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Architecture in translation : Germany, Turkey, and the modern house / Esra Akcan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akcan, Esra.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Turkey--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- City planning--Turkey--History--20th century.
- City planning.
- Architecture and state--Turkey--History--20th century.
- Architecture and state.
- Turkey--Relations--Germany.
- Turkey.
- Germany--Relations--Turkey.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Esra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Translation beyond language
- Modernism from above. conviction about its own translatability
- Melancholy in translation
- Siedlung in subaltern exile
- Convictions about untranslatability
- Towards a cosmopolitan architecture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613854513
- 9781283542067
- 1283542064
- 9780822395577
- 0822395576
- OCLC:
- 820731358
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613854513
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