In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking architects to oversee much of the design of modern cities. Focusing on the period from the 1920s through the 1950s, Akcan traces the geographical circulation of modern residential models, including the garden city which emphasized green spaces separating low-density neighborhoods of...
In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation ...
In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking architects to oversee much of the design of modern cities. Focusing on the period from the 1920s through the 1950s, Akcan traces the geographical circulation of modern residential models, including the garden city which emphasized green spaces separating low-density neighborhoods of...
In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation ...
