Turkiye I

                                                          Nef Flats 163.



¨Histories of modern architecture have tended to identify and analyze a single metropolitan tradition.  These histories found their examples in a limited number of locations, in Western Europe and the United States, and could be more appropriately the accounts of works of selected architects rather than comprehensive histories of contemporary world architecture. Indeed, it was probably not the intention of studies in modern architecture to be inclusive or even illustrative. Still, the rest of the world has also built and has, in the last fifty years, transformed itself physically to an even greater extent than the celebrated places of modern architecture. The models used for this transformation have for the most part been derived from the metropolitan tradition or later from the International Style. But all the while there has also existed an alternate search for a regionally based and regionally recognizable idiom in the newly built enviroment.
(...) There is the question whether architects in peropheral countries are capable of making major contributions to the universe of building and architecture at large or whether they will continue to be constrained by the economic and technological limitations of their peripherality.¨
       
          Modern Turkish Arquitecture. Renata Holod and Ahmet Evin.1984.