In the context of 14th week’s ARCH484 course, we have discussed New York, the terrorist attack and the remembrance of the crisis that took place in 2001. The mentioned crisis was about the Twin Towers which were an iconic part of the New York silhouette until they were destroyed by the jet plane. The reasons for why the building collapsed were listed concerning the structure … Continue reading 2001 | New York Terrorist Attack
In the context of 11th week’s ARCH484 course, we have discussed Berlin and the issue of “Erasing the Urban Boundary” that took place after World War II in Nazi Germany. Dualities existed in terms of its regimen and this had also been seen in the urban typology of Germany and Berlin. After the impacts of the war, the reconstruction process had started and also in … Continue reading 1989 | Berlin
In the context of 10th week’s ARCH484 course, we have discussed Rotterdam and its reconstruction process after the carpet bombing which led its transformation from a historic to a modernist city. First of all, The Polder and The Water City were in a problematic condition due to the increases in the population and traffic flow so the history city was improper accommodating the increased traffic. … Continue reading 1944 | Rotterdam
In the 20th century, the most significant feature of İzmir was its fragmented typology seen in its plans. It is seen that there are many districts or neighborhoods with different approaches such as Turkish Neighborhood, Jewish Neighborhood and Armenian Neighborhood. Thus, the combination of them has emerged as a cosmopolitan culture and it obviously affected architecture, city and city planning. The mentioned culture has seen … Continue reading 1922 Great Fire of İzmir
We have discussed the changes occurred in Vienna after the Spanish Flu and World War under the name of “Red Vienna”, in the context of the eight week’s topic. Actually, the topic has filled affluently with information; although there are lots of options to discuss and compare with the modern cases, I have restricted the discussion topic and wanted to focus on the existence of … Continue reading 1919 – 1934 | Red Vienna
In the 19th century, Paris had been encountering several various rebellious acts which ended up as revolutions and led to the redesigning of Paris. As we also saw in the previous cases, narrow streets were a big problem due to the obstacles they created in the paths in terms of accessibility and dealing with rebellions. Thus, streets were enlarged and the hierarchy between the spaces, … Continue reading 1848 Paris
For the sixth week’s topic we have focused on a different aspect of urban form determinants which is earthquake and we have discussed it through the case of Lisbon since it had faced this disaster in 1755. In this context, the general outline of the presentation consisted of illustrating a general image of Lisbon before the earthquake, the impacts of the earthquake and the reasons … Continue reading 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
In the context of “Great Fire of London”, which took place in 1666, we have discussed the change in the shape or form of the city due to the new introduced crisis. First of all, it is remarked that after the renaissance the idea of ‘ideal city’ has been developed. In the previous lecture we have seen in the case of Bologna – Lucca expressed … Continue reading 1666 | Great Fire of London
We have learned that crisis have a significant role on cities and architecture; in this context we have analyzed Lucca and Bologna through the plague -Black Death- which is emerged in 14th century and affected whole the European cities. For this time, we –Berhan and I- were the ones who were responsible to scrutinize the case and we tried our best but the topic was … Continue reading 1330 Black Death | Lucca & Bologna
In the context of the third week’s lesson we have discussed Premodern Chinese City and since the topic of the course is Crisis, City and Architecture we have taught it in accordance with Flood and its impact on the city planning, architecture, social life and so on. It is known that floods are the essential parts of the city for the Chinese people, as a … Continue reading Premodern Chinese City – Floods and the Water City
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