THE BALYANS Ottoman Architecture and the Balyan Archive

The 352-page book, printed in a limited edition of 500 copies on special paper and featuring a hard cover, is presented to readers with double, triple, and quadruple fold-out pages to allow for detailed viewing of important large-format images. It contains 158 rare photographs, including portrait photographs of the Balyan family, documents from international archives, seals, and invaluable plans, sections, and facade views.

FOREWORD

• Looking at the Balyan Architectural Archive / Arsen Yarman

• With Respect to the Balyan Family and Imperial Architects / HAYCAR - Association of Architects and Engineers Reviving and Researching Cultural Heritage

• Remembering the Balyans / Kevork Özkaragöz

GETTING STARTED

Chapter 1 / BALYAN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE

• Beyond Function: Balyan Architecture with Myths and Prejudices

• Balyan Archive: The Stack of Memory, The Adventure of Classification

• Architect Balyans

Chapter 2 / BALYAN FAMILY: PERSONAL HISTORIES

• The Balyan Family and Its Origins

• Krikor Bal(i)yan (1764-1831) and the Birth of the Family Workshop

• Senekerim Balyan (1768-1833)

• The Last Amira Architect Garabed Balyan (1800-1866)

• Education of Garabed Balyan's Children

• Young Genius Nigoğos Balyan (1826-1858)

• Architect, Engineer and Versatile Tanzimat Elite Sarkis Balyan (1831-1899)

• Death of the Great Grandfather, Changing Fortunes and the Last Period of the Balyan Workshop

• Sarkis Balyan as an Engineer-Mechanic and Inventor

• Art Patron, Intellectual Architect Hagop Balyan (1837-1875)

• Master of Drawing, Building Artist Simon Balyan (1846-1894)

• The Last Architect of the Balyan Workshop, Levon Balyan (1855-1925)

Chapter 3 / BALYAN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS

• Imperial Palaces and the Organization of Large Construction Sites: The Silence of the Construction Sites

• Photography in the Representation of Sarkis Balyan Architecture as a Claim to Progress and Visual Negotiation

• Portrait of the Architect

Chapter 4 / BALYAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE TANZIMAT PERIOD

• Transcending Time and Geography: The Plural Sources of Balyan Eclecticism
  
  
  • Neo-Gothic Elements in Tanzimat Architecture Under the Leadership of the Balyan Workshop
  
  
  • History as an Encyclopedic Source
  
  
  • An Egalitarian Demand: Influences in Çırağan and Beylerbeyi Palaces
  
  
  • New Methodologies in the Search for a National Style and the Ottoman Renaissance
  
  
  

• From Imperial Architect to Master Builder of the Imperial Palace: The Position of the Architect in the Architectural Organization of the Tanzimat Period

Chapter 5 / BALYAN ARCHIVE CATALOGUE

OTTOMAN PALACE AND RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE TANZIMAT PERIOD

• Dynastic Palaces on the Bosphorus Shores

• Sultan Mahmud II's Çırağan Palace

• The Absolute Model of Tanzimat Palaces: Dolmabahçe

• Design Model Where the Old Palace Was Included in the New Complex: Beylerbeyi

• Nigoğos Balyan's Facade Proposal for the New Çırağan Palace and Horror Vacui

• Sarkis and Hagop Balyan's Oriental, Polychrome Facade Proposals for the New Çırağan Palace

• New Çırağan Palace

• Monumental Coastline from Çırağan to Fer'iye Palaces

• Sarkis Balyan's Yıldız Palace Grand Mabeyn Pavilion Expansion Project

• The Balyans and Imperial Festivities in the Tanzimat Period

• A Project by Antoine Bourgeois in the Balyan Archive

• In Pursuit of the Ideal Plan: Pavilion and Kiosk Designs

• Kabataş Esma Sultan Mansion

• Middle-Class Housing Designs as an Exception in Balyan Architecture

DECORATION FOR THE EMPIRE

• 19th Century Ottoman Palace Decoration

• Perspective Drawings of "Serkis Bey" Found in the Nubar Library, Paris

• Paris-Origin Furniture, Chandelier, and Furnishing Designs in the Balyan Archive

• A Conceptual Reappropriation: Reuse of Mother-of-Pearl Doors from Çırağan Palace in the Yıldız Chalet Kiosk Banquet Hall

NEW SPACES OF OTTOMAN DIPLOMACY

• Sarkis Balyan's Arrangement for the Assembly of Deputies

• Sarkis Balyan's Plan Proposals for Bâb-ı Âli After the 1878 Fire

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

• Tanzimat Period Mosques and the Balyans' Contribution

• Sarkis Balyan's Four-Minaret Selatin Mosque Design: Aziziye Mosque

• Second Group of Mosque Drawings in the Balyan Archive

• Church Designs Between the Capital and the East

NEW SPACES OF PUBLIC LIFE

• Sarkis Balyan's Exhibition Plan for Mecmua-i Esliha-i Atika in Hagia Irene

• Educational Buildings

• Sarkis Balyan's Plan for Galatasaray Imperial High School

• Hospital Project in the Balyan Archive

• Simon Balyan's Design Proposal for Sarayburnu Warehouses

• Project for a Public Building and Landscape Design

MILITARY BUILDINGS

• Barracks Designs as Pioneers of the Order Principle in Architecture

• Maçka Armory

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS

• Dadyan and Balyan Collaboration in the Early Period of Ottoman Industrialization

• Feshane Imperial Factory

• Dolmabahçe Gasworks

IMPROVEMENT OF THE TANZIMAT CITY: BALYANS AND URBAN DESIGN

ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• On the Index of Balyan Buildings

• Index of Structures and Individuals