Architecture, empire, orientalism : essays on Late Ottoman and French colonial practices / Zeynep Çelik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Çelik, Zeynep, Author.

Series:

Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları (Series) ; 349.

Koç University Press ; 349.

Turkish and Ottoman studies: history, society, and culture ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Turkey--History.

Architecture.

Architecture and state--Turkey--History.

Architecture and state.

Architecture and state--Africa, North--History.

Islamic architecture.

Architecture, Ottoman.

Architecture, French colonial.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Oriental influences.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Essays on Late Ottoman and French colonial practices

Place of Publication:

İstanbul : Koç University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In this volume, Zeynep Çelik brings together her articles based on meticulous archival work since the early 1980s, keeping in mind the question about the constitution of archives. The essays in the first part of the book offer historiographical analyses and experiment with methods, while the second part presents hands-on case studies ranging from Cairo, Istanbul, Aleppo, and Jerusalem to Ankara, Tunis, and Fez, covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Çelik's essays expand the mainstream architectural history to include "non-traditional" topics and are linked by a theoretical perspective inspired by postcolonial scholarship and the critique of orientalism, and based on interdisciplinary empirical research."-- Back cover

Contents:

Introduction

pt. 1. Historiographies and methodologies.

Colonialism, orientalism, and the canon

New approaches to the "non-Western" city

Reflections on architectural history forty years after Edward Said's Orientalism

Speaking back to orientalist discourse

Cultural intersections : re-visioning architecture and the city in the twentieth century

Le Corbusier, orientalism, colonialism

Ethnography and exhibitionism at the Expositions Universelles / with Leila Kinney

pt. 2. Case Studies.

Urban preservation as theme park : the case of Soğukçeşme Street

From orientalist obsession to modernist canon : the voyages of the Sultan Ahmed Fountain

Late Ottoman visions of Palestine : railroads, maps, and aerial photography / with Zeinab Azarbadegan

Overlapping modernities : Jerusalem between the Late Ottoman Empire and the early British Mandate

We, the city of Istanbul, we are beautiful

Historic intersections

Framing the colony : houses of Algeria photographed

Gendered spaces in colonial Algiers

Learning from the Bidonville : CIAM looks at Algiers

Colonial statues and their afterlives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786256230606

6256230604

OCLC:

1533448924