{"id":2317,"date":"2020-12-06T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:15:17","slug":"consistency-and-discord-a-recent-history-of-ulus-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Consistency and Discord: A Recent History of Ulus Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-461897f4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poster_acar-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2319\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7998046875;object-fit:contain\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poster_acar-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poster_acar-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poster_acar-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poster_acar-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poster_acar.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ulus Square is a very special place which has been shaped through the history with many interventions. Throughout its life during the Rebublic, the square became an entity that is formed with the stratification of Turkey\u2019s changing architectural discourses. With the layers that have been added through Turkey\u2019s journey of modernism, the square was defined by a number of important late modernist buildings. The conservation of modernist architecture is a challenge for communities of architecture, as communicating the values of modernist heritage is much more difficult as compared to other \u201chistorical\u201d beings that the general public can appreciate with ease. This presentation will tell the story of how the communities of architecture in Ankara cooperated to convince the municipality to stop the demolishment decision for the 100th Year Commerce Center, through a narration of continuity and discontinuity of planning decisions and political positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yi\u011fit Acar received his Ph.D. in Architecture from Middle East Technical University in 2017and has been teaching in Bilkent since then. His research interests include theory of architecture and urbanism, urban design, mapping, data mining and visualization. His current research focuses on disciplinary history of urban design and typo-morphological analysis of Turkish cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-sticky is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-container-1 is-position-sticky\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 27 November 2020<br><strong>Time:<\/strong> 16:00<br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<div style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\" class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?cat=43\" rel=\"tag\">2020<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?cat=7\" rel=\"tag\">Lectures<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?cat=6\" rel=\"tag\">News &amp; Events<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulus Square is a very special place which has been shaped through the history with many interventions. Throughout its life during the Rebublic, the square became an entity that is formed with the stratification of Turkey\u2019s changing architectural discourses. With the layers that have been added through Turkey\u2019s journey of modernism, the square was defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-43","category-lectures","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}