{"product_id":"tanik-cagdas-turkiye-mimarligi-1995-2025","title":"WITNESS - Contemporary Turkish Architecture (1995-2025) Through the Eyes of an Architect and the Lens of a Photographer","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.5pt; line-height: 120%; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe book titled \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eWITNESS - Contemporary Turkish Architecture from the Architect's Eye and Photographer's Lens (1995-2025)\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e by Architect-Photographer Gürkan Akay, which serves as a valuable architectural archive documenting the last 30 years of building production in Turkey and transferring it to architectural literature, has been published by YEM Yayın.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.5pt; line-height: 120%; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eGürkan Akay is an architect and photographer who, since starting his architecture education at ITU, has observed the built environment through an architect's eye while also documenting it with his lens. In this book, published with the valuable contributions of Marwood, Akay shares with the architectural community a selection from over 2,500 structures he has photographed \"witnessing on-site\" over the last 30 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.5pt; line-height: 120%; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe photographs of the buildings featured in the book, which begins with forewords by Deniz Aslan, Murat Germen, and Nevzat Sayın, are accompanied by project descriptions and sketches from their designers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eGürkan Akay, who says, \"I was known as 'photographer' by my fellow architects, and 'architect' by my photography circles; but I always saw myself first as an architect, then as an architectural photographer,\" states:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\"This dual perspective allowed me to 'read' every building I documented, first as someone who understood its language. Thanks to this profession, I had the chance to experience spaces that were sometimes very unusual, sometimes very intimate, and sometimes very 'inaccessible,' and to be a living witness to what was happening in the country's architecture. A common language established through the ideas of hundreds of architects across thousands of projects, the reality of the building, and my perspective... Every shot in this book is one of those unique moments when the architectural mind of the past quarter-century met my lens. The selection in this book, filtered from hundreds of thousands of frames, is no longer just my testimony, but a document aspiring to be the memory of us all...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eMarwood General Manager Mehmet Tamer Ünlü says, \"This work is much more than a photography book; it is a mirror held up to the recent architectural history of Turkey.\" He continues:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\"Gürkan Akay's perspective, stemming from his architectural education, and his aesthetic sensitivity in the art of photography, create not just a silent archive but a living memory of Turkey's architectural production over the last thirty years. It is an indescribable joy for us to be able to witness a distilled part of this vast archive, built through his years of effort, and to be a part of this work. Gürkan Akay also holds an important place in Marwood's transformation journey. When we were just starting out, his open and guiding assessments, looking at us from the outside, provided valuable contributions to us realizing who we are and what we could be. Seeing ourselves through the eyes of a professional added more strength to our journey than we had imagined. Our contribution to this book is a simple expression of our respect for his effort, his art, and the testimony he has accumulated over the years...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eDeniz Aslan:\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \"Gürkan made many attempts on his way to becoming a master, a photographer, and naturally an architectural photographer at ITU Faculty of Architecture; he made a solid investment, established a pleasant studio. I believe that the patterns he created between architecture and art were the most important motivation in his self-transformation.\"\u003cspan style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eMurat Germen:\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \"Gürkan, who is one of the few people who have kept a record of Turkish architectural practice for 25 years, meticulously created his opus, indicating more than just a professional practice action and content... Gürkan is one of the first people to consult when academic, archival information about recent Turkish architecture needs to be produced, and the corpus he possesses is not even in state archives. This alone is a very significant achievement.\"\u003cspan style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eNevzat Sayın:\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \"It's a good thing that he takes photos with strong understandability using dual concepts such as light-shadow, surface-texture, fullness-emptiness, mass-detail, from ground-air, what's in the building-what's in his mind, often sharp, legible, from unexpected angles, showing us aspects of well-known structures that we didn't know well and would never know without his photos.\"\u003cspan style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"P-arketipArketip\" style=\"margin-right: 8.5pt; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe cover design of the book, prepared for publication by Burçin Yılmaz under the consultancy of Selim Velioğlu, with Şenay Akay as photo editor and Resul Atabay for graphic design and application, was done by İlknur Alparslan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"mso-element: para-border-div; border: none; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-line-height-alt: 6.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eWHO IS GÜRKAN AKAY?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eBorn in Bursa in 1976. Due to his father's profession, he spent his childhood in Şanlıurfa Akçakale, Nevşehir, Denizli Buldan, and Balıkesir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\"\u003eHe graduated from Ankara Gazi Anatolian High School in 1994 and from the Department of Architecture at ITU Faculty of Architecture in 1998. Immediately after his architectural education, he began his photography education at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography, completing it in 2001 with a master's thesis titled \"Visual Pollution and Erosion of Public Awareness in Quality Today,\" prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sabit Kalfagil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eSince his student years, he has pursued both disciplines simultaneously. While participating in projects as an architect, he also began working as an architectural photographer under the umbrella of his company, \"Gürkan Akay Architectural Promotion.\" Since 1995, he has photographed over 2,500 projects for more than 400 architects-designers and firms, creating one of the most comprehensive visual memory archives in the Turkish architectural scene.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eGürkan Akay has served as a jury member in national competitions and given seminars at various universities and institutions. His work has been featured in many publications such as \u003ci\u003eVogue, Yapı, Arredamento Mimarlık, and Tasarım\u003c\/i\u003e. Gürkan Akay was listed among \"25 names shaping the memory of the country's architecture\" in the 25th-anniversary special 250th issue of \u003ci\u003eTasarım\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YEM Yayın","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48489424683251,"sku":"9786259393186","price":2660.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/files\/YEM_GURKAN_AKAY_TANIK_KAPAK.jpg?v=1770502773","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/tanik-cagdas-turkiye-mimarligi-1995-2025","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}