Büyükada, its summer residences, and the bourgeois Ottoman interior at the turn of the twentieth century

Download

index.pdf

Date

2015

Author

Ceylanlı, Zeynep

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

289
views

167
downloads

This dissertation examines the social history of Büyükada specifically from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the interiors of summer residences through new sources on Büyükada. The changes in the economic, political, and social structure of the Ottoman capitalare put forth in order to comprehend the social characteristics of Büyükada as a summer resort close to Istanbul. As the main archival sources of this dissertation, the Ottoman Archives enriches the narrative on Büyükada published up to this time; Istanbul Provincial Newspaper announces information about the owners, size, location and price of the houses in the island, enabling the analyses on the urban, spatial, and social characteristics of Büyükada, whereas the Raymund Map marks the houses on the island demonstrating their construction material and position in the site; the plans from the Preservation Board display the spatial schemes of the houses; and the houses visited put forth the remnants of the bourgeois interior. The sources reveal that the Nizam district on the northwestern part of the island was inhabited by the wealthy section of the Ottoman society, where the ethnic diversity reflected the character of the Ottoman bourgeoisie. On the other hand, the central part of the island and its nearby neighborhoods were mainly resided by the people with lower income. Throughthis framework, the history of Büyükada and its bourgeois residents at the turn of the century are reassessed.

Subject Keywords

Vacation homes, Seaside resorts, Vernacular architecture, Middle class families, Architecture, Domestic

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12618649/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24545

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Housing the modern nation: the transformation of residential architecture in Ankara during the 1920s Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz; Altan, Tomris Elvan; Department of History of Architecture (2018) The dissertation examines the residential architecture produced in Ankara during the 1920s. Scholars have studied the traditional housing in the historic city of Ankara constructed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, as well as the modern housing constructed in the newly developed parts of the city during the period from the 1930s onwards; however, studies on the housing production of the first decade of the Turkish Republic in both the old and the new parts of Ankara are still insufficient. The p...
Historical contuinity: three modernist masters, their precedents and descendants Mollazadeh, Aslı; Balamir, Aydan; Department of Architecture (2014) The aim of this thesis is to uncover the relation between the concept of historical continuity and architectural modernism. Modernism in architecture has often been conceived as a movement that rejects history. The buildings of modernist masters have been seen alien to their environments and the cultural values of the society. Although there have been many studies disproving this widespread opinion, the continuing effects of modernist works on today's architectural environment haven't been fully understood....
The formation of a modern city: Antalya, 1920s-1980s Bölükbaş Dayı, Esin.; Altan, T. Elvan.; Department of History of Architecture (2019) This dissertation examines the place of the concept of “local” in architectural historiography by focusing on the modernization process of Antalya. The analysis of the process is realized within two major contexts. On the one hand, the “peripheral” position of Antalya in canonic historiography is discussed in the frame of center-periphery relations and central-local actors; on the other hand, the developments both in the city center and its hinterlands are examined through the dualities of rural and urban, ...
Transformation of the Ottoman built environment in the nineteenth century in Anatolia: the case of Tokat Kardaş, Ayşegül; Altan, Tomris Elvan; Department of History of Architecture (2011) In this study the Ottoman built environmet in the last period of the nineteenth century Anatolian city is examined. The study aims to explain the construction of new buildings as well as the transformation of earlier types during the process of contemporary modernization and centralization in the Empire. The main frame of the study is formed of the public and the private spaces that formed the urban built environment, and the transformation of these spaces. The city of Tokat has been chosen as the area of s...
Doubling: “italy, the new domestic landscape” as a historical project Mutlu Tunca, Gülru; Savaş Sargın, Ayşen; Department of Architecture (2009) Italian architectural historian and critic, Manfredo Tafuri, with his seminal book Theories and History of Architecture, issued in 1968, started a new era in the architectural discourse. With his eminent theorization of “architecture as the critique of ideology,” Tafuri had shifted the critique of architecture to a political and Marxist level and this revolutionary understanding had absolute impacts on the institutionalization of the American critical discourse after 1968. This study is a historical critici...

Citation Formats

Z. Ceylanlı, “Büyükada, its summer residences, and the bourgeois Ottoman interior at the turn of the twentieth century,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2015.