol açmıştı. Bu anlayışlar, ‘ayna’nın esasen ‘mekân’ı çoğaltan bir figür olması sebebiyle mimarlık disiplinini de ilgilendirmekteydi. ‘Ayna’nın Barok olması ya da Barok hakkındaki söylemlerin arakesitinde yer alan bir ‘ayna figürü’ olması ise, mekânı ‘kendi içine’ döndürürken, izleyen-izlenen arasındaki ilişkinin ve bu bağlamda ortaya çıkan kavramların da sorgulamasını beraberinde getirmekteydi. ‘Barok aynalar’ı bu kavramlar doğrultusunda incelerken referans alabileceğimiz iki önemli eser 1656’da Diego Velázquez de Silva (1599-1660) tarafından yapılan Las Meniñas [Nedimeler] adlı tablo ile Velázquez kadar tanınmış olmayan, fakat Barok kültürü aynı oranda ifade eden, Louis d’Espinay d’Etelen’in (1604-1644) Sonnet du Miroir adlı şiiridir. Çıkışı antikiteye rastlayan mimesis kavramının Neoklasik tarz olarak kodifiye edilmesi, bilindiği gibi, on yedinci yüzyılda gerçekleşmiştir. Bu kodifikasyon, hem Velázquez hem d’Etelen’in eserlerinin ana temasını oluşturmaktadır. Ana tema, paragone (resim ve şiir arasındaki çekişme) kavramına dayanmakta ve insan, nesne ve mekân üzerine yansımaktadır. Bu sebeple, Barok dönemdeki ayna figürünü Velázquez’in Las Meniñas’ı ve d’Etelen’in Sonnet du Miroir’ı üzerinden karşılaştırmalı olarak ele almak, Barok dönemdeki resim ve şiir sanatları arasındaki ilişkiyi anlamanın yanı sıra yine bu dönemdeki mekân kavramını anlamamızı da sağlayacaktır.
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Skop Dergi , 2012
Romalı tarihçi Sallust’un Bellum Jugurthinum (Jugurthine Savaşı, M.Ö. 112) eserinden bir alıntı o... more Romalı tarihçi Sallust’un Bellum Jugurthinum (Jugurthine Savaşı, M.Ö. 112) eserinden bir alıntı olan yukarıdaki cümle, İtalyan mimar, mühendis, mimarlık tarihçisi, arkeolog ve yazar Giovanni Battista Piranesi’nin (1720-1778) Parere su l’architettura’sının (Mimarlık Üzerine Düşünceler, 1765)[2] IX. Levhasında resmettiği yapının üstünde yer alır. (Resim 1 ve 2) Alıntının Piranesi’nin mimarlık tarihi argümanı açısından önemi büyüktür. Ancak arkasındaki niyet, en basit biçimde, alıntıdaki iki kelimenin analizi yapılarak anlaşılabilir: yenilik ve korkaklık. Kelimeler, Sallust’un alıntısındaki bire bir anlamlarının yanı sıra, Aydınlanma döneminin çok yönlü yapısını çağrıştırırcasına -Piranesi’nin entellektüel ve mesleki durumunun da ispat ettiği üzere- birden fazla anlam katmanı barındırmaktadır. Dolayısıyla buradaki yenilik kelimesinin özgürlük, sanat ve tasarlama eylemini kapsadığı, korkaklık kelimesinin ise bağımlılık, zanaat ve kopyalama eylemine karşılık geldiği söylenebilir. Birbirine zıt çağrışımlar barındıran bu ikili ifadeler çoğaltılabilmekle birlikte, Piranesi üzerinden gerçekleştirilecek bir inceleme, kelimeler arasındaki zıtlık durumunu sorgulamayı da gerektirmektedir. Nitekim gerek kendi dönemindeki, gerekse ölümünden sonraki mimar ve araştırmacılar tarafından karanlık, aşırılık, irrasyonellik, abartılılık, tuhaflık ve saçmalık maskesi giydirilen, Romantiklerin, avangardın, mimar ütopistlerin, ve hatta Gotik romancıların öncüsü olarak kabul edilen Piranesi zıtlıkları bir araya getirir. Onun gerçek yüzü, kendisine yakıştırılan yargıları desteklermiş gibi görünen Carceri, Grotteschi, Vedute (manzara resimleri), capriccio tarzında çizimleri, iç mekân ve mobilya tasarımları ile bu yargıları yalanlayan ikonografik, inşai, arkeolojik yer ve yapı analiz çizimlerinden oluşmaktadır. Piranesi’nin, geçmişe bağımlı olmadan geçmişten referans alabilmek, sanatı zanaatının parçası haline getirebilmek ve kopyalamadan özgür düşünceyle tasarım yapabilmek, kısacası ezber bozabilmekteki becerisi, değinilen ikili ifadelerin arasındaki ilişkiyi zıtlıktan iç içeliğe taşımıştır. Piranesi’de arzu mimarlığı işlev kazanmış, fiziksel dünyada karşılığı olmayan çizimler, mekânları olmasa da, düşünceleri inşa etmiştir. Aşağıdaki yazı bu becerinin, metin, çizim ve mimarlık üzerindeki yansımalarını ele almaktadır.
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Mekânlaşan ve anlatılaşan mekânın, deneyim odaklı devinimin sürekliliğini amaçlayan doğasına ait izler, tarih içinde kültürler temelinde takip edildiğinde karşımıza derin bir etki olarak Japon mekân estetiği çıkmaktadır. Japon kültürüne ait, özellikle din ve coğrafya temelli olgular gerek mekânda gerekse sözde yer edinmiş, kültürün nesiller arasında aktarımını sağlayan genetik kodları haline gelmiştir. Dolayısıyla Japon kültüründe bir mekân ile bir şiir karşılaştırıldığında, bu iki aracı şekillendiren yaratım niyetleri, aktarılan olgular ve sunulan mesajların birbirine koşut olduğu görülebilir. Mekânın tasarımında rol oynayarak onu var eden söz ile şiir sanatıyla aktarılan mekânsal deneyim, Japon kültürünün genlerinde yer alan farklı estetik kodlar ile okunabilir. Bu kodlardan biri, birbirine zıt kavramların simbiyotik var oluşuna işaret eden ve literatüre Kurokawa Kisho’nun kazandırdığı hanasuki estetik etkisidir. Mekânı yaratan kavramlar/dil ile dilde/söz’de yaratılan mekân hanasuki estetik etki temelinde ele alındığında her iki bağlamda da okunabilirlik kazanır.
Bu çalışma, mekânı kodlayan / var eden estetik etkiyi öncelikle Japon mimarların mekân tasarımında estetiğe odaklanan açıklamaları üzerinden, ardından Japon şairlerin eserlerinde karşımıza çıkan mekânsal tarifleri/göndermeleri aracılığıyla okumayı planlamaktadır. Mekândaki söz olan Japon mimarlığı ile söz’de mekânlaşan Japon mimarlığında, zıt kavramların simbiyotik bir aradalığından doğan estetik etkinin, deneyimleyen ve deneyimlenen (özne ile nesne) arasında özel köprülerle bağladığı mekânsal yapı incelenecek, yer yer Batılı izlekte bulduğu karşılıklara da değinilecektir.
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The word aesthetic has been generally found dangerous by architects. The subjective values related to aesthetics play a role in the perception of the discipline as related to ambiguous notions, in today’s architecture. However, the heart of the discipline resides in the universally recognized qualities/values in the periods of both when it was coined by Aleksander Gottlieb Baumgarten in the eighteenth century and when it was handled with the twentieth century’s phenomenological perspective toward the spatial atmosphere. While aesthetics in today’s architectural design trend proceeds on the basis of sensory experience and sensation, it also includes the concept of emotion that emerges behind this experience and sensation. Thus, while the atmosphere of space becomes the aesthetic object of architecture, it can be said that the phenomenon it corresponds to is a structure consisting of multi-layered architectural components and an organism that can be called more than this structure, including the experiencers and their pasts, and therefore constantly changing. At this point, it seems inevitable for the spatialized space to continue spatializing and thus become a narrative.
When the traces of the nature of the spatializing and narrated space, aiming at the continuity of the experience-oriented movement, are followed on the basis of cultures in history, we encounter Japanese space aesthetics as a profound effect. The phenomena of Japanese culture, especially based on religion and geography, have taken place both in space and in words, and have become the genetic codes that ensure the transfer of culture between generations. Therefore, when a space and a poem are compared in Japanese culture, it can be seen that the creation intentions that shape these two tools, the phenomena conveyed and the messages presented are parallel to each other. The words that play a role in the design of the space and create it, and the spatial experience that is conveyed by the poetic can be read with different aesthetic codes in the genes of Japanese culture. One of these codes is the hanasuki aesthetic effect, which points to the symbiotic existence of opposite concepts and was brought to the literature by Kurokawa Kisho. When the concepts/language that creates the space and the space created in language/words are considered on the basis of hanasuki aesthetic effect, it gains legibility in both contexts.
In this framework, the current study plans to question and read the aesthetic effect that encodes/creates space, first through the explanations of Japanese architects focusing on aesthetics in spatial design, and then through the spatial descriptions that we encounter in the works of Japanese poets. The content of the study focuses on the concept of contrast, which has aesthetic and philosophical foundations in Japanese culture and language and is based on a dynamic and symbiotic relationship, through texts describing the spaces belonging to this culture. The spatial structure connected by special bridges by the aesthetic effect arising from the symbiotic coexistence of opposite concepts in Japanese architecture corresponding to the word in the space and Japanese architecture in the word will be examined, and the correspondence of this effect, which takes place between the experiencer and the experienced (subject and object), in the Western theme, will also be referred.
Therefore, the texts are divided into two groups on the basis of a view (as words in the space) that can be seen as the reflection of cultural codes in the language, and readings of the representational existence of which the space is reconstructed through the references in the language (as space in the word). While the first group is trying to understand the aesthetic codes that appear in the language of the physical creation of the space through the explanations made by Japanese architects on the basis of aesthetics, the second group focuses on understanding the components and structuring of the same aesthetic codes by looking at the representation of the space in literary texts. The aim is to show that the basis of space creation and representation practices that shape Japanese architecture, in theory, corresponds to one of the aesthetic effects that have deep roots in this culture, hanasuki, which is born from the dynamic and symbiotic unity of contrasts. Understanding the past can guide the future: approaching the deficiencies and reservations about aesthetic tendencies in contemporary Western and Eastern architecture, including all architectural traditions and cultures, by looking at the relationship between Japanese aesthetic philosophy and architecture, which has a deep history in this field, can serve as a guide for us on the way to solution and progress.
Japon kültüründe zaman farklı bir anlayışla algılanır ve yaşanır; bu da mekânın inşası için yeni olanaklar ve varoluş kipleri meydana getirir. Zaman, döngüsel/dairesel bir zamansallık yapısı izler ve geçiciliğiyle süreksizliği, tekrarıyla da geçiciliğin kalıcılığını sağlar. Hem geçmiş hem de gelecek, dilde olduğu gibi mekânsal tasarım kültüründe de iç içe geçmiştir. Dil ve yaşam felsefesi, zamansal bir mekânsallığın inşasına yönelik mimari ve estetik yaklaşımları yansıtır. Bu mekân-zamansal atmosferlerin olgu bilimsel üreticileri, ma, mu ve kū gibi anahtar kavramların yanı sıra, örneğin mono no aware, shakkei, wabi-sabi ve hanasuki gibi estetik kavrayışlar aracılığıyla yankılanır. Kusurlu ve süreksiz güzelliğe duyulan sevgi, geleneksel bağlamda Japon mekân atmosferinin genidir denebilir.Bu çerçevede, makale, Japon mekân tasarımının döngüsel zaman anlayışı ile bu anlayışa bağlı estetik kavrayışlarını yansıtan üç projeyi incelemektedir: Sugimoto Hiroshi tarafından tasarlanan Yaz Gündönümü Işık Tapınağı 100 Metrelik Galeri ile Kış Gündönümü Işık Tapınağı Tüneli / Işık Kuyusu ve Ando Tadao tarafından tasarlanan Benesse Oval Evi. Bu üç örnek, Japon kültürünün zaman ve mekânı nasıl anladığını ve ifade ettiğini mükemmel bir şekilde göstermektedir. Bu projelerden hareketle makale, aynı zamanda, zamansallığın, mekânda var olabilmesi için zamana bir kabuk örmeyi amaçlayan Japon kültüründeki en güçlü mekânsallık kiplerinden biri olduğunu savunmaktadır.
Her iki aks da Piranesi’nin belleğinde ürettiği Roma mimarlığı şantiyesinin bileşenleridir. Aklın önderlik ettiği analitik gözlemler, çizimler yoluyla tarihselci mimarlığın kurallarını ortaya dökerken, bu kurallardan oluşturulmuş temelin üstünde bu kez hayal gücünün önderlik ettiği yeni bir yapılanma baş gösterir. Nitekim Piranesi şantiyesinde temeli şekillendiren tarih, üzerinde yeni/modern kotların köklenmesine izin verecek esnekliktedir. Geçmiş esnemekte, genişlemekte, Calvino’nun Tecla görünmez kentinde olduğu gibi, adeta sonsuza dek sürebilecek bir şantiyeyi mimarın ve gözlemcinin belleğine işlemektedir.
Okumakta olduğunuz yazı, bu geniş bellekteki süreğen mimari izleri, şantiye kavramı üzerinden takip etmeyi deneyecek bir girişimdir.
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The Construction Sites of Memory: On the Role of Reason and Imagination in Architecture
Abstract
Considered one of the first modern architects, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), preserved and perpetuated architectural traditions by renewing and expanding the past in two different axes: The first includes analytical drawings of architectural structures from the past and explanatory drawings of the materials and technical tools used in their construction processes. The second axis corresponds to the drawings of an imaginary world of architecture, the construction of which seems as if it extends into an immense time and eternal space. This paper is an attempt to follow these traces in Piranesi’s vast memory through the concept of the construction site.
By accelerating implementations of the urban transformation projects in Hatay region, alternative plan-typologies coming from the past have undergone the socalled “re-design and transformation” process; however, they have actually been substituted by the “never-changing” plan-templates of the apartment typology. We will examine these changes in plan typologies and spatial organisations of the mentioned apartment-projects on the same plots by utilizing the method of space syntax and visibility analysis (VGA). Transformations in spatial configuration in two periods are interpreted through their relationships to shifts in meaning of privacy and daily life represented by degree of permeability and connectivity of housing-unit-plans based on spatial analysis.
In the Baroque period, the figure of the “mirror” had been undertaken within parallel conceptions and put in competition with painting, which paved the way for the emergence of many new and intertwining concepts. These conceptions were also related to the discipline of architecture, for that, the “mirror” was a figure multiplying the “space,” thus, playing with the very boundaries of architecture. If the “mirror” was Baroque or in-between the discourses about Baroque, then the space became “imploded,” which led to the questioning of the relationship between the observer and observed with the parallel concepts in this context. While examining the Baroque mirrors, the two seminal works that we may refer to are the 1656 painting of Las Meniñas by Diego Velázquez de Silva (1599-1660), and the poem of Sonnet du Miroir by Louis d’Espinay d’Etelen’in (1604-1644). Although d’Espinay d’Etelen has not been known as much as Velázquez, his work expresses the Baroque culture to just the same degree as Velázquez’s work, as will be shown in this paper. As is known, the codification of the concept of mimesis—which has rooted in antiquity—as the Neoclassical style was in the seventeenth century. This codification comprises the main idea of both works by Velázquez and d’Etelen. Although this text begins by reading d’Etelen’s sonnet, it may be useful to view Velázquez’s famous painting while reading the poem.
ÖZET
Barok dönemde ‘ayna’ figürünün, resimde ve şiirde birbirine paralel anlayışlarla işlenmesi ve resimle yarıştırılması, birbiri içine giren pek çok yeni kavramın doğmasına yol açmıştı. Bu anlayışlar, ‘ayna’nın esasen ‘mekân’ı çoğaltan bir figür olması sebebiyle mimarlık disiplinini de ilgilendirmekteydi. ‘Ayna’nın Barok olması ya da Barok hakkındaki söylemlerin arakesitinde yer alan bir ‘ayna figürü’ olması ise, mekânı ‘kendi içine’ döndürürken, izleyen-izlenen arasındaki ilişkinin ve bu bağlamda ortaya çıkan kavramların da sorgulamasını beraberinde getirmekteydi. ‘Barok aynalar’ı bu kavramlar doğrultusunda incelerken referans alabileceğimiz iki önemli eser 1656’da Diego Velázquez de Silva (1599-1660) tarafından yapılan Las Meniñas [Nedimeler] adlı tablo ile Velázquez kadar tanınmış olmayan, fakat Barok kültürü aynı oranda ifade eden, Louis d’Espinay d’Etelen’in (1604-1644) Sonnet du Miroir adlı şiiridir. Çıkışı antikiteye rastlayan mimesis kavramının Neoklasik tarz olarak kodifiye edilmesi, bilindiği gibi, on yedinci yüzyılda gerçekleşmiştir. Bu kodifikasyon, hem Velázquez hem d’Etelen’in eserlerinin ana temasını oluşturmaktadır. Ana tema, paragone (resim ve şiir arasındaki çekişme) kavramına dayanmakta ve insan, nesne ve mekân üzerine yansımaktadır. Bu sebeple, Barok dönemdeki ayna figürünü Velázquez’in Las Meniñas’ı ve d’Etelen’in Sonnet du Miroir’ı üzerinden karşılaştırmalı olarak ele almak, Barok dönemdeki resim ve şiir sanatları arasındaki ilişkiyi anlamanın yanı sıra yine bu dönemdeki mekân kavramını anlamamızı da sağlayacaktır.