Deniz Avci

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at İzmir University of Economics

This article evaluates module-based experiential education through the case of a junior-year interior architecture studio project for the adaptive reuse of the historical Yamanlar Sanatorium Complex in Izmir, Turkey. The project aimed to transform this example of Turkey’s 20th century Modern Movement healthcare heritage into a summer camp for unive...

1980 yılında inşası tamamlanan Taner İş Hanı, İzmir’in merkezi Konak ilçesinde, Halit Ziya Bulvarı üzerindedir. İzmir ili, Konak ilçesi, Akdeniz mahallesi, 996 ada, 7 parselde bulunan Taner İş Hanı 1225 metrekare tapu alanına sahiptir. Mimar Orhan Erdil tarafından tasarlanan yapının yüklenicisi Erdil İnşaat A.Ş.’dir. TKGM Parsel Sorgu’dan edinilen...

Bu çalışma daha önce biçimsel ve mekânsal özellikleriyle incelenmiş olan ama mediko-sosyal katmanları yeterince incelenmemiş olan Bursa’nın Uludağ mevkiinde bulunan ve mimarlar Prof. Dr Leman Tomsu ve Prof. Dr. Emin Onat’ın kariyerlerinde önemli bir mimari ürün olan Kirazlıyayla (Uludağ) Sanatoryumu’nu incelemektedir. Sanatoryumun 20. yüzyıl ortası...

İzmir, Konak’ta Şevket Özçelik Sokak üzerinde bulunan ve mimar Orhan Erdil tarafından tasarlanan ve 1976 yılında inşa edilen ve bu çalışma kapsamında incelenen yapı “Efes İşhanı” olarak bilinmektedir. İki bloktan oluşan yapıda, ana blok bodrum ve zemin kat üzeri sekiz katlıyken, ikincil blok bodrum ve zemin kat üzeri dört katlıdır. Bileşik nizamda...

Pulmonary tuberculosis has been a prominent representation of illness in theater and cinema since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Despite the growing understanding of tuberculosis as a contagious disease during the bacteriological era, the theater and cinema primarily emphasized its representational advantages. Rather than focusing on prop...

This paper investigates the spatial dimensions of the dichotomy between the pedagogical and clinical purposes of sanatoria, based on the examples of patient rooms in twentieth-century Turkish sanatoria. The intangible layers of sanatoria are explored with a focus on the tuberculosis patients as the primary actors, tackling the literary work on Mode...

Purpose Despite the quantity of collaborations, the vocational network of the housing production in Ankara during its first five years (1923–1928) remains dispersed. The aim of this study is to identify all the actors of housing production and their collaborations which shaped Ankara's urban development as the new capital city. Design/methodology/...

This study looks at the Istanbul Hilton Hotel, an important product of liberalism in architecture during the 1950s in Turkey. The dichotomies concerning the hotel, i.e., the reconciliation of East-West, contextualizes the architectonics of the hotel and evidently ascertains an “anxiety of the Orient” for the “foreign” tourists. This study aims to a...

In June 1939, the governor of Istanbul, Lütfi Kırdar inaugurated “an exhibition to fully demonstrate the decadal development of the nation in the industrial field.” It was the 11th Turkish domestic products’ exhibition, headlined by the exhibit “Istanbul on display” that showcased the contemporary renovations of Istanbul in architectural models. Kı...

The sanatoriums designed for tuberculosis (TB) treatment aimed to provide the patients convalescence mainly by two approaches: by encouragement to become part of social/public life while learning to live with TB, and by softening the feeling of “hospital-ness” in individualized rooms as spaces of convalescence. Despite their sterile appearances and...

wo capital cities, Tirana and Ankara, once united under the Ottoman banner, shared a similar urban development process ideologically and physically as they were designated the new capital cities under disparate national banners in 1920 and 1923 respectively. After the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, both cities witnessed a non-negligible tran...

Mount Uludağ provided romantic and dramatic settings for storytelling in Yeşilçam, the main moving picture industry of Turkey during the twentieth century. Consequently, Yeşilçam productions became tools to archive historical data, not only of the natural and the built environment of this new winter leisure, but also the socio-cultural profile of a...

Heybeliada, Kirazlıyayla and Süreyyapaşa Sanatorium Buildings were examples of Early Republican healthcare investments embodying resting house/hospital/sanatorium functions and were all initiated after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey as part of the modernization/westernization agenda which gives a specific care on sanitation, hygiene, a...

Housing production busied the construction industry in Ankara during the 1920s as the small Ottoman town was transformed into the new capital city of the Turkish Republic. To accommodate the rapidly increasing population, alongside traditional houses, new housing types emerged, and ‘apartments’ were introduced for the first time to the new capital...

Şehirlerde tarihi izlerin, yani geçmişi yeniden inşa etmek için gerekenlerin kalmadığı bir yapısal çevreyi hayal etmek acı vermektedir. Fakat, günümüzde şehirlerin hızla büyümesiyle birlikte tarihi kent merkezleri yeni inşa edilen bölgelerin arasında kalmış, unutulmuş ve terk edilmiş, dolayısıyla yapısal çevrenin bütünlüğü zarar görmüştür. Varlıkla...

The focus of this paper is the residential architecture of the capital city Ankara during the 1920s, which is investigated as part of the development of the city after the foundation of the Turkish Republic. It initially defines the main settlement zones of contemporary Ankara that transformed and were formed in relation with the contemporary devel...