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FRAGMENTS OF
LIVING IN ARCHITECTURE - FOLIA
The 4th.
period Board of Directors of Istanbul Independent Architects Association
(İSMD) headed by Doğan Tekeli applied to the EU in August
2007 with its architectural Project named “FRAGMENTS OF LIVING IN
ARCHITECTURE” (FOLIA), which has been prepared to benefit from the
Professional Associations Aid Program implemented to develop Non-Governmental
Organizations Dialog between the European Union and Turkey and has been
considered worthy for the grant in July 2008.
One of the
legislative conditions for the Project to be accepted is the partnership of
İSMD with an equivalent organization in Europe. Therefore, a partnership
agreement has been signed with the German Architects Union Bundes Deutscher
Architekten (BDA). On the other hand, a cooperation with Bilgi
University and EU Foundation has been foreseen in the application.
The agreement on
the 1-year Project composed of a TV serial with 13 episodes where Architecture
is described with local and foreign examples, and 2 conferences on architecture,
organized in Paris and Istanbul, has been signed between İSMD and the
Undersecretariat of Treasury/Central Finance Contract Unit on 9 July 2008.
The 5th Board of
Directors, elected in 2009, and headed by Doğan Hasol,
carried out the FOLIA Project
under the leadership of İSMD Vice-President Oğuz Öztuzcu, as it has been
from the beginning of the Project.
Information:
- This Project is financed by the European Union and is carried out by ISMD,
with the coordination of the European Union General Secretariat.
- The authority concerned with this Project is the Central Finance Contract
Unit.
- This web page has been prepared with the contribution of the European Union.
ISMD is responsible for the content of the page and the page does not reflect
the views of the European Union.
Project Director and General Coordinator
Oğuz Öztuzcu / ISMD Vice President
Film Content and Production Coordinator
Aslı Özbay
Project Secretary
Dilek Safer
EU Consultant
Gözde Onaran
General Consultant for Content
Aydan Balamir
The Episodes
1. Architecture is Life / Atilla Yücel / (Click to watch)
2. Architect and its Client / Doğan Tekeli
(Click to watch)
3. Strolling Around a City / Şükrü Kocagöz (Click to watch)
4. Architecture, Trace of the City / Ertuğ Uçar (Click to watch)
5. Settling in the World / Emre Arolat (Click to watch)
6. Making a Place in the World / Ömer Kanıpak (Click to watch)
7. Localisation, Innovation, Placelessness /
Şengül Öymen Gür (Click to watch)
8. Architecture as Time's Barometer / Faruk Şahin
(Click to watch)
9. The Fake and The Real in Architecture / Abdi
Güzer, Kadri Atabaş (Click to watch)
10. Architecture as a Cultural Investment / Suha Özkan (Click to watch)
11. Transformation: Revitalization, Alteration /Asuman
Yeşilırmak, Güzin Konuk (Click to watch)
12. Green Architecture / Ayşe Hasol Erktin (Click to watch)
13. The Future and Architecture / Abdi Güzer, Kadri Atabaş (Click to watch)
Film Production
Doğuş Publishing NTV
Editor
Heves Atasoy
Assistant Coordinator for Content
Selda Bancı
Producer
Uğur Danış
Cameraman
Haluk Asar
Sound
Sungun Babacan
Interview Shootings
Serap Dalmış
Broadcaster
Dogus Publishing NTV
Paris Conference
SFA, Societe Française des Architectes
Societe Française des Architectes (SFA), Paris
Istanbul Conference
YEM, Yapı-Endüstri Merkezi, İstanbul / Building Information Centre
Official Project Partner
Bundes Deutscher Architekten, BDA,
Berlin
BDA Representative
Olaf Bahner
Other Partners in the Project
Bilgi University
EU Foundation
Grants and Funding
European Union Central Grants and Public Contracts Agency
Sponsorship Consultant
Ayşegül Yaman Saygın
Graphic Design
TUT Ajans
Within the
framework of the Project, a TV serial composed of 13 episodes of 22 minutes each
has been prepared.
- The serial has been broadcasted in August, September, October and November
2009, by Turkey’s most prestigious national television channel NTV,
reaching the appropriate target audience.
- The serial will be distributed to local television channels in Turkey, head of
departments in Faculties of Architecture in the universities, libraries and
Chamber of Architects and local administrations
- Transmission
will be also be made to organizations in Turkey, such as local administrations.
Architecture is
Life
The first episode serves as the introduction to the whole series, focusing
mainly on the concept of spatial quality and emphasising that architecture is
not confined to individual buildings, but also encompasses the urban
environment. The point is made that high quality spaces enrich daily life, while
poor quality spaces undermine the quality of life, and that the members of
society need to be aware of this. Guests: Atilla Yücel (episode consultant),
Feride Çiçekoğlu, Sema Topaloğlu and Alparslan Ataman.
Architect and its
Client
This episode emphasises the fact that good architecture depends on good clients
as well as good architects. The relationship between client and architect is
examined through six examples: Middle East Technical University campus, the
Lassa Factory, the Turkish Historical Institute, Istanbul Stock Exchange Annex,
Konak Square and a holiday resort in Assos. When client intervention is
beneficial and when injurious to architecture is examined in the light of
examples recalled by guests: Doğan Tekeli (episode consultant), Oğuz Öztuzcu,
Behruz Çinici, Ersen Gürsel, Han Tümertekin, Uğur Tanyeli, Emine Cansever Öğün
and Edip Serter (hotel owner).
Strolling Around a
City
The theme of this episode is how cities can achieve spatial character and
individuality by means of good design and good planning. Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara
and Barcelona are taken as examples. The importance of works of art in defining
pedestrian areas, squares, waterfronts or urban meeting points is discussed. The
fact that shopping centres, which have proliferated in Turkey in recent years,
offer an alternative to “secure miniature city centres” and the importance of
reviving city centres is stressed. Guests: Şükrü Kocagöz (episode consultant),
Ersen Gürsel, Hasan Özbay, Murat Tabanlıoğlu, Baykan Günay (city planner) and
Josep Acebillo (former chief municipal architect in Barcelona).
Architecture,
Trace of the City
The first impressions created by coach terminals, railway stations, airports and
similar buildings that we use when arriving in a city by land, air or sea are
enrichened by the public areas and landmark buildings that we experience as we
enter deeper into the city. The theme of urban spaces that have been designed is
discussed with reference to Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg and Madrid, and
contributions from Ankara and Istanbul with their distinctive characteristics.
The methods used by local governments when organising urban spaces in European
cities is also discussed. Guests: Ertuğ Uçar (episode consultant), Pelin Tan
(sociologist), Massimiliano Fuksas, Carmen Amoros (Madrid Municipality
official), Volker Roscher (Hamburg BDA Chairman), Juan Carlos Montiel (Barcelona
Municipality official) and Baykan Günay (city planner).
Settling in the
World
What are the dwellings of your dreams? Villas, soaring towers of luxury flats,
condomiums, walled housing estates? Can dwellings in our cities really be
“homes”? Are those who look on from the outside considered to the same extent as
those who live in them? What makes a quality dwelling? Are the low-priced
dwellings built by the state really cheaply produced? How is social housing
provided in EU countries? This crucial issue is examined not just from the point
of view of quality design, but of social life, sustainable cities and modernism.
Guests: Emre Arolat (episode consultant), Joaquin Torres, Dürrin Süer Kılıç,
Carmen Amoros (Madrid Municipality official), Joaquin Pascual (Barcelona
Municipality official) and Nuran Ünsal.
Making a Place in
the World
This episode looks at the educational and work places where we spend so much
time and which add meaning to our lives. Contributions made by the quality of
spatial environments to our educational and working lives are discussed with
reference to successful examples of school and office buildings: ODTÜ College
Social Centre, Erenköy Fevziye School, Ankara TED College, Johnson Wax building,
the Milli Reasürans building in Nişantaşı, and the SGK (former BA⁄KUR) Head
Office. What impact does a school’s architectural quality have on the
development and character of students. Why is the “architectural competition”
method necessary, particularly for public buildings? Guests: Ömer Kanıpak
(episode consultant), Haydar Karabey, Semra Uygur, Kerem Erginoğlu, Hasan
Çalışlar and Mürşit Günday.
Localisation,
Innovation, Placelessness
The concept of “place”, which is one of the most fundamental aspects of
architecture, is examined in terms of its effects on space and social life: What
is architecture that is “appropriate for its place”? What are the difficulties
of creating a new and original architecture in a place (such as Cappadocia) with
a strong identity? Why is a sense of ”Placelessness associated with
metropolises? How do new shopping centres exploit this issue? These are some of
the questions to which answers are sought in this episode, with reference to
Demir Holiday Village in Bodrum, Akdurak House in Urla, urban structures
(bridges, street stalls, sculptures) in Eskişehir, two hotels in Cappadocia,
Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona and shopping centres in Üsküdar Square.
Guests: Şengül Öymen Gür (episode consultant), Oktay Ekinci, Derya Akdurak and
Murat Uluğ.
Architecture as
Time's Barometer
We expect architecture to reflect the cultural climate of its age. Only then can
works of architecture be evaluated as “works of art”. Why do buildings that
imitate an earlier period rather than reflect their own time lack the art
dimention. In this respect why are the buildings in Keçiören, a district of
Ankara, unsatisfactory? Is architecture the only branch of art that is obliged
to reflect the concept of time consistently? How are the characteristics of a
period interpreted in the light of other art fields? Why do public buildings
have a privileged and more significant position in this respect? The
relationship between architecture and time is examined through the examples of
the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mosque, Bilkent Mosque, Kocatepe Mosque, and
the works of the architect Sedad Hakkı Eldem. Guests: Faruk Şahin (episode
consultant), Aydan Balamir, Murat Uluğ and Erkut Şahinbaş.
The Fake and the
Real in Architecture
When popular culture reflecting the tastes of our consumer society is employed
in architecture in order to be “different”, the result is “artificial” worlds
like those on our southern coast. Hotel complexes imitating the Kremlin or
Topkapı Palace, artificial waterfalls with concrete rocks rather than the
natural environment that we have failed to preserve, fake historic houses made
of concrete to replace the real historic houses that have been demolished, and a
widespread phenomenon of recent years;, lawcourt buildings resembling
caravanserais, have invaded our cities. This episode examines the dissappearing
“sense of reality” and looks at how architecture should respond to changes in
the age we live in. Guests: Abdi Güzer (episode consultant), Aydan Balamir,
Doğan Tekeli and Oktay Ekinci.
Architecture as a
Cultural Investment
With the comprehension that iconic structures with distinctive authentic
attributes can become cultural investments generating generous profit,
developments in this venue have gained momentum. The architectural race which
has sprung in the ‘80’s on and about museums, was transported in the ‘90’s and
2000’s to urban scale. The novel identity and prestige bestowed upon the
hitherto little known city of Bilbao thanks to the impact of the Guggenheim
Museum, became the hallmark achievement of this approach. In this episode the
topic why architecture is the most permenant cultural investment is discussed
with examples from Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Rotterdam and Amsterdam where the
usage of architecture as cultral invesment is regarded as a “civilisation
yardstick”. Guests: Suha Özkan (episode consultant), Massimiliano Fuksas, Aydan
Balamir, Anneke Abhelakh (NAI - historian) and Maarten Kloos (founder of ARCAM).
Transformation,
Revitalization, Alteration
Industrial buildings or harbours that have lost their function have been
reutilised for new functions. Such transformation zones have been used in cities
like Amsterdam to meet social housing needs, in cities like Barcelona to create
new business and recreational areas, or in cities like Berlin as a means of
erasing tragic memories of the past and viewing the future with hope and
confidence. Transformation projects in which the concept of “mixed use” is
foremost are discussed in this episode, with examples that include Santral
Istanbul and Bursa Merinos in Turkey. Guests: Güzin Konuk and Asuman Yeşilırmak
(episode consultants), Mario Rupert (Barcelona), Volker Roscher (Hamburg), Cafer
Bozkurt, ıhsan Bilgin, Ali Osman Öztürk and Hasan Kalcı (investor).
Green Architecture
The built environment is one of the highest consumers of energy. For example we
know that construction rubble constitutes 50% of the world’s solid waste. In
recent years architects have endeavoured to design buildings with minimum energy
consumption. An example of this on an urban scale is the Ijburg settlement in
Amsterdam. Successful examples of low energy buildings in Europe and Turkey that
combine environmentally friendly design with quality architecture are presented
in this episode, which discusses the concepts of social and physical
sustainability. Guests: Ayşe Hasol Erktin (episode consultant), Volker Roscher
(Hamburg), Flora Van Gaalen (Amsterdam), Josep Acebillo (Berlin), İhsan Bilgin,
Serhat Akbay, Abdi Güzer and Hüseyin Bütüner.
The Future and
Architecture
Concepts of the future and architecture have direct relations with technology.
The expectation that buildings designed to utilise sophisticated technological
materials and methods will stamp their mark on the future has changed since the
earth began to emit danger signals. Technology is no longer identified with
showy mega-structures that challenge nature, but with approaches that lend
support to nature in the built environment. Sustainability is the issue on which
the architecture of the future is based. This episode looks at how social and
technological developments will affect our lives and our architecture, and how
architecture is responding to these developments, illustrating these subjects
with examples. Guests: Kadri Atabaş (episode consultant), Ayşen Savaş, Hüseyin
Kahvecioğlu, Gökhan Avcıoğlu and Doğan Hasol (ISMD chairman).
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