Genius Loci: How Do We Relate to “Place”
I remember this story that my professor once told about her memory from an architectural competition organized for a new building at the campus of the university where she was studying at [...]
The Knight The Lady and The Dragon in the The Plečnik Award
Designed by Sanja Jurca Avcı, The Knight, The Lady and The Dragon exhibition is shortlisted at The Plečnik Award. The award presents the most prestigious national award in the field of [...]
Steven Holl – Scale
Steven Holl is one of the current practitioners of the phenomenology of architecture. Following Written in Water (2002), this is the second publication devoted to Steven Holl’s legendary [...]
“the intensity of unmanned spaces”
Emin Mete Erdoğan’s “Entangled Cern Plans” and Sergen Şehitoğlu’s “0dB” individual exhibitions meet with art spectators simultaneously at Sanatorium between the dates 25th of April – 25th of May [...]
Biopolis: a model for a new urban culture
In 1965, Enrico and Luzia Hartsuyker launched Biopolis: a model for a new urban culture. It served as an alternative to the growing post-war urbanisation in the Netherlands which created [...]
On the Subject of Ceramics on Façades
On the subject of ceramics on façades, what comes to my mind first is Renzo Piano’s IRCAM building in Paris. I used to visit Paris for a while very often. Actually, I was very [...]
Interview with Selçuk Avcı in the Architectural Review
Turkey’s booming economy is ripping out the cultural and historical heart of Istanbul, laments Selçuk Avcı. Go to link > Turkey is a ‘European’ country rare among its peers in having a booming [...]
