THE BALYANS Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive

FOREWORD

• Looking into the Balyan Architecture Archive / Arsen Yarman

• With Respect to the Balyan Family and Imperial Architects 
  
  HAYCAR - Solidarity Association of Architects and Engineers for the Revitalization and Research of Cultural Assets

• Remembering the Balyans / Kevork Özkaragöz

PROLOGUE

Chapter 1  BALYAN ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE

• Beyond Function: Balyan Architecture with Myths and Prejudices

• Balyan Archive: Pile of Memories and Journey of Classification

• Architect Balyans

Chapter 2  BALYAN FAMILY: PERSONAL HISTORIES

• Balyan Family and Its Origins

• Krikor Bal(i)yan (1764-1831) and the Birth of a Family Practice

• Senekerim Balyan (1768-1833)

• The Last Amira Architect Garabed Balyan (1800-1866) 

• Education of Garabed Balyan’s Children

• A Young Genius: Nigoğos Balyan (1826-1858) 

• Architect, Engineer and Versatile Tanzimat Elite Sarkis Balyan (1831-1899)

• Death of the Great Patron, Stroke of Fate and Final Period of Balyan Practice

• Sarkis Balyan as an Engineer-Mechanician and Inventor

• Art Patron and Intellectual Architect: Hagop Balyan (1837-1875)

• A Drawing Master and Imperial Draughtsman: Simon Balyan (1846-1894)

• Last Architect of the Balyan Practice: Levon Balyan (1855-1925)

Chapter 3  BALYAN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS

• Imperial Palaces and Organization of Large Scale Construction Sites: Silence of the Construction Sites

• A Pledge of Progress and a Visual Negotiation: Photography in the Representation of Sarkis Balyan’s Architecture

• Portrait of the Architect

Chapter 4  BALYAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE TANZİMAT ERA

• Beyond Time and Geography: Multiple Sources of Balyan Eclecticis

• Balyan Practice as a Pioneer of Neo-Gothic Elements in Tanzimat Architecture

• History as an Encyclopedic Source

• An Egalitarian Demand: Influences on Çırağan and Beylerbeyi Palaces

• New Methodologies in the Search of a National Style and Ottoman Renaissance

• From Imperial Architect to Imperial Palace Master Builder: The Position of Architect in the Architectural Organization of Tanzimat Period

Chapter 5  BALYAN ARCHIVE CATALOGUE

Ottoman Palace and Residential Architecture in the Tanzimat Era

• Imperial Palaces on the Banks of Bosphorus

• The Çırağan Palace of Sultan Mahmud II

• Dolmabahçe: The Absolute Model of Tanzimat Palaces

• The Design Model Integrating the Old Palace into the New Complex: Beylerbeyi

• Nigoğos Balyan’s Facade Proposal for the New Çırağan Palace and Horror Vacui

• Sarkis and Hagop Balyan’s Eastern, Polychrome Facade Proposals for the New Çırağan Palace

• The New Çırağan Palace

• Monumental Coastal Line from Çırağan to Fer’iye Palaces

• Sarkis Balyan’s Expansion Project for Yıldız Palace Büyük Mabeyn Kiosk

• The Balyans and Imperial Feasts in the Tanzimat Period

• A Project by Antoine Bourgeois in the Balyan Archive

• In the Pursuit of an Ideal Plan: Kiosk and Pavilion Designs

• Kabataş Esma Sultan Mansion

• An Exception of Balyan Architecture: Middle Class Housing Designs

Decoration for the Empire

• Decoration of the 19th Century Ottoman Palaces

• Perspective Drawings by “Serkis Bey” in the Nubar Library, Paris

• Parisian Furniture, Chandelier and Furniture Designs in the Balyan Archive

• A Conceptual Spolia: Re-use of Çırağan Palace’s Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Doors in Yıldız Şale Kiosk’s Dining Hall

New Spaces of the Ottoman Diplomacy

• Sarkis Balyan’s Reorganization for Chamber of Deputies

• Sarkis Balyan’s Bâb-ı Âli Building Plan Proposals After the 1878 Fire

Religious Buildings

• Tanzimat Period Mosques and Contributions of the Balyans

• Sarkis Balyan’s Four-Minaret Selâtin Mosque Design: Aziziye Mosque

• The Second Set of Mosque Drawings in the Balyan Archive

• Church Designs Between the Imperial Capital and the East

New Spaces of the Public Life

• Sarkis Balyan’s Display Plan for the Collection of Antique Weapons at Hagia Irene

• Education Buildings

• Sarkis Balyan’s Galatasaray Imperial High School Plan

• The Hospital Project in the Balyan Archıve

• Simon Balyan’s Design Proposal for Sarayburnu Entrepots

• A Public Building and Landscape Design Project

Military Buildings

• Military Barrack Designs as a Pioneer for the Idea of Architectural Order

• Maçka Armoury

Industrial Buildings

• Dadyan and Balyan Collaboration in the Early Period of the Ottoman Industrialization

• Imperial Fez Factory

• Dolmabahçe Gasworks

Rehabilitation of the Tanzimat City: The Balyans and Urban Design

ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

• About the Index of Balyan Buildings

• Index of Buildings and People