Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/1712
Title: Imported but Not Delivered: the Construction of Modern Domesticity and the Spatial Politics of Mass Housing in 1930s' Ankara
Authors: Kilinç, Kıvanç
Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
Abstract: The social history of the modern house in the early years of the Turkish Republic has predominantly been told as the story of the affluent. This group's residential, professional and entertainment culture became a prime marker of modernisation whereas Turkish architectural historians have limited their research largely to the cubic style single family houses built for and by the upper and middle classes. But can these models explain the complexity of the modern house in 1930s' Turkey? How did architectural layouts, when transferred to different social, cultural and spatial contexts, contribute to the production of gendered divisions? My article adopts domesticity, gender and class as a framework to identify the emergence of indigenous forms of modern architecture and urbanism in early republican Ankara. Analysing the Workers' Houses Settlement (1938), I argue that although individual units were characterised by minimalised spatial configurations, the layouts significantly deviated from Western models. Furthermore, by appropriating localised building traditions and living with extended families, lower-income residents shifted the widely disseminated image of the middle-class ideal of domesticity imported from Central and Western Europe, which has become integral to Turkey's official discourse of modernism since the 1930s.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2012.746015
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/1712
ISSN: 1360-2365
1466-4410
Appears in Collections:Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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