Esma Igus

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University · Vacational School

Bu makale, Osmanlı Devleti’nin Hariciye Nazırı Mustafa Asım Turgut’un kızı, Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi mezunu Türkiye’nin ilk kadın mimarlarından ve Akademi Mimarlık Şubesinin ilk kadın akademisyeni Yüksek Mimar Leyla Asım Turgut’a dairdir. Çalışmanın temel amacı, kadın/mimarlık tarihine dair yapılan çalışmalara, Leyla Asım Turgut biyografisi...

This study concerns a soap factory built in the early years of the twentieth century in Ayvalık Soap factories which are described within the scope of immovable industrial assets of the region, are substantial in terms of the commercial life of Ayvalık, just like the olive oil factories. Soap factories having a crucial role in the industry-based sp...

Beyoglu, Istanbul and is at disposal of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University today. Abdulmejid I, had the Pavilion constructed in 1852 to welcome the visitors arriving at the port to the Tophana Military Installation. The Pavilion is still standing since the day of its construction. Its design belongs to the English William James Smith, who was the off...

This study is the second of the trilogy written / to be written by the author, on the urban and architectural history of Ottoman Istanbul. The first of the trilogy is “A District, A Mansion: Çemberlitaş Selim Bey Mansion” and this article which is called “A District, A Place of Temple: Cerrahpaşa Canbaziye Mosque” is the second. The last of the tri...

Turkish Migration Conference July 2016 /Vienna,

Tarihsel geçmişi uzun sürece dayanan kentlerde, iktidarlar tarafından istek ve bilinçle yapılan, eskiyi ortadan kaldıran, yeniye yer açan tarihi doku müdahaleleri, dolayısıyla da yıkarak yok etme eylemi tarihi çevre, kentsel hafıza ve mekânsal kimlikler açısından sıkıntılı bir alana işaret eder. Yıkımlarla, geçmişle bağın koparılması gerçekleştiril...

This article identifies the layout, side formation and interior systems of the mansion by the methodology of history of art, by examining the Çemberlitas Selim Bey Mansion, dating back to last periods of the Ottoman Empire, in terms of spatial identity, civic memory and historical neighborhood. Bu makale, Osmanlı'nın son dönemlerine tarihlenen Çem...

This article examines the life and works of British architect William James Smith and outlines his contributions to nineteenth century Ottoman architecture and presents his prominence as an architectural historian of nineteenth century British architectural work. Özet: Bu makale Osmanlı İmparatorluğu adına çalışan ilk yabancı mimarlardan biri olan...

The East, and consequently Ottomanculture was perceived as exotic and a magical world in the world of thought of the West from the 16th century onwards. Curiosity and interest in the exotic and magical Ottoman world was met by the albums prepared in the West, containing images of Ottoman culture with explanatory texts. As these albums were cultural...

Zerrin Bölükbaş�ı, born in late years of Ottoman Empire and got education of art in an Academy in early republican period, is one of the pioneer women sculptors in our history of art. Presenting herself as an active woman artisan in Turkey of 1950s, Bölükbaş�ı has been in harmony with the image of modern woman in a social life, by her posture towar...

Abstract: Beatrice Offor: A Female Painter of Tottenham from Victorian London. Beatrice Offor born in 1864 in the district of Sydenham, London, is a British Painter/ Artist who lived in the period of Queen Victoria and King Edward VIII. Since she spent the last years of her live in the district of Tottenham, London, she was identified as Woman Ar...

Leyla Turgut, one of the first woman architects of Republic Period, died in lstanbul in 1980. Leyla Turgut, from a family belonging ta Ottoman intelligentsia, donated her personal properties and some artistic objects to Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Museum of Paınting and Sculpture in her legacy. As is also understood from the name of Leyla...