{"product_id":"ideal-kent-arayisinda-mimari-utopyalar","title":"Architectural Utopias in Search of the Ideal City","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYEM Yayın has published the 2nd edition of Prof. Dr. Ece Ceylan Baba's book, Architectural Utopias in Search of the Ideal City, which reveals humanity's endeavor to create an ideal living space from antiquity to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEverything begins with a strong desire to establish an ideal structure in place of the existing order... Initially a fictional construct, utopia is the expression of this desire. Since an abstract design can only come to life in a concrete space, it is invariably dependent on a place\/space. For this reason, the utopian designs a space vastly different from the one they currently inhabit. The resulting utopian space often corresponds to a city. It is within the framework of planning this city that utopia, a form of life and social engineering, is designed; it is progressive, egalitarian, promises hope, claims to be a perfect design, and proposes a rational order, yet it also possesses an authoritarian and totalitarian demeanor, an absolutist understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUtopias aim to construct an ideal universe where all conflicts in society are ended with the help of modern technology; to create an environment where peace, prosperity, and virtue will be eternal and universal. But do all these \"well-intentioned and sublime\" designs truly lead to absolutely ideal living spaces?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn seeking the answer to this question, Ece Ceylan Baba shares striking examples of the idea of designing an ideal city, spanning from antiquity to the Renaissance, from the Enlightenment to Modernism, and from Postmodernism to the present day. Starting with Atlantis, the world's oldest and most famous known utopian city\/country; she examines numerous extraordinary proposals such as Moore's Utopia, the creative destruction realized in Paris by Haussmann, Howard's garden cities, Corbusier's Contemporary and Radiant City projects, and Archigram's plug-and-play city designs. In Utopias in Search of the Ideal City, she presents data and approaches regarding this ongoing search for the ideal city for the reader's consideration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEce Ceylan Baba, in her book which begins by pointing out that \"utopia evades a clear definition,\" takes the reader on an architectural journey through imagined utopian living spaces, delving into the depths of history. Baba reveals that attempts to create the ideal city, which began with utopia, have continued over time with quests such as ecotopia, heterotopia, and hyper-buildings, and she expresses how these ongoing efforts tend to turn into dystopias in the end:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“… Today, cities are excessively cosmopolitan and heterogeneous, composed of different classes, social strata, beliefs, and ethnic origins, unlike any other time in history. Especially in the postmodern era, where identity politics have risen more than ever, designing a city with a purely modernist attitude, with the functionally apparent design of a single abstract mind on paper, now appears to produce nothing more than a dystopia that alienates all city dwellers. Cities are now like the 'invisible hand' in economics, entirely a fluid organism that evolves and is in constant formation with the contributions of the municipality and central government, within the framework of the common habits, economic capabilities, expectations from life and the city, and political views of all actors living in the city. The cities of Modernism, designed in a single stroke and intended to resist time eternally, as complete, finished, and moreover, bossy towards their inhabitants, have transformed into fluid cities with an expanding, evolving, transforming structure in constant formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe needs of contemporary cities have surpassed an abstract universal mind, and as they are influenced by many micro-identities, ideologies, changing forms of goods and service production, and differentiating communication and transportation methods, they have evolved into a structure that both transforms and re-influences society. There has been a retreat from a single mind designing a city from scratch to designing micro-areas, buildings, and formations that are micro-parts of the city. The indexing of cities to the common sense and changing common needs of urban dwellers is now replacing utopias that seek absolute order with floating existences that can manage chaos. In persistent utopias, history shows us that the outcome is always the same: Dystopia!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWHO IS PROF. DR. ECE CEYLAN BABA?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe completed her undergraduate education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Architecture, her master's degree at Yeditepe University, Department of Architecture, and her doctoral program at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Architectural Design Problems, earning her doctorate degree. Ece Ceylan Baba became an associate professor in 2016 and a professor in 2021, and she is a faculty member at Yeditepe University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture. She has served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at the same university since May 2017 and as the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture since July 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcademically, she works on architectural utopias and dystopias, high-rise development, globalization, user participation, environmental and urban psychology, housing typologies, and the concept of loft; she continues her studies, research, and publications in these areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe author has three books: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArchitectural Utopias in Search of the Ideal City\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesign Democracy and Istanbul\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLoft: Loft Architecture in the Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism and its Reflections in Istanbul\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn addition to her academic work, Ece Ceylan Baba continues her professional career as a founding partner of Baba Mimarlık and is a Board Member of the NGOs İMSAD and TUCSA. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YEM Yayın","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48370207391987,"sku":"9786257008020","price":630.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/Ideal_Kent_Arayisi_Mimari_Utopya_2BASKI_KAPAK.jpg?v=1668013365","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/ideal-kent-arayisinda-mimari-utopyalar","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}