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You can access the “Büyükada’s Ageless Moderns” archive of Hasan Çalışlar, one of the founding partners of Erginoğlu & Çalışlar , from the “Special Archives” tab on journalist and writer Nilay Örnek’s website ‘Her Umut Ortak Arar‘. Her Umut Ortak Arar – Nilay Örnekherumutortakarar.com/herumutortakarar.com/buyukada-yaslanmayan-modernler/
3-31 May 2024Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSFAU) Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art CenterSingle Dome Hall09.00-19.00 except for Mondays Time Scale is a survey exhibition delving into thirty years of architectural works by Erginoğlu&Çalışlar. A public program including talks and guided tours unpacking the architectural office’s practices across three decades will take place at the […]
The Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage has been a ghost building to me since my childhood, and I have accepted its presence to be a significant component of the island’s silhouette without questioning. Unexceptionally all the tourists, who manage to climb up the hill of the Hagia Yorgi Church and look towards the view of Kartal-Sedef […]
I had the opportunity to visit the Vitra Campus in Weil Am Rhein with my three colleagues from Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects as the guests of Vitra Furniture and Mozaik Design, representative of Vitra in Turkey. Vitra family successfully brought together numerous buildings designed by world famous architects to form their impressive campus. Seeing alive […]
One Giant Leap is a perspective of how human in the role of “architect” transformed the skin of the earth through evolutional process. Design consciousness was a milestone for the form of the materials. The architect who didn’t obey the rules of nature began to create its own built environment. As some may notice the […]
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As a nine year old boy I found myself crossing my first big border. Geographically being on the other side of a continent seemed so large then but that has since shrunk. Living constantly on a cultural front, trying to matter, adapting but not getting sucked in. You could say it was a constant rhetorical […]
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Introduction The role of council housing seems to have been distorted over the course of its lifespan. What was once successful social experiment that sheltered many people is now frowned upon and the term “council housing” itself has become a negative word association and the end to the not so easy on the eye, isolated […]
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Every now and then the traditional use for a carefully planned public space can be disregarded by the people that it was meant for and manipulated by these people to become a new area that carries a new social, spatial or economic dynamic. This emergence can also be interpreted as an insurgent movement that disagrees […]
