W01 – Sep 07 | Introduction
W02 – Sep 14 | “Between the East and the West”: The Bridge Metaphor
W03 – Sep 21 | “Orienting” Istanbul: Whose hüzün?
Topic I. Theoretical and Historiographic Issues
W04 – Sep 28 | Architectural Urban History: Debates and State of Scholarship
W05 – Oct 5 | Alternative Modernities
Topic II. Architecture and Urban Life in the late Ottoman Era
W06 – Oct 12 | The Question of ‘Westernization’ and Periodization
W07 – Oct 19 | Imperial Modernization and Self-Representation
Topic III. Architectures of Nation Building
W08 – Oct 26 | The Search for a National Architecture
W09 – Nov 02 | Istanbul versus Ankara, and Henri Prost’s Plan
Topic IV. Post-War Modernism and Housing
W10 – Nov 9 | “Americanization” of Architectural Culture
W11 – Nov 16 | Migration, Urbanization, and Housing
Topic V. Architectures of Globalization
W12 – Nov 23 | Spaces of Neoliberalism & the Staging of Istanbul as a European Capital of Culture
W13 – Nov 30 | Heritage, Gentrification, and Culture-Led Urban Revitalization
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W01 | Introduction
Sep 07
W02 | “Between the East and the West”: The Bridge Metaphor
Sep 14
Göktürk, Deniz, Levent Soysal, and Ipek Türeli. “Introduction.” In Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, 1-22. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Simmel, George. “Bridge and Door.” In Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, edited by Neil Leach, 66-69. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories of a City. Faber and Faber, 2005. [begin reading]
W03 | “Orienting” Istanbul: Whose hüzün?
Sep 21
Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories of a City. Faber and Faber, 2005. [Read as much as you can; concentrate especially on the chapters: “Black and White” and "Hüzün.", pp. 31-41; 81-96.]
Ișın, Engin F. “The Soul of a City: Hüzün, Keyif, Longing.” In Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, 35-47. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Topic I. Theoretical and Historiographic Issues
W04 | Architectural Urban History: Debates and State of Scholarship
Sep 28
Stieber, Nancy. “Microhistory of the Modern City: Urban Space, Its Use and Representation.” JSAH 58, no. 3 (Sep. 1999): 382-91.
Çelik, Zeynep. “New Approaches to the “Non-Western” City.” JSAH 58, no. 3 (Sep. 1999): 374-81.
W05 | Alternative Modernities
Oct 5
Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar. “On Alternative Modernities.” In Alternative Modernities, edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, 1-23. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
Roy, Ananya. “The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory.” Regional Studies 43, no. 6 (2008): 819 – 30.
Huyssen, Andreas. Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age, 1-15. Duke University Press, 2008.
Topic II. Architecture and Urban Life in the late Ottoman Era
W06 | The Question of ‘Westernization’ and Periodization
October 12 – Proposal (1 page) and annotated bibliography are due today.
Çelik, Zeynep. Chapters 1 and 2. The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, 3-48. University of California Press, 1993. [See the whole book, based on 1984 PhD diss]
Hamadeh, Shirine. “Ottoman Expressions of Early Modernity and The ‘Inevitable’ Question of Westernization.” JSAH 63, no. 1 (2004): 32-51. [Also see, The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (2008) based on 1998 PhD diss]
W07 | Imperial Modernization and Self-Representation
Oct 19
Necipoǧlu, Gülru. “Creation of a National Genius: Sinan and the Historiography of ‘Classical’ Ottoman Architecture.” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World 24, no. Leiden (2007): 141-83.
Bozdoğan, Sibel. “First Moderns: The Legacy of Ottoman Revivalism.” In Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic, 16-55. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Topic III. Architectures of Nation Building
W08 | The Search for a National Architecture
Oct 26
Bozdoğan, Sibel. “Architecture of Revolution.” Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic, 56-105. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
W09 | Istanbul versus Ankara, and Henri Prost’s Planning
Nov 02
Gül, Murat. “The Neglected City, 1923-1933.” The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernization of a City, Library of Modern Middle East Studies, 72-91. London; New York: Tauris Academic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Bilsel, Cana. “Henri Prost’s Planning Works in Istanbul (1936-1951): Transforming the Structure of a City through Master Plans and Urban Operations,” and “Espaces Libres: Parks, Promenades, Public Squares,” In From the Capital of the Empire to the Modern City of the Republic: Henri Prost’s Istanbul Plans (1936-1951) edited by Pierre Pinon and Cana Bilsel, 101-66 and 349-80. Istanbul: Istanbul Research Institute, 2010.
Topic IV. Post-War Modernism and Housing
W10 | “Americanization” of Architectural Culture
Nov 9
Bozdoğan, Sibel. “Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s.” In Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi, 116-38. Seattle: University, 2008.
Wharton, Annabel Jane. “Chapter 1, Gaze to the East: Istanbul.” Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, 13-38. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
W11 | Migration, Urbanization, and Housing
Nov 16
Keyder, Çağlar. “The Housing Market from Informal to Global.” In Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local, edited by Çaglar Keyder, 143-59. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
Türeli, Ipek. “Istanbul through Migrants’ Eyes.” In Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, 144-64. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Topic V. Architectures of Globalization
W12 | Spaces of Neoliberalism & the Staging of Istanbul as a European Capital of Culture
Nov 23, paper drafts due today.
Candan, Ayfer Bartu, and Biray Kolluoğlu. “Emerging Spaces of Neoliberalism: A Gated Town and a Public Housing Project in Istanbul.” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 39 (2008): 5-46.
Ünsal, Özlem, and Tuna Kuyucu. “Challenging the Neoliberal Urban Regime: Regeneration and Resistance in Bașıbüyük and Tarlabașı.” In Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, 51-70. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Brink-Danan, Marcy. “Counting Jews as European: Jews and the Politics of Presence in Istanbul.” In Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, 279-95. New York: Routledge, 2010.
W13 | Heritage Debates, Gentrification, and Culture-Led Urban Revitalization
Nov 30 – Thanksgiving break.
Mills, Amy. “Boundaries of the Nation in the Space of the Urban: Landscape and Social Memory in Istanbul.” Cultural Geographies 13, no. 367 (2006): 367-94.
Türeli, Ipek. “Modelling Citizenship in Turkey’s Miniature Park.” In Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and Ipek Türeli, 105-25. New York: Routledge, 2010.
W14, Dec 7 – Discussion of drafts, review, and evaluations.
W15, Dec 14 – Final papers due via e-mail.
