{"product_id":"istanbul-1600-yillik-bir-muzedir","title":"Istanbul Is a 1600-Year-Old Museum - 4th Edition","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProf. Doğan Kuban, one of Turkey's most distinguished and world-renowned architectural historians, also known as the \"Teacher of Teachers,\" has released his book titled \"Istanbul: A 1600-Year-Old Museum\" through YEM Yayın.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProf. Doğan Kuban examines Istanbul from the perspective of a true Istanbulite, who has been a historian and writer of the city since 1953, focusing on critical observations rather than mere descriptions. He draws attention to the importance for architects, planners, and conscious intellectuals not only to love the city they live in but also to question it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoğan Kuban addresses the development and change Istanbul has undergone from its Roman-Byzantine identity to the present day, from a very broad perspective, through its structures, squares, architects, dominant cultures, and their approaches, virtually presenting a complete biography of the ancient city. He offers a detailed assessment, covering everything from the city's cultural identity to its planning, from its archaeology to its transportation, from its Westernization efforts to its fight against illegality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"metinnormal165x240\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;\"\u003eThrough his book, which articulates both the proud heritage of the past, gradually vanishing amidst the chaos of the new city, and the unsettling darkness of the future, K\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt;\"\u003euban invites readers to love history and approach the future with a critical perspective, addressing those who wish to \"truly understand\" Istanbul:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I must confess that it is now very difficult to find beauty in Istanbul without the legacy of its topography and history. However, Istanbul still has natural spaces that we have not been able to destroy. Spaces formed by the sea and hills, where the shores draw one's gaze into the distance. As you travel between Üsküdar and Beşiktaş and Eminönü, as you cross from Bebek to Kandilli, as you come from Kadıköy to the Bridge, as you look at the Bosphorus from Sarayburnu, as you cross the bridges, as you walk along the coastal roads, as you sail from the Bosphorus to the Black Sea or enter the Bosphorus from the Black Sea, as you look at Istanbul from Marmara or Salacak, there are beauties you cannot tire of looking at, no matter what cultural background you come from. Especially on a spring morning, untouched by the haze, when the sun begins to warm you, on one of Istanbul's coasts, in one of its cafes, in a light mist, when you perceive it like a painting by Sisley, you can forget all the evils people have done. With a slight sense of fate's oppression, perhaps you can even forgive them. In moments of pure perception, unburdened by thought, you might even begin to think that there is no city more beautiful than Istanbul, and that you are lucky to live in this world here...”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003eWHO IS PROF. DOĞAN KUBAN?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoğan Kuban, whom we lost in September 2021, was born in Paris in 1926. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, in 1949. He became an assistant in the Department of Architectural History at the same university. Kuban, whose thesis was on Turkish Baroque Architecture, studied Renaissance Architecture in Italy in 1954-55 and became an associate professor with his work titled \"Formation of Interior Space in Ottoman Architecture and a Comparison with the Renaissance.\" In 1962-63, he was a visiting faculty member in the Islamic Art department at the University of Michigan, USA, with a Fulbright scholarship. In 1963-64, as a Harvard Fellow, he worked on Anatolian Byzantine Architecture at the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center in Washington. In 1965, he became a professor with his book \"Sources and Problems of Anatolian Turkish Architecture.\" From 1967 onwards, Kuban taught Islamic Art and Architecture at Michigan and Minnesota universities, and from 1980-81, he taught Islamic Architectural History as a visiting Aga Khan professor at MIT. Between 1965 and 1975, he worked as a co-director with Prof. L. Striker in the excavation and restoration of the Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul, sponsored by Harvard University. He consulted on the restorations of Kalenderhane, Tahtakale Hamam, Yesevi Mausoleum in Kazakhstan, and Sultan Sanjar Mausoleum in Merv, Turkmenistan. He prepared historical environment protection reports and projects for the cities of Istanbul, Izmir, Gaziantep, Iznik, Kastamonu, Sivas, and Erzurum. In 1975, he founded and headed the Institute of Architectural History and Restoration. He served as the head of the Architectural History and Restoration departments (1958-93) and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture (1974-77) at ITU. Between 1978 and 1983, he worked on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture steering committee. From 1968 to 1983, he was a member of the Supreme Council of Immovable Cultural and Natural Assets and Monuments (Vice Chairman from 1981-83). Kuban, who retired in 1993, received Service Awards from the Ministry of Culture, the Chamber of Architects, and TÜBİTAK. Doğan Kuban, who received the 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Award in \"Architecture,\" was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Institute of Architects in 1994. His book \"Sinan’ın Sanatı ve Selimiye\" (1997) \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereceived the Aydın Doğan Award, and the English version of his book \"Osmanlı Mimarisi\" (2007), which won the Memet Fuat Publishing Award for YEM Yayın, \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas published by ACC Publishing Group in 2010 under the title \"Ottoman Architecture.\" Kuban's books published by YEM Yayın include \"Osmanlı Mimarisi,\" \"Mimarlık Kavramları,\" \"Cennetin Kapıları \/ Gates of Paradise,\" \"Kaybolan Kent Hayalleri Osmanlı Sarayları,\" \"Vanished Urban Places Ottoman’s Palaces,\" \"Osmanlı’nın İstanbul’u,\" \"Ottoman’s \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIstanbul,\" and \"İstanbul 1600 Yıllık Bir Müzedir.\" Kuban, who also served as an advisor to İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Piriştina for a period, was an honorary member of TÜBA.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YEM Yayın","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48370207621363,"sku":"9786257008204","price":1120.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/9786257008204.jpg?v=1616018055","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/istanbul-1600-yillik-bir-muzedir","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}