Back	At the Ottoman Bank Museum The Story of Beyoğlu... Prof. Atilla Yücel will be our guest speaker at the Voyvoda Street Istanbul Lectures this month, with a presentation entitled, Century Turns: the Story of a Beyoğlu Building and Street. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, October 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and admission will be free of charge Through the birth, life and new life (restoration) of a century-old building, the formerly named Soeurs Garde Malades Apartment, Yücel's lecture chronicles life in a Beyoğlu house over different century turns. "The 1890s to the 1900s, then the 1980s to the 2000s... In the background 1850s Beyoğlu: The religious missions, the nuns, the schools, the orphanages, the embassies, the Muslims, the Christians, the Jews... the homes and their dwellers, the occupants of the top floors, the wealthy Levantines and others, on the lower floors, the shop owners and the kapıcı (doormen)..." And the years in between: "The 1920s and after the Occupation, the new proprietors and tenants of the building. The 1950s onwards, a street and its transformation in time: Along the former Rue des Postes and its continuation, Tomtom Kaptan Sokak, from the former Grande Rue de Pera (today's İstiklal Caddesi), towards Tophane: transformations in the urban texture, in the type of buildings, changes in social topography and changes in the cityscape." Atilla Yücel was born in 1942, in Istanbul. After graduating in 1965 from the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, he served successively, from 1965 to 2002, as research assistant, associate professor and full professor in the same faculty. In addition to being, since 2005, a faculty member in the graduate program of Architectural Design at Bilgi University, he has participated in the programs of various international professional and academic bodies such as the Aga Khan Architecture Award, CIB, UNCHS, UNDP, and UIA-UMAR. Currently, besides his extensive professional publishing activities, Prof. Yücel actively pursues projects and applications in his own architectural firm, MarS.