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Galata Lectures at the Ottoman Bank Museum
The Rise and Fall of a Pera Architecture
The series of lectures on Galata and Pera, delivered by recognized academics in conjunction with the exhibition, Galata through the Ages - on view at the Ottoman Bank Museum through August 26 - comes to a close with the presentation of Prof. Uğur Tanyeli from Yıldız Technical University, on Wednesday, July 6, at 6:30 p.m. In his lecture entitled, "The Rise and Fall of a Pera Architecture," Tanyeli examines the transformation of a specific Pera architecture and the cultural change experienced within the context of the modernization of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Addressing the emergence of a Pera architecture, which, from the 1820s up to the 1930s, began to develop separately from the local architectural tradition of Istanbul, Uğur Tanyeli will focus on cultural change as a vital imperative for modernization not only in Istanbul, but in the entire Eastern Mediterranean region.
The exhibition, Galata through the Ages, aims to draw the attention of visitors to this historic district which played a crucial role in the transformation Istanbul began to undergo in the 19th century. Although it symbolized, for many decades, the commercial and cultural life of the city, Galata has, today, become somewhat marginalized and is on the brink of being forgotten.
For further information on this free lecture offered by the Ottoman Bank Museum, contact: (212) 334 22 70.
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UĞUR TANYELİ was born in 1952, in Ankara.After graduating from the Department of Architecture, at the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1976, he began working as a research assistant in the Academy's History of Architecture Department. He resigned from this post in May,1982, and transferred to the same department at Istanbul Technical University. From 1989 to 1990, he was visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan. In 1992, he was made associate professor at Anadolu University and since August 1998, he has served as full professor in the Faculty of Architecture at Yıldız Technical University.Tanyeli has published three books and more than 100 articles. His rsearch concentrates in particular on "Ottoman Architecture and Turkey in the Modernist Period." In addition, since 1989, Tanyeli has served as publishing coordinator for the architecture magazine Arredamento. |
GALATA LECTURES
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 6:30p.m.
Prof. Uğur Tanyeli
Yıldız Technical University
Faculty of Architecture
The Rise and Fall of a Pera Architecture
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