1960-80 Republican Period Of Turkish Architecture


In this study 1960-80 republican period of Turkish architecture was discussed. In this content, firstly the atmosphere of the architecture and then architectural works and trends that were occurred in this period were described. Turkey was the scene of many developments in terms of political, social and economic since the 1960s. The developments such as urbanization phenomenon that occurred parallel to the development of industry and trade or pluralistic world view and its new concepts which were the results of multi-faceted relations with the West were not so much on the agenda before. In this context, many changes occurred during this period with the 1960 military coup and it was studied under four sub-headings, including political and institutional developments, the role of the architects that was changing in the society, developments in architecture schools and education systems, economic and sectorial developments. The architectural practice and ideas/thoughts, emerging in a democratic and pluralistic atmosphere were compiled under two sub-headings: practice/buildings and architectural thoughts and trends. The building types that stand out in this period are holdings, symbolizing the transition of architectural practice from government to private sector, industrial buildings as a result of developed industrial activities, education buildings, urbanization which emerged with the industrialization and increasing population and urban-scaled studies for the solution of housing problems, holiday village and summer houses as a result of revival of domestic tourism. The influential architectural thoughts and trends in the practice of these buildings are rationalist-purist approach whose influence was increasingly descending, organic architecture, multi-partial approach, brutalism, new monumentality and symbolism, new regionalism and postmodernism that began to have an effect with a few applications.


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Republican period of 1960-80, Turkish architecture, Building types, Architectural ideas/thoughts and

Author : Derya ELMALI ŞEN -- Reyhan MİDİLLİ SARI - Ayşe SAĞSÖZ – Selda AL
Number of pages: 541-556
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.7590
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Journal of Turkish Studies
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