Contemporary Turkish Architecture 2017 — Cemal Emden

Architecture is a practice that defines the spaces of our Daily routines Places where we work rest learn and produce surrounds our everyday lives There are times when certain spaces will get us out of our routines and urge us to look around In this edited volüme we aimed to present an exciting array of contemporary architecture that provides us with distinct spatial experiences and thus gets us out of routines The sort of excitement in question is not a simple or temporary one It is an awakening that stays with us raies questions and adds value to the lives we lead Whilethe buildings in this book happen here and now in the historic journey of architecture they make modest proposals as to how we might sincerely relate to the old and the new the material the spatial organization and the technology In the company of Cemal Emden s photography they leave us on our own with the question of why they might be exciting