{"product_id":"ekrem-erk-mimarligi-the-architecture-of-ekrem-erk","title":"Ekrem Erk Architecture","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe book titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEkrem Erk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMimarlığı\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Architecture of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEkrem Erk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, which presents architect Ekrem Erk’s architectural journey based in Istanbul and Vienna since the 1970s through his projects, was published in Turkish and English by YEM Yayın.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTo read Ekrem Erk’s perspective on architecture from his own and his colleagues’ writings:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003eEKREM ERK:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003e “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .3pt;\"\u003eWhat is good architecture? I cannot define it to you. Here, I only want to talk about the issues I valued or was late in valuing in my architectural journey, and my design actions. In doing so, I do not want to give an ideological meaning to architecture. Human existence develops in connection with individual freedom. One creates one’s own values in a certain environment. The existence of design should also emerge with a certain technique and method. That is, it should be the result of a mental activity. The melting pot where our emotions and thoughts meet expresses culture. Here, there is a balance between our emotions and thoughts. For the designer to pursue a dream by utilizing his emotions is a creative phenomenon. It is preconceived; it is authoritarian. However, the earth and the social environment should not be left to the irresponsibility of someone being creative for others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt;\"\u003eArchitecture, on the other hand, is the realization of an ideal program, spatial fiction, innovative techniques, and poetic details within an analytical context. Design should be an invention achieved at the end of such a process. This result is original and unique. Every design must have a scenario. The fairy tale imagined by the architect is a whole that brings together all our knowledge, education, technical, and sociological accumulations…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eUTE NEUGEBAUER: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003e“In all his designs, Ekrem Erk tries to find a common path by navigating between functionality, design, and the client’s own history. A timeless architectural approach that always embodies architectural values, independent of fashion trends, and the desire to offer added value to the client... Erk approaches every design, and thus every client, with the same utmost attention, persistence, and joy of creation, regardless of its dimensions, architectural presence, and ostentation. With a love for detail and unobtrusive perfectionism...”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt;\"\u003eMEHMET KONURALP:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .25pt;\"\u003e “Among his designs, small house projects have been my favorite works. The houses he built were meaningful projects for me. In particular, his interpretation of stone houses held a very important place in his work... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .3pt;\"\u003eEkrem Erk has taken a leading position in Turkish architecture with the projects he has carried out for over 35 years...”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eEBRU KAYA:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e“His first encounter with the profession of architecture came through his mentor, Prof. Dr. Bülent Özer. His mentor would now be his guide. The rebellion in his soul had found a path with Bülent Özer’s contribution. This path led him to Graz University of Technology in the early 70s. Those were the times when a movement or architectural search called “Grazer Schule” (Graz School) became distinct. The architects involved in this search were close friends and mostly shared the same drawing studio... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .3pt;\"\u003eDuring the work processes I spent with him, I always witnessed that innovation and distinctiveness were not sought in form and space. Distinctiveness was hidden in the concept and the scenario of the building design. The design was already a result of that story. The first stage of our work was to transform a strong story into a perfect scenario with sociological criteria. This concept is now structured through the process of imitating examples in nature. Just as the creation concepts of ducks and dolphins differ; neither a dolphin resembles a duck, nor a duck resembles a dolphin or a seagull. Erk’s design process is like the creation process of living things. Just as whether these creatures are aesthetic or not is not judged, airplane, helicopter, and building design cannot be questioned with aesthetic criteria. The design of a building for which a scenario has been prepared consists of a skeleton and skin. All of this is now an engineering process; space is secondary; it is the remaining place under the cover or inside the skin and is very often anonymous. For Erk, architecture is not the art of creating space; it is a sociologically based fiction and the magic of engineering. He is happy that both fiction and engineering are open to innovations... I strongly advise my young architect colleagues and architecture students, in particular, to engage in a professional conversation with him.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003e-------------------------------------\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003eThe book titled \u003ci\u003eEkrem Erk Mimarlığı \/ The Architecture of Ekrem Erk\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been based in Istanbul and Vienna since the 1970s, through his projects, was published in Turkish and English by YEM Yayın.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003eIf we read Ekrem Erk's perspective on architecture from both his own and his colleagues' pens:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINTR\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEKREM ERK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e: “One difficult question is “What is fine architecture?” It is very difficult to give a precise answer to this question. My purpose in this book is to inform the reader about my architectural journey; my ideas and my concepts of importance, also concepts that I have been late in giving a response to, and to describe my acts of design. In doing so, I refrain from giving an ideological meaning to architecture. The existence of humanity develops in correlation with the level of his existence of freedom. All humans create their set of values in a certain environment. The design stage must be a product of technology and method, it must also be the result of just rational thinking. The synthesis where our feelings and decisions meet represents our culture. There must be a certain balance between our feelings and decisions. On one hand, the designer using his feelings, creating a vision and his dream is the describer of creativity. He is preguided and authoritative. On the other hand, the world and social community must not be left in the hands of an authority demonstrating his creativity on behalf of others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArchitecture can be described as defining the “room” by the usage of innovative techniques and poetic details with the help of an analytical mind. The design must be real and the end result of such a process. This result is unique. Each design must have a scenario. The story told by the architect is a resume and result of his knowledge, education, background and usage of technology with a sociological point of view...” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINEN\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eUTE NEUGEBAUER: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .35pt;\"\u003e“In all his designs, Ekrem Erk tries to find a common path by navigating between functionality, design and the customer’s own history. A timeless architectural approach that always carries architectural values, independent of fashion trends, and the desire to offer added values to the customer... Regardless of its size, architectural presence and ostentation, it treats every design, and thus every client, with the same utmost attention, persistence and joy of creation. With love of detail and unobtrusive perfectionism...”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINEN\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .25pt;\"\u003eMEHMET KONURALP:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .25pt;\"\u003e “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAs a result, he produced very positive projects and brought them to the present day. In almost all of his projects, there was a common idea that was previously structured. This conceptual view has always been the main basis for all his projects… Ekrem Erk has taken a leading place in Turkish architecture with the projects he has done for more than 35 years…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"METINEN\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;\"\u003eEBRU KAYA:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“His first encounter with the profession of architecture was thru his teacher Prof.Dr. Bülent Özer. Bülent Özer has always been a mentor in his life and has been the person who discovered the tempests in his soul and has quided him for finding an outcome. A second start in his career was with his new start at Graz Technical University at the beginning of 70s. Those years were the period when the search for a movement of architecture called ‘Grazer Schule’ (Graz School) became evident. The architects involved in this movement are close friends and most of them shared the same drawing room… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eDuring the working process I spent with him, I witnessed that innovation and difference are not always sought in form and space. Difference; It was hidden in the scenario of the concept and building design. The design was already a result of that story. The first stage of our work was to transform a strong story into a perfect scenario with sociological criteria.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis concept is now structured through the process of imitating examples in nature. Just as the creation concepts of ducks and dolphins differ, neither a dolphin resembles a duck nor a duck resembles a dolphin or a seagull. Erk’s design process is like the creation process of living things. Just as it is not possible to judge whether these creatures are aesthetic or not, the design of aircraft, helicopters and buildings cannot be questioned with aesthetic criteria. The design of a building with a scenario prepared consists of skeleton and skin. All this is now an engineering process, space is secondary. It is the leftover place under the covers or inside the skin and is often anonymous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: gray; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128; letter-spacing: .1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFor Erk, architecture is not the art of creating space, it is a sociologically based fiction combined with the magic of engineering. He is happy that both the design and the engineering are innovative… I highly recommend my young architect colleagues and architecture students to attend a professional conversation with him.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PlainTable31\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"YEM Yayın","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48370206834931,"sku":"9786257008884","price":1260.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/files\/EKREMERK_KAPAK.jpg?v=1729172695","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/ekrem-erk-mimarligi-the-architecture-of-ekrem-erk","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}