Re-thinking architect Kemalettin

Abstract

In the cultural history of Turkey, Kemalettin Bey (1870–1927)’s name and image are inseparable from the issue of national identity, its political construction and its visual representations. A well established academic discourse credits architects Kemalettin and Vedat Tek (1873–1942) for replacing, after the Young Turks constitutional revolution of 1908, the late-Ottoman, eclectic and cosmopolitan architectural culture with a new historicist, national and “modern” idiom. From a hybrid, multic..