Tez özetleri Astronomi ve Uzay Bilimleri Anabilim Dalı

The Evaluation In Art Trends Of Urban Areas In The Republican Period, An Example Of Istanbul

Urban Open Areas, one of the most fundamental factors to shape urban locations, house artistic objects and landscape components, creating urban design unit elements. The unique understandings and trends that are thrust forward shape these artistic objects and landscape components to reflect urban open areas against a general understanding of design. This in turn, allows the urban locations to gain an identity.

Urban open area design dates right the way back from the Palaeolithic age, where historically, mankind first tried to become a community, to our present day. The artistic approaches showing the changes and the styles that have developed from the results of these approaches show that the use of open areas follows an evolutionary path parallel to the way the open areas were used.

The aim of this research is, to carry out an exploration of urban open areas for public use during the Republic period in Istanbul and the landscape components and artistic objects found in these areas. Thereby, to identify how these areas interacted with art during the design and planning processes and to evaluate in which way artistic trends affected these areas in which we live. In view of this, the research comprising of seven sections is as listed below:

First and second sections: concentrates on the basic concepts, city, urban open area, art concepts are studied and questions are asked on the relationships of these three factors.

Third section: Examples from around the world are used to try to explain how, for each period in history, the urban open area designs, that reflect our style of living, are influenced by art trends. Landscape factors and artistic objects are then in turn influenced by these designs.

Fourth Section: Information has tried to be given on these artistic approaches, effective all around the world and how they have reflected on Turkey. The developments particularly witnessed in urban open areas in Republican Turkey and the artistic approaches effective in the design of these areas and their architectural styles has been tried to be identified in this theses.

Fifth section: materials and methods have been identified. In view of this, five examples of urban open areas were chosen as material that were either renovated or newly built during various dates from the Republican period in Istanbul. For the thesis, three different methods were identified. The first method comprised of literature research, the second method was geological studies belonging to the chosen area examples and the third method consisted of surveying experts in order to obtain expert opinions related to the research topic.

Sixth section: contains the results. In the first part of this section, the functions of the five research areas chosen according to different criteria and their landscape factors and artistic objects were identified during the course of history and the identification was attempted of art trends according to these studies. In the second part, evaluations were made on data from the results of a survey study carried out on the experts.

Seventh section: contains the discussion and conclusion. In this section, one of the results are; when one looks at urban open area designs in the world, one sees that they are shaped under the influence of a particular artistic approach and that they are thought of together with artistic fact. Together with this, in the example of Istanbul, when one looks at Republican period urban open area designs, one can see that artistic trends have developed through imitation and new technology, whereas in the West, they are born through the requirements of the environment and through a certain philosophy. After the Early Republican Period in particular, even though different artistic trends have come about together with changes experienced in urban open areas, it would be wrong to completely evaluate the studies in a particular artistic bias. Whereas an urban open area may represent a trend due to its specific qualities, the same qualities may be evaluated in another way by other experts. Therefore, instead of putting into practise artistic trends in urban localities based on only shape and colour, an artistic approach delving into the philosophical and ideological direction shall present cause for more successful examples to be developed.

ÇETİNDAĞ Kerem ,

Danışman : Yrd. Doç. Dr. Sanem ÇINAR

Anabilim Dalı : Peyzaj Mimarlığı

Programı (Varsa) :

Mezuniyet Yılı : 2007

Tez Savunma Jürisi : Yrd. Doç. Dr. Sanem ÇINAR (Danışman)

Prof. Dr. Hakan ALTINÇEKİÇ

Prof. Dr. Adnan UZUN

Prof. Dr. Aytuğ AKESEN

Prof. Dr. Yahya AYAŞLIGİL