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A research on the representation of Turkish national identity : buildings abroad
Zelef, M. Haluk; Önür, Selahattin; Department of Architecture (2003)
This thesis is the result of an attempt to record, classify and develop an understanding of the motivations and dynamics in the design and realization of the buildings that explicitly or implicitly represent the Turkish identity abroad. In the meantime it is aimed to reflect on and identify the function of architecture and buildings in the formulation and representation of national identity. Besides the analysis of the meanings assigned to the architectural forms, one underlying intention was to clarify how...
A contribution to the irrigation water planning for the Karaman basin.
Toledo, Yeşua; Department of Civil Engineering (1970)
On critique of architectural image : reading Jean Baudrillard through Jean Nouvel
Uslu, İrem; Sargın, Güven Arif; Department of Architecture (2011)
The aim of this study is to question the relationality between conception of image, social condition of an era and architecture. With acceptance of a transition to a new kind of relationality in contemporary era, a trialectical analysis is carried on, in order to understand changes in this relationality and its effects on contemporary architecture. Image, mainly depicted as the tool for communication, loses its transcendental and ideal status and degrades to an artificial and tricky state under the contempo...
A contribution to the settlement analysis of foundations on Ankara clay with an empirical method.
Kula, Aydin; Department of Civil Engineering (1972)
On complex archaeologies: conceptualizing social complexity and its potential for archaeology
Daems, Drıes (2020-10-01)
This article surveys a number of approaches in complex systems thinking and their relevance for applications in the field of archaeology. It focuses in particular on the fundamental role of social interactions and information transmission as constituent elements for the development of organizational complexity on a community level. Given the impossibility of direct observations of these constituent interactions and practices, it is then outlined how this theoretical model can be applied on the material rema...
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