Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic

by Sibel Bozdoğan

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Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians

Winner of the M. Fuat Koprulu Book Prize in Turkish Studies sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

With the proclamation of the Turkish republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, Turkey's political and intellectual elites attempted to forge from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire a thoroughly modern, secular, European nation-state. Among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295981520
• ISBN13: 9780295981529
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher