I grow up in Famagusta, on the second floor of an apartment blog looking to ghost town Varosha. I listed to golden age of this abandoned place from my father who spent his youth in the region during mid 60’s until the fragmentation of the island in 1974. Our neighbours were ghosts living on the…
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First Cittaslow of Cyprus: Yeniboğaziçi
One and half year ago with the encouragement of Chambers of Architects, Yeniboğaziçi Municipality has started a movement to join international cittaslow network. The municipality soon established a volunteer team and applied to our department for consultancy for this process. The first meeting of all the actors taking part for the movement (Me on…
Architectural Dilemma and My Murmurs
Every culture gave names to the objects during the centuries to supply the communication & sharing in itself. The words that are serviceable to define the objects bring together some concepts that constitute symbolic meaning and communication during the history, created their own complex system in every culture by changing continuously with perceptions & interpretations….
Do we really belong to our places for a lifetime?
Speed of life is fast, -perhaps too fast! We are experiencing it within all aspects. We are moving. And our places are moving with us too. Places are not stable entities any more… Even speed of life is fast and everything is moving, ‘Belongingness’ still stays Abraham Maslow’s list of hierarchy of needs. As Malsow…
When Philosophy Takes Form of Art
‘Light and Insects’ Sculpture Exhibition Artist: Bâki Boğaç Bâki Boğaç, well known Turkish Cypriot sculpture opened his VI.th solo exhibition named “Light and Insects” about a year ago in his atelier Pygmalion. There might be a year passed over this exhibition, yet its reflections are keep on echoing in Cyprus. This exhibition was a result of…
Woman Touch To The Stone: An Original Exhibition Which Has Never Seen Before
‘Women of Lace- Giving Birth’ An Exhibition by Turkish Cypriot Artist: Sezin Boğaç On 7th of May 2010, Turkish Cypriot artist Sezin Boğaç opened her first solo-exhibition named “Women of Lace-Giving Birth” at İsmet Vehit Güney Art Center in Nicosia/ Cyprus. In order to tell the secret dreams, hopes and wishes of many women which…
Visiting A Hero of Architecture
“Do not try to be a specialist- just be a person.” Yona Friedman An Architect Between the Utopia and the Reality: Yona Friedman On 13th of November 2010, we made a visit with students of the Academy of Art, Design and Architecture in Prague to Yona Friedman’s studio in Paris. Yona Friedman was excited for…
Inside the Brutal City
I feel like my body is covered with silver while night is falling into my heart. If you are on the surface and your love is at the bottom; that means you exaggerate yourself, and you are close to losing your love. This time it will be different. You are the only unusual thing in…
City Crashes!
AN AWAKENED CITY! The spot where your body starts and ends is the spot where this city starts and ends…. The shadow was growing… the energy was coming out from the crashes… There were car crashes… airplane crashes… city crashes! The blood and steel were unifying as they had never come together in this way…
Towards a new city
FIRST SKETCHES I was thinking about a new place for the characters of the Crash movie… These people were unsettled, displaced, incompatible people who lives outside of the circle! My first sketch was as follows: Somehow I thought that this new city must be attached to the existing one. However there was only a very…
A film analysis: Step by step to the ‘Brutal City’
THE ‘CRASH’ MOVIE I cannot remember how many times I have watched this film! I make many sketches every time I watch it, trying to analyze even the smallest signs within it. These efforts have later helped me develop my project. The VideoDrome of David Cronenberg This was another crazy movie by Cronenberg, which shares…
Brutal City- The Beginning
THE MOST DANGEROUS ORGANISM OF THE NEW-RELIGION -BRUTAL CITY- Book: ‘Crash’ written by James Ballard Film: ‘Crash’ by my all time favorite director David Cronenberg. In the post-technology age, the understanding has changed, such as a street man cannot comprehend anything that does not have a mediatic twin. In my view, simulation represents its originality,…
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