Esra Akcan
Biographic Data
| ID | 535012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esra Akcan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esra |
| FAMILY NAME | Akcan |
| SIGNATURE | AKCAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9083-5698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Architecture and Resettler Nationalism: Demographic Engineering during and after the Christian-Muslim Partition of 1923
This article theorizes on resettler nationalism while discussing the architectural impacts of partitions and compulsory mass migrations that have drawn the borders of modern countries. It concentrates on the resettling process after the “Exchange of Populations” ( Antallagi/Mübadele , 1923) between Greece and Turkey, which was in effect a partition dividing the Christian and Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire. It argues that the national an…
The Verandah between Climate Determinism and Climate Consciousness
This article explores the architectural typology of the verandah by following its use in residential buildings during the post-Ottoman British colonization and Independence periods in Sudan and differentiating between the concepts of climate determinism and climate consciousness. It brings new archival family photographs and fieldwork to discuss a modern Sudan that is curiously absent from the scholarship of both African and Islamic architecture …
How Does Architecture Heal
This article follows the demolition of the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) in Istanbul to make a case that architecture has historically been a platform for the ruling powers not only to erect their monuments, but also to act out their aggression and erase the past. At the same time, the article posits the AKM as a short-lived exception, due to its construction process as a palimpsest, its potentially participatory stage design, and the temporary r…
Translations in Architecture
In a recently discovered photograph of German architect Bruno Taut's retrospective exhibition at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, which opened on 4 June 1938, Taut in-exile stands with Erica Taut and his assistant Şinasi Lugal in front of a display (see Figure 1). What interests me in this image is not so much the frontal figures who posed for it as the documentary value of the exhibit in the background, the photographs inside the photograph. T…
Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure, and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum
This article was first presented at the “Cold War Culture” symposium, May 4–5, 2007, Columbia University. The research was partly carried out in the archives of the Getty Research Institute and the Library of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. I thank the staff of both institutions for their helpful guidance to the relevant documents and books. I also thank the editors of New German Critique for their criticism and suggestions. Finally, I than…
Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut's Translations out of Germany
Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure, and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum
This article was first presented at the “Cold War Culture” symposium, May 4–5, 2007, Columbia University. The research was partly carried out in the archives of the Getty Research Institute and the Library of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. I thank the staff of both institutions for their helpful guidance to the relevant documents and books. I also thank the editors of New German Critique for their criticism and suggestions. Finally, I than…
Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut's Translations out of Germany
Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure, and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum
This article was first presented at the “Cold War Culture” symposium, May 4–5, 2007, Columbia University. The research was partly carried out in the archives of the Getty Research Institute and the Library of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. I thank the staff of both institutions for their helpful guidance to the relevant documents and books. I also thank the editors of New German Critique for their criticism and suggestions. Finally, I than…
Translations in Architecture
In a recently discovered photograph of German architect Bruno Taut's retrospective exhibition at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, which opened on 4 June 1938, Taut in-exile stands with Erica Taut and his assistant Şinasi Lugal in front of a display (see Figure 1). What interests me in this image is not so much the frontal figures who posed for it as the documentary value of the exhibit in the background, the photographs inside the photograph. T…
How Does Architecture Heal
This article follows the demolition of the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) in Istanbul to make a case that architecture has historically been a platform for the ruling powers not only to erect their monuments, but also to act out their aggression and erase the past. At the same time, the article posits the AKM as a short-lived exception, due to its construction process as a palimpsest, its potentially participatory stage design, and the temporary r…
Architecture and Resettler Nationalism: Demographic Engineering during and after the Christian-Muslim Partition of 1923
This article theorizes on resettler nationalism while discussing the architectural impacts of partitions and compulsory mass migrations that have drawn the borders of modern countries. It concentrates on the resettling process after the “Exchange of Populations” ( Antallagi/Mübadele , 1923) between Greece and Turkey, which was in effect a partition dividing the Christian and Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire. It argues that the national an…
The Verandah between Climate Determinism and Climate Consciousness
This article explores the architectural typology of the verandah by following its use in residential buildings during the post-Ottoman British colonization and Independence periods in Sudan and differentiating between the concepts of climate determinism and climate consciousness. It brings new archival family photographs and fieldwork to discuss a modern Sudan that is curiously absent from the scholarship of both African and Islamic architecture …
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