A COMMENT INSIDE OUR INCORPORATE ARCHITECTURE
The arrangement of the environment by humankind first started in the darkness of Stone era. Once the natural shelters were starting to be inadequate, they started building their own. After a while as more shelters were built , there were arenas, streets and districts developed. All these developments was a foundation for the evolution of humankind.
The structures which are built by humankind for their survival are called incorporate architecture or civil architecture. All these structures were formed depending on the weather conditions, geographical topography, material variety, life style and economical outcome of the region.
After moving to Anatolia the Turkish race which had chosen to be nomad back in Central Asia, became settled. After the settlement the products of incorporate architecture started to get developed. As a result, the evolution of local, regional and national architecture had begun...!
The values which help a nation to be a real nation are the unity of the language, religion and race. In other words, the basic needs of being a nation are the unity of culture values, the roots of the culture, customs, traditions and beliefs. In the unity of culture values, the evolution of architecture language with incorporate architecture earn importance. And this architecture language is assorted by the change in regions and creates the values of traditional civil architecture. All the products of civil architecture (out of architect and drawing products) compose our national and public architecture.
The inherited national architecture of ours, which has an important role in creation of a real nation, has to be protected, kept alive and permanent...!As a result, we would be attached to our national values and by carrying it to the next generations we would complete the most significant duty for our nationality...!
Nail Cakirhan, an important news writer and an author, first started Akyaka Homes in 1970 by erecting his own house with the help of carpenters from Ula. His house in Akyaka, which had won a award called Aga Han, played an important role in keeping incorporate architecture and local architecture alive and happened to be a reference to all our nation. In addition, it had a great support on keeping the civil architecture values and architecture culture alive.
A patio and a courtyard, two important characters of our rich architecture culture, can be observed in Nail Cakirhan's house in Akyaka. His house had became a reference in terms characteristics of local structures to those who started building in 1975. In addition, with the support of the Akyaka vicinity and our architect colleagues, the incorporate architecture had become the description of Akyaka. The most significant participators of this description or Ula and Mugla civil architecture samples.
As the interpretation of our incorporate architecture has won the award of Aga Han, the local, regional and the protection of our national architecture, its durability and keeping it alive has proven to be an important act. First of all and essentially those who are responsible for the development of the new construction laws, the land use laws, the regulations and also all governors and architects should be the supporters of our Turkish civil architecture and identify it directly, face to face and unconditionally.
A little judgment of our near past...!
The modern architecture trend, western mimicry, which had started with concrete in 1940s, came to point of denialing our own architecture culture...!
Tin jars
Tin boxes
Concrete walls
Have started invading our country...!
And still the invasion is keeping spreading...!
The architects, who are advocates of this invasion, have dissolved in to the race of forming the best looking building denying our national values rather than producing out of exceptional and proper buildings...!
SHOULD BE AWAKEN...!
THEY SHOULD BE AWAKEN...!
In this invasion, I would like to thank and present my greetings to Sedat Hakki ELDEM, who is an important, successful architect and my colleague, due to his productions which are attached to our local, regional and national architecture values standing away from the denial of the universal architecture and also his great supports towards keeping our national architecture alive and together.
We as architects have a significant responsibility in keeping our national architecture, regional architecture and local architecture alive and active. In order to keep our architecture language active; The Ottoman and Seljuk compositions should be precisely analyzed and interpreted in the perspective of contemporary structure. And we as architects should carry the responsibility, hope and the belief to complete our designs attached to these values...!
The Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish architecture values which are very rich and the basics of our national architecture should be carefully examined and reflected in our designs in order to arrive to the precise and correct conclusion...!
The interpretation of universal architecture language with national, regional and local architecture language over the same platform will bring perfection to our architecture World and will be a solution for the change of the western mimicry which denies our architecture culture...!
We should leave our untouched culture without degeneration as a legacy to the following generations...!
Tevfik TOPRAKCI
Architect
10.06.2008
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