Turkish Pavilion at 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture

Murat Tabanlioglu interview at BauNetz. The İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (İKSV) has announced Turkey’s first-ever participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale: “Places of Memory.” Comprised of the work of five contemporary Turkish artists, and curated by architect Murat Tabanlıoğlu, the pavilion will aim to illustrate how a variety of 20th century architectural styles eventually […]

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Deluxe: Istanbul Home

Meet one of Turkey’s most successful furniture designers, Seyhan Özdemir, who is co-founder of the internationally renowned “Autoban” design studio in Istanbul. Her own home is in the posh district of Beyoglu and she shows us around the former student hostel. by DW (English)

Byzantine Architecture

Constantinople today is still a world metropolis with almost 20 million inhabitants, in the middle ages the city was three times larger than Beijing, and 80 times larger than London and Paris, those two cities only having 10.000 inhabitants at that time by Romanos Agiopoleos Istanbul, a popular vulgar Turkish colloquial word to describe the […]

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Discover the Cultural Treasures of Turkey

Trailer by Suha Arin Documentaries for villages of Turkey by Suha Arin Documentaries

Prishtina Architecture Week 2013, lecture by Murat Tabanlioglu

Lecture by Murat Tabanlioglu, Tabanlioglu Architects, Istanbul (in English) by Kosovo Architecture Foundation After graduating from IEL, he studied architecture at Vienna Technical University. After graduating in 1992 he returned to Istanbul. He founded Tabanlioglu Architects in cooperation with Dr. Hayati Tabanlioglu in Istanbul in 1990. Besides his atelier program at Bilgi University, he lectures […]

Istanbul in the New Millennium

This documentary film tells the story of Istanbul’s struggle to come to terms with accelerated population growth and car-centric policies that have dominated its development in the last five decades — issues that are challenging megacities around the world. Istanbul, where once only a select few people were granted the special privilege to ride horses […]

Hebil 157 Houses by Aytac Architects

Hebil 157 is a project designed by Aytac Architects “www.aytacarchitects.com”, an Istanbul-based architecture studio. Hebil 157 is a complex of five villas, located nearby Hebil Bay in Turkey. The architecture of these five villas reminds of the crystallized lava flows by Windu Keren