Author
Turan, Burcu Yiğit
Publication Date
2016-05
Publication Place
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Informa Group Company
Subject
Hermann Jansen, Ankara, Modernist landscape, Nation-building
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
2164-604X
Record ID
4f23405a-2bbe-4c3d-ab9d-eaa9b9ec7814
Library Location
Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Date
2016-05
Notes
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Sample Text
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal and the Kemalist revolutionaries believed that the new Turkey should be a ‘modern’ democracy and also a ‘green’ country in line with positivist science and modernist culture. In this context, the landscapes of Republican Ankara would become an experimental field for this Turkish nation-building and modernization. This article traces the development of modernist landscape ideology during the early Republican Era in Turkey and its translation by planner and architect Hermann Jansen into detailed design ideas for Ankara. It illustrates the interaction between Jansen’s cutting-edge social and landscape architectural ideas and the Anatolian landscapes after the First World War. Finally, it more widely defends the value of the fantasized and partly realized modernist landscapes of Ankara as part of the urban collective memory in Turkey and the modernist cultural heritage.
DOI
10.1080/18626033.2016.1185230
Cilt
11
