Büyükada’s Ageless Moderns – the Archive of Hasan Çalışlar
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/
“Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage | Questions that Break the Silence” – ASLI GERMİRLİ
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 […]
TRAVEL ARTICLE: “Vitra Campus, Weil Am Rhein and Basel Impressions” – ASLI GERMIRLI
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 […]
VIDEO: “ONE GIANT LEAP” – METE CEM ARABACI
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 […]
Travel Article: “A MELANCHOLY VIEW OF THE WORLD” – Cem Kaptan
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 […]
Article: “Privatisation of Council Housing” – Cem Kaptan
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 […]
News: The 15th National Architecture Exhibition and Awards, ‘Building’ Category Award: “TAC-SEV New Campus”
Article: “INSURGENT PUBLIC SPACES: USING THE PROCESS OF INSURGENCE AS AN URBAN DESIGN TOOL” – CEM KAPTAN
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 […]
News: “The New Power Station” is Shortlisted for Aga Khan Award for Architecture
