Architektur und Politik: Ernst Egli und die türkische Moderne 1927–1940

Oya Atalay Franck
Architektur und Politik: Ernst Egli und die türkische Moderne 1927–1940

2012. 16.5 x 24.5 cm, softcover with flap
267 pages, 175 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-255-1
CHF 58.00 / EUR 54.00
German

Designed by Philippe Mouthon

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Unlike in Western Europe and North America, where modernity was the result of a process of social, cultural and artistic evolution spanning many centuries, it took on the character of a national project in Turkey. This project was contradictory in itself, because the young republic pursued two objectives that were difficult to reconcile: bringing Turkey closer to the West and at the same time differentiating it from it. The publication analyses various aspects of this project using the example of a single actor of that time – the Swiss-Austrian architect Ernst Egli (1893–1974).