Information About the Architect:
Seyfi Arkan did his training to become an architect in the Architectural Department of the Academy of Fine Arts (today MSU) and graduated from the studio of Vedat Tek 1927 at the head of his class. He won a State scholarship to study at the Berlin Technical College in Germany where he attended workshops and seminars at the studio of Hans Poelzig. When he returned to Turkey in 1933, he was appointed in the same year to lecture at the GSA Studio of City-Planning . In 1933, Seyfi Arkan began his career as an architect, by winning first prize in a closed competition for a design for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cankaya, Ankara; one year later he won the competition to design the Presidential Sea Pavilion at Florya, Istanbul. Later, in response to Ataturk's wishes, he carried out the design and construction of other presidential buildings such as the Secretary-General's Pavilion at Florya, the Pavilions for Aide-de-Camps and the Interior Ministry respectively (1935-36) as well as the Foreign Affairs Office in Cankaya (1934-36). He became known as "Ataturk's architect" due to these buildings; the best-known of his many other works and projects are the Ankara Headquarters of the Municipal Bank (today the Iller Bank) (1935-37), the Ucler or İ. Galip Fesci Apartment (1934-35) in Ayaspasa, Istanbul, the Turkish Embassy in Tehran (1937) and Cemberlitas Palas (1938) in Istanbul . As well as the many branch-offices he designed for the Turkish Trade and Ottoman banks between 1949 and 1955, he was also responsible for the Sumerbank Pavilions at the Izmir International Fair in 1937 and 1944 respectively; the workers' lodgings and social complexes at Kozlu ve Uzulmez in Zonguldak (1934-36); the power plant and transformer buildings in Istanbul (1943-47); and a considerable number of apartments and, in particular, detached houses, sport and recreation complexes. The houses for workers and the social complexes he built following studies he had made on such designs are among the first in Turkey to have a covered terrace and make use of less open space in a functionalist , inexpensive and minimalist manner. Arkan was also involved in zoning and urban planning.
Arkan , with his own personal style and sustained proficiency in his profession, may be considered an excellent choice as an example of one of the first generation of architects in the Republic of Turkey .
Atadan House (a.k.a Camlı Köşk):
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk got this building done for his sister Makbule Atadan. So this building gets its other name from Makbule Atadan. This structure was first used as guest and president between 1951 and 1954. Then it was used for prime minister’s and senate minister’s residance between 1954 and 1970.
Various living spaces which are thought to be first function of structure are specified by level differences in the building. Guest rooms, sitting rooms for women, cigarette rooms, winter garden and servant rooms are designed perfectly. This structure is not a closed box. It expands towards nature with its covered and semi covered terraces. These terraces create common spaces which belong tı both iner and outer spaces. These spaces were covered and designed to be available for their later function by restoring and differentiating in various periods.
Camli Köşk was restored lastly in 1994 and 300 meter-square bed capacity was added to the building. Since 1996 it has been used for hosting of foreign government ministers and prime ministers.
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Comments:
In Arkan’s Project, it is impossible not to see the influnce of german ecole and influence of Poelzig. Atadan House (Camlı Köşk) and Foreign Minister House are the most prominent examples of his project.There is a perfect balance of tranparency and privacy in both his projects.The colonade form of atadan house creates a monumental expression and arkan provide spaces for social and bureaucratic elite. But we think the main purpose is to display the living environment of the new civilized turkish woman on atatürk’s sister makbule atadan’s life.The house is the first example of the ‘exhibiting’ the new turkish woman to the rest of the world to show how turkey is trying to change take off their oriental and islamic ‘clothes’. Turkish woman is not enclosed in 4 walls and inside of the house ,unlike in Ottoman example so glazed facades(tranprancy) which is an important component of the modern architecture is selected intentionally.Thus, Atadan house is the most important example of turkish architecture in terms of its fuction and its new modernist approach.
References:
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2005/cilt22/sayi_2/25-49.pdf
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