Title Architecture in translation : Germany, Turkey, and the modern house / Esra Akcan

Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012 ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: Translation beyond language -- Modernism from above. A conviction about its own translatability -- Melancholy in translation -- Siedlung in subaltern exile -- Convictions about untranslatability -- Toward a cosmopolitan architecture Summary Esra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking architects to oversee much of the design of modern cities. Focusing on the period from the 1920s through the 1950s, Akcan traces the geographical circulation of modern residential models, including the garden city—which emphasized green spaces separating low-density neighborhoods of houses surrounded by gardens—and mass housing built first for the working-class residents in industrial cities and, later, more broadly for mixed-income residents. She shows how the concept of translation—the process of change that occurs with transportation of people, ideas, technology, information, and images from one or more countries to another—allows for consideration of the sociopolitical context and agency of all parties in cultural exchanges. Moving beyond the indistinct concepts of hybrid and transculturation and avoiding passive metaphors such as import, influence, or transfer, translation offers a new approach relevant to many disciplines. Akcan advocates a commitment to a new culture of translatability from below for a truly cosmopolitan ethics in a globalizing world. -- Publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Architecture -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century City planning -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century Architecture and state -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century 21.62 history of architecture. ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism. ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General. ARCHITECTURE -- Regional. ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Architecture Architecture and state City planning International relations Architecture -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century. City planning -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century. Architecture and state -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT Turkey -- Relations -- Germany Germany -- Relations -- Turkey Subject Germany Turkey Turkije. Duitsland. Turkey -- Relations -- Germany. Germany -- Relations -- Turkey. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822395577 0822395576 1283542064 9781283542067 9786613854513 6613854514

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