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At the Ottoman Bank Museum
Urban Texture and Architectural Styles after the Tanzimat The series of monthly seminars, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean," organized by the Ottoman Bank Museum in collaboration with Alpha Bank and the History Department at Boğaziçi University, will welcome this month Prof. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, from the Department of Visual Arts and Design at Başkent University. Prof. Yenişehirlioğlu will be giving a presentation in English entitled, "Urban Texture and Architectural Styles after the Tanzimat," on Friday, October 21, at 5:00 p.m. Illustrating her lecture with examples from Greece and Istanbul, Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu will discuss the changes occurring in the urban fabric, architectural styles and inhabitants of Ottoman cities, after the Tanzimat. The formation of new institutions, in this period, required the importation of plans and building types unknown before the 19th century. As new governmental, educational, commercial and military buildings were introduced to the cities, both domestic architecture and interior decoration changed. Shaped by the modernist approach of the times and supported by the regulations of the Tanzimat, a new type of citizen emerged, needing new social spaces to circulate and to socialize in. After graduating from the Arnavutköy American College for Girls, Yenişehirlioğlu studied art history at the Sorbonne University where she obtained her BA, MA, and Ph.D in the same discipline. From 1976 to 2002, she taught Islamic and Ottoman art, at both graduate and undergraduate levels, at Hacettepe University and, since 2003, she has been dean of the Department of Visual Arts and Design at Başkent University. In 1986, Yenişehirlioğlu also participated, as guest researcher, in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, at Harvard. Her numerous published works on art history, include: Le Programme Décoratif des Edifices Ottomans au cours du XVI ème siècle, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Ankara, 1985; Ottoman Architectural Works Outside of Turkey, T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı Kültür Genel Müdürlüğü Yayınları (in Turkish and English), Ankara, 1989 and (with Fatih Müderrisoğlu, Suat Alp and Mustafa Akpolat), Mersin Evleri, T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı Yayını, Ankara 1995. The monthly seminar series, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean," focuses on the Greek Orthodox populations of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Seminar speakers provide comprehensive information on the subject and display special awareness of the delicate historical context. Admission to the seminars is free. Prof. Alexandra Yerolympos will be our next speaker at the conference scheduled for Friday, November 18th.
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