Avcı, Deniz
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Article Citation - WoS: 3Transient Yet Settled: the Rooms for Tuberculosis Patients in Turkish Sanatoria(UNIV OVIEDO, 2023) Degirmencioğlu, Cansu; Avcı, DenizThis paper investigates the spatial dimensions of the dichotomy between the pedagogical and clinical purposes of sanatoria, based on the examples of patient rooms in twentieth-century Turkish sanatoria. The intangible layers of sanatoria are explored with a focus on the tuberculosis patients as the primary actors, tackling the literary work on Modern Movement sanatoria architecture as well as established literature on emotions, senses, and experiences in architecture, with primary sources on Turkish sanatoria (1920s-1970s). The concepts of permanence and transience in sanatoria are assessed through the experience of the users.The research findings unveiled, the rooms were designed as ready to be refreshed via hygiene practices anytime, while ensuring that the bodies of the patients stayed transient within their material environment. However, the design-related nuances between the physical transience of the medical body and the spiritual longevity for belonging (to a familiar place) reveals that despite their sterile appearances and clinical atmospheres, sanatoria were emotionally charged spaces that conveyed a sense of belonging for the patients.Historians thoroughly analyzed the Modern Movement's ideas of hygiene in everyday spaces and the twentieth-century sanatoria via analyses of global cases. What is relatively new is sanatoria spaces and venues incorporate many intangible layers, and healthcare spaces offer a rich history of emotions, atmospheres, and senses in architecture. The distinctive contribution of this paper is two-fold: it reveals that atmospheres, emotions, and senses alter the perception of the transient venues of architecture of convalescence and it advances research on Turkish sanatoria by offering a comprehensive medico-social analysis that highlights distinctive local cultural nuances.Article Framing Silence in Southeast Anatolia: Confined Spaces, Subdued Bodies of Women in Turkish Cinema(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Avci, Deniz; Dogu, Tuba; Cagatay, GokceThis paper looks at the representation of women's silence as a deliberate survival strategy in Turkish cinema with a focus on a socio-politically scarred region of Southeast Anatolia in 1960-1990. Drawing from feminist scholarship, architectural theory and film studies, the research explores how cinema portrays silence as women's negotiation against patriarchal oppression. Situating women in this cinematic geography, the analysis is through two complementary views. One is the patriarchal perspective, where the camera frames spaces and bodies in ways which render women silent and immobile. From this perspective, silence may confirm male authority over space and body. However, in the second perspective, i.e. women's lived experience, the same silence is re-assessed as an active form of collective endurance and self-protection. By limited public visibility, gesture and speech, women create networks to secure themselves, evade harassment and share resources. These perspectives, analyzed with recurring cinematic motifs such as ceremonies, customs and traditions, and daily life practices, reveal how spatial and bodily silences become survival tactics against oppression and subjugation. Hence timely, this study centers silence as an agency that transforms confined spaces and subdued bodies into embodiments of survival.Article Citation - Scopus: 4Transient Yet Settled: the Rooms for Tuberculosis Patients in Turkish Sanatoria(Universidad de Oviedo, 2023) Degirmencioglu, C.; Avci Hosanli, Deniz; Avci-Hosanli, DenizThis paper investigates the spatial dimensions of the dichotomy between the pedagogical and clinical purposes of sanatoria, based on the examples of patient rooms in twentieth-century Turkish sanatoria. The intangible layers of sanatoria are explored with a focus on the tuberculosis patients as the primary actors, tackling the literary work on Modern Movement sanatoria architecture as well as established literature on emotions, senses, and experiences in architecture, with primary sources on Turkish sanatoria (1920s-1970s). The concepts of permanence and transience in sanatoria are assessed through the experience of the users. The research findings unveiled, the rooms were designed as ready to be refreshed via hygiene practices anytime, while ensuring that the bodies of the patients stayed transient within their material environment. However, the design-related nuances between the physical transience of the medical body and the spiritual longevity for belonging (to a familiar place) reveals that despite their sterile appearances and clinical atmospheres, sanatoria were emotionally charged spaces that conveyed a sense of belonging for the patients. Historians thoroughly analyzed the Modern Movement's ideas of hygiene in everyday spaces and the twentieth-century sanatoria via analyses of global cases. What is relatively new is sanatoria spaces and venues incorporate many intangible layers, and healthcare spaces offer a rich history of emotions, atmospheres, and senses in architecture. The distinctive contribution of this paper is two-fold: it reveals that atmospheres, emotions, and senses alter the perception of the transient venues of architecture of convalescence and it advances research on Turkish sanatoria by offering a comprehensive medico-social analysis that highlights distinctive local cultural nuances. © 2023 Res Mobilis. All rights reserved.Article Learning From the Tuberculosis Crisis in Turkey: Spatiality and Modern Interiors in Yaşamak Yolu Journal (1929–1950)(Docomomo International, 2025) Avci, DenizYaamak Yolu [A Way of Living], the journal of the Istanbul Tuberculosis Association, played a pedagogical and propagandistic role in building a healthy nation after the establishment of the Turkish state. The journal is a valuable archive incorporating the spaces of tuberculosis combat during the 20th century, encompassing social, cultural, and political information. It reveals how tuberculosis was a crisis that influenced Turkey’s Modern Movement in architecture and modern interiors. The discourse on the contagious nature of tuberculosis and the healthy way of living in Yaşamak Yolu impacted ideas about modern interior design in different building typologies. After scanning the 1929-1972 Yaşamak Yolu issues from the Izmir National Library’s archives, this study categorized, analyzed, and evaluated the data at the intersection of tuberculosis and modern interiors, focusing on national and international sanatoria, housing, alternative interiors, and everyday items. Despite the journal’s broad coverage of architectural typologies, this study, among others, focused on the 20th-century Turkish sanatoria as conventional interiors. The notion that the sanatorium movement shaped the Modern Movement in architecture served as the foundation for this study. To reveal the journal’s vast breadth from urban to industrial scale, portable structures, everyday objects, and/or tuberculosis paraphernalia covered in the journal were evaluated as alternate treatment interiors, furniture, and objects. The extensive content and contextual information, along with the publication’s span from 1929 to 1972, made the analysis challenging. Therefore, and to overcome the constraints in selecting specific built environment typologies, this study set the framework to include the timeframe from the journal’s inaugural issue to the point at which the journal’s published doctors/ authors recognized the effectiveness of Streptomycin. This marked a turning point in the spatiality of tuberculosis and thus limited the scope of this study to the years 1929-1950. Due to its focus on the interiors of tuberculosis combat facilities, this study revealed that the journal proved to be a significant archive for the field of architectural historiography and design. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Article Yıkıma ve Hastalıklara Karşı İyileştirme: Hayao Miyazaki’nin Anime Filmlerinde Hijyenin Mekânsal Temsilleri(2025) Hosanli, Deniz AvciSinema, sağlık/hijyen ve mimarinin kesişim noktasında konumlanan bu çalışma, Studio Ghibli’nin direktörü, usta Japon animatör, film yapımcısı ve manga sanatçısı Hayao Miyazaki’nin (1941-) filmlerinde öne çıkan gündelik hayat ve hijyen temasını, üç filmi odağına alarak (Komşum Totoro, 1988; Ruhların Kaçışı, 2001; Rüzgâr Yükseliyor, 2013), değerlendirmektedir. Miyazaki’nin filmleri, iki savaş arası ve sonrası dönemde Japonya’daki sosyo-politik ve sosyo-kültürel krizlere dair önemli veriler sunan; savaşlar ve ardından gelen salgın hastalıkların toplum yaşamında yarattığı zorluklara ilişkin belgesel değeri olan yapıtlar olarak görülebilir. Filmlerde kahramanların, savaş zamanlarında tüberküloz gibi bulaşıcı hastalıklarla verdiği mücadele “Yıkımla Yüzleşmek” başlığı altında incelenmiştir. Takiben, “Hastalıkları Önlemek” başlığı altında, gündelik yaşamda uygulanmakta olan hijyen pratikleri ve bu pratiklerin mimari mekânlarla ilişkisi, özellikle konut iç mekân betimlemelerinin incelenmesiyle tartışılmaktadır. İncelenen üç farklı filmde ana setler olarak sağlık yapıları gösterilir. Bunlar, “Yıkımı Düzenlemek, Hastalıkları İyileştirmek” başlığı altında incelenen Komşum Totoro (1988) filmindeki Shichikokuyama Hastanesi ve tüberküloz koğuşu, Rüzgâr Yükseliyor (2013) filmindeki Kusakaru Dinlenme Evi ve Fujimi Kogen Sanatoryumu ve Ruhların Kaçışı (2001) filmindeki hamam/hidroterapi kompleksidir. Bahsi geçen sağlık kurumlarının esin kaynağı Japonya’nın kırsal kesimindeki 20. yüzyıl hastaneleri iken, sonuncusu hamam olarak anılsa da bu çalışmada tartışıldığı gibi daha çok bir nekahethane (iyileştirme evi) olarak hizmet verir. Bu araştırma, Miyazaki’nin filmlerindeki yıkıma karşı düzen, hastalığa karşı hijyen ikiliklerini mimari mekân üzerinden analiz etmekte ve değerlendirmektedir. Sonuçlar, Miyazaki’nin filmlerinde mimarinin, iyileştirme mekânlarının ve hijyenik tasarım ilkeleriyle kurulan düzenin yıkıma ve salgın hastalıklara karşı bir savunma aracı olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır.Article Tuberculosis in Cinematic Narratives: Architectural Spaces and Socio-Spatial Constructs(2024) Avcı, Deniz; Hosanli, Deniz AvciPulmonary tuberculosis has been prominent in representations of illness in theater and cinema since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Tuberculosis has served as a convenient vehicle for “romantic storytelling,” and the sanatorium as an ideal film set, one whose bucolic setting evokes in the audience a sense of escaping into nature. Focusing on three films—Una Breve Vacanza (A Brief Vacation, Vittorio De Sica, 1973), Učitel Tance (The Dance Teacher, Jaromil Jireš, 1995), and Kelebeğin Rüyası (A Butterfly’s Dream, Yılmaz Erdoğan, 2013)—this study explores the medico-social reflections of tuberculosis and those aspects of the disease that make it such a favorite of cinema, including “easy acting,” “romantic storytelling,” and “visual and spatial aesthetics.” The three films examined here utilize sanatorium facilities’ venues, spaces, and architecture to create visually appealing and spatially engaging aesthetics. These films, all of which take place in the mid-twentieth century, are selected to include a diverse range of sanatorium venues and different typologies of sanatorium architecture. These films not only convey information about tuberculosis and three different global sanatorium cases but also serve as valuable archival documents that offer insights into the socio-spatiality of the disease in architecture and cinema.Article Salient/Silent Actors of Ankara's Housing and the Vocational Network in the Turmoil of Transformation (1923-1928)(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2023) Avci Hosanli, DenizPurposeDespite the quantity of collaborations, the vocational network of the housing production in Ankara during its first five years (1923-1928) remains dispersed. The aim of this study is to identify all the actors of housing production and their collaborations which shaped Ankara's urban development as the new capital city.Design/methodology/approachThe study engages with the literature and archival documents to identify the actors of the housing production, i.e. architects, master-builders, public institutions, private companies, contractors and entrepreneurs, and their resultant vocational network in the housing production in Ankara during 1923-1928.FindingsDue to different agendas, such as speculation, financial interests or patriotism, the construction industry in Ankara had become an arena where many paths intersected, forming an intertwined vocational network. The profession of contractor became popular, and local architects, engineers and even individuals of various other professions began to work as mediators for foreign companies and public institutions, which required support especially in large-scale projects.Originality/valueThe dispersed information revealed that the actors of the housing production remained mostly anonymous, or only the famous architects were commemorated; however, others could be found within the lines of the established literature on Ankara and/or in archival documents. This research not only focuses on salient actors but also highlights the silent actors of the housing production and prepares charts to clarify the vocational network in Ankara during its first five years to contribute to the future studies on Ankara and its housing.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1From “prototype” To “model”: Architectural and Spatial Development of Block a (1924–1945) of Istanbul's Heybeliada Sanatorium(KeAi Communications Co., 2023) Avci Hosanli, Deniz; Degirmencioglu, C.; Avci-Hosanli, DenizThis article examines Block A, the first block-style building in Heybeliada Sanatorium in Istanbul. The purpose of this research is to understand its architectural and spatial development and discuss how in fact it was a “prototype” of Turkish sanatoria. Approached with a three-step methodology (documentation/evaluation/results) this research conducts architectural and spatial analysis on Block A. Primary sources like architectural documentation and restitution drawings, the writings of the institution's head doctor Tevfik İsmail Gökçe, periodicals on tuberculosis (TB), as well as pertinent literature are utilized. The findings demonstrate that Block A's development (1924–1945) was the result of knowledge transfer that introduced the universal sanatorium design principles, spatial experiments, adaptation to sociocultural norms, and trial-and-error processes. Not only it had a major impact on shaping of the second block-type building in the complex, the “model” Block B, but it also became exemplary of the subsequent Turkish sanatoria. The originality of this article is its exploration of the changing and evolving Block A in its resonation with the cultural tensions of Turkey's modernization process. This was established via the assessment of budgetary issues, medical developments and climatic experiments, the social issue of scarcity of TB beds in the country, spatial practices to separate the sexes as reflections of local traditions and culture in the shaping of spaces. © 2023 Higher Education Press Limited CompanyArticle Mediko-Sosyal Katmanlarıyla Kirazlıyayla (Uludağ) Sanatoryumu(2024) Avcı, Deniz; Hosanli, Deniz AvciBu çalışma, Bursa’nın Uludağ mevkiinde bulunan ve mimarlar Leman Tomsu ve Emin Onat’ın kariyerlerinde önemli bir mimari ürün olan Kirazlıyayla (Uludağ) Sanatoryumunu incelemektedir. 20. yüzyıl ortası Türkiye’si hakkında sergilemekte olduğu mediko-sosyal ve kültürel katmanlar dört ana başlık altında değerlendirilmiştir. Veremin politik bir söylem ve Cumhuriyet sağlık propagandası olması; “ayrıcalıklı sağlık” yaklaşımının toplumsal yankıları olarak Bursa Verem Savaş Derneğinin sanatoryum hakkındaki görüşleri ve kurumsal yansımaları olarak “ayrıcalıklı oda”; 20. yüzyıl ortası Türkiye’sinde kadın mimarın rolü ve kültürel miras olarak değerlendirildiğinde günümüzdeki yeni işlevi tartışılmıştır. Sağlık propagandasında önemli bir rol oynasa bile Bursa’nın veremle savaşında etkili olmadığı, ücretli sağlık hizmetinin – her ne kadar bu farklılık odaların dekoruna indirgense bile – ayrıcalıklı bir hizmeti ve sağlıkta sınıf ayrımını gösterdiği ve projenin kadın mimarı Tomsu’ya projenin diğer eş mimarına verilen hak ettiği kredinin verilmediği tespit edilmiştir. Dahası, günümüzde kompleksin koruma ve yeniden işlevlendirme sonucundaki güncel işlevi, tarihsel ve mediko-sosyal bağlamıyla değerlendirildiğinde, kültürel mirasımız olan bu örneğin – benzerleri gibi – riskte olduğu tespit edilmiştir.
