Modernism and Nation-Building Turkish Architectural Culture in
the Early Republic - $45.00s paperback (9780295981529) Add to
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Listing: Architecture Middle East Studies - Bibliographic
information: 380 pp., 240 illus., notes, bibliog., 7" x 10" -
Territorial rights: world - Series: Studies in Modernity and
National Identity Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award
sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of
the M. Fuat Koprulu Book Prize in Turkish Studies sponsored by
the Turkish Studies Association With the proclamation of the
Turkish republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, Turkey's
political and intellectual elites attempted to forge from the
ruins of the Ottoman Empire a thoroughly modern, secular,
European nation-state. Among many other public expressions of
this bold social experiment, they imported modern architecture
as both a visible symbol and an effective instrument of their
modernizing agenda. They abandoned the prevai