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Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
(Intellect Books, 2020) Uğurlu, A. Hilal; 01. MEF University
An article published on May 29, 1852, in the Journal de Constantinople reported a new environmental planning project for Istanbul’s Tophane district. A range of shops would be demolished so that the main street could be widened and transformed into a square that ended at the flamboyant main door of the Nusretiye Mosque (1823–26).Tophane Fountain and certain other neighboring fountains would be renovated, and trees would be planted between the boundaries of the Artillery Barracks and the widened mainstreet, to make the Tophane district ‘the most beautiful, pleasant and healthiest promenade of the city. This reported endeavor was only a small aspect of a larger project that began in the 1840s, after the proclamation of the Gülhane Rescript (November 3, 1839), and it was considered a physical extension of Ottoman modernization. Throughout the long nineteenth century, while the urban fabric of the capital was regularized and adjusted to the expectations and needs of the ongoing modernization efforts, novel building types, such as barracks,schools, and railway stations, and new social spaces, such as parks, theaters, and promenades, emerged. Many existing building types and thus the daily routines shaped by them were also affected.
“Introduction", in The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics
(Intellect Books, 2020) Uğurlu, A. Hilal; Yalman, Suzan; 01. MEF University
The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics Explores the relationship between two important entities in the Islamic context: the Friday mosque and the city. Earlier scholarship has examined these concepts separately and, to some degree, in relation to each other. This volume seeks to understand the relationship between them. Inorder to begin this discussion, defining the terminology is necessary. The English term mosque’ derives from the Arabic Masjid, a term designating a place of prostration, whereas the term jami‘,which is translated variously as Friday mosque, great mosque or congregational mosque, originates from the Arabic term jama‘, meaning to gather. The religious obligation for Muslims to congregate on Fridays eventually created an Islamic social code. Similarly, the migration from Mecca to Medina was instrumental in transforming a society based on tribal kinship into a community (umma). The Prophet himself played a vital role in establishing the first congregational space in Medina. Whatever the original terminology that defined it,this space is usually accepted as the prototype of the ‘mosque’ by architectural historians. The distinctions in terminology are important because, according to Islamic legal tradition,the presence of a Friday mosque was an important parameter in defining a city (madina).
Free(?) Space at the 2018 Venice Biennale
(Intellect Books, 2019) Yücel, Şebnem; Yücel, Şebnem; 03.01. Department of Architecture; 03. Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture; 01. MEF University
In his article ‘Out of Site/In Plain View: On the Origins and Actuality of the Architecture Exhibition’, architectural historian and curator Barry Bergdoll starts by asking the obvious question: ‘What does it mean to exhibit architecture? Isn’t architecture, once it is built, always already on display?’1 Despite always being on display, however, architecture escapes being exhibited. Because we cannot exhibit architecture in the way an artist can exhibit a painting or a sculpture.

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