New interpretations of domestic space and life : the emergence of apartment buildings in nineteenth century İstanbul

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Melek (Gözübüyük), Dilşad

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This thesis attempts to study the architectural and the social changes brought by the multi-story apartment buildings which emerged in the nineteenth century Istanbul, in especially Galata-Pera region. A brief introduction to the modernization attempts of the Ottoman Empire, and also to the traditional dwellings and daily life of the Ottoman households before the nineteenth century constitute the first sections of the study. The architectural and the urban developments such as the new building regulations, architectural styles and building types as well as the social and cultural changes that brought new cultural habits and life styles in the modernization period, are also studied in this context. A group of apartments with different plans, size and locations are chosen as a sample so as to point out and discuss the layout of the constituent spaces like the halls, foyers, corridors, substantial rooms and wet spaces. Respectively the changing meaning of the ءhouse̕ and daily life are also pointed out. In relation to these, facade organizations, plans, functional and spatial features and the privacy of spaces in the sample apartment buildings and their flats, and the daily life and the privacy of the apartment residents are studied and discussed in comparison to the traditional Ottoman house and the contemporary Parisian apartments to present a comparative perspective. Consequently, ءsimilarities̕, ءdifferences̕, and ءinnovations̕ concerning the nineteenth century Istanbul apartments are discussed and listed at the end of the thesis. Several tables which are designed to contribute to the arguments presented in the study are also added to the thesis.

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General Social Sciences.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14777

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D. Melek (Gözübüyük), “New interpretations of domestic space and life : the emergence of apartment buildings in nineteenth century İstanbul,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2004.