A Guide to Architect Kemaleddin's Buildings

The Architect Kemaleddin Buildings Guide, which includes the architect's completed and still preserved works, is a guide that opens the way for seeing and learning, and aims to provoke thought.

The guide includes structures in Istanbul, where the majority of his works are located, as well as Ankara, and Edirne, where only one of his works still stands. Due to the urban scale of Istanbul and the distribution of Kemaleddin's works, which created significant difficulties in route planning and map marking, large-scale maps enabling urban comprehension have been arranged, along with addresses/maps that allow each structure to be easily located.

Afife Batur, the editor of the guide, says the following about Architect Kemaleddin and the guide:
"The relationship between a city and an architect is magical. One is born from it, the other gives birth to it anew. Whether what is born is beautiful or ugly, the cycle remains constant.

When the city is Istanbul and the architect is Kemaleddin, the magic multiplies itself. This place has a soul. It not only inspires; it provokes, teaches, educates, and opens one to the world, to the past, and to the future. Of course, the work also changes it, either enriching and beautifying it or diminishing and spoiling it.

Knowing that Istanbul has been enriched and beautified by Kemaleddin, we propose a journey of discovery. We suggest the accompaniment of a guide that invites us to see Kemaleddin's architecture anew, not only in Istanbul but also including the other cities it carries, Ankara and Edirne. As we begin to read the genetic codes of both the cities and Kemaleddin's work, we will realize how the architect read this city with the accumulated knowledge he represented.

This is what the Architect Kemaleddin Buildings Guide aims for and promises.''