Assoc. Prof., Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
Assoc. Prof., Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Architecture (2021-2023)
Chevening Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OXCIS) (2021)
Barakat Postdoctoral Fellow, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford (2019-2020)
Asst. Prof. Dr., Altınbaş University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Planning (2018-2019)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem
Assoc. Prof., Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Architecture (2021-2023)
Chevening Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OXCIS) (2021)
Barakat Postdoctoral Fellow, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford (2019-2020)
Asst. Prof. Dr., Altınbaş University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Planning (2018-2019)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem
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Books & Book Chapters by Nilay Ozlu
Topkapı, Kremlin, and Hofburg". In Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires, Ulrich Hofmeister, Florian Riedler (eds.), Routledge, 2023.
Open Source / To Download the Full Book: ttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003130031
This imperial self-sufficient city with an area of 700,000 square meters and thousands of inhabitants, could be accepted as an Islamic city par excellence.
However, rather than focusing on the "golden age" of the Topkapı Palace, namely :fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, this chapter includes numerous travel accounts depicting the royal complex after its gradual abandonment following the seventeenth century.
This chapter will map the transformation of the Topkapı Palace during the period between the eighteenth to the twentieth
centuries, from a secluded and glorious seat of the Ottoman rulers to a tourist spectacle, and aims at questioning the role of travel accounts in this construction.
Talks by Nilay Ozlu
The paper seeks answers to the following questions and aims at discussing the similarities and discrepancies with respect to: What was the role of traditional palaces in defining or redefining the urban fabric of the imperial cities during the period of modernization? How do these historic palaces respond to the transforming political and social dynamics of the age of reforms? How were they abandoned, reused, refurbished, or reconstructed with respect to the changing political and visual ideologies of the time? How were these imperial palaces and royal collections visited by tourists, displayed to foreign gaze, and positioned as showcases of imperial legacy and patrimony? What were the steps and discourses of their museumification and preservation?
To commemorate his life, we collected the memories and thoughts of his friends and colleagues as written texts and audio recordings in the weeks following his death. We also recorded an extended audio interview with some of these colleagues and friends in Istanbul discussing his life, ideals, and accomplishments. What follows are written and oral testimonies in Turkish, English, and Greek of his friendship, activism, and scholarship.
We have divided them in two parts. The podcast, interspersed with the aural remembrances, can be accessed through the streaming link. The second part is a PDF document containing written memorials of Vangelis. We are releasing them now, at the end of 2015, as a small tribute to his life. In addition to this, our readers and listeners can find a selected bibliography of Vangelis’s writings and a link to the podcast we recorded with Vangelis about his research two months before his passing. We thank all the people who have contributed to this endeavor.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/vangelis.html
Topkapı, Kremlin, and Hofburg". In Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires, Ulrich Hofmeister, Florian Riedler (eds.), Routledge, 2023.
Open Source / To Download the Full Book: ttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003130031
This imperial self-sufficient city with an area of 700,000 square meters and thousands of inhabitants, could be accepted as an Islamic city par excellence.
However, rather than focusing on the "golden age" of the Topkapı Palace, namely :fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, this chapter includes numerous travel accounts depicting the royal complex after its gradual abandonment following the seventeenth century.
This chapter will map the transformation of the Topkapı Palace during the period between the eighteenth to the twentieth
centuries, from a secluded and glorious seat of the Ottoman rulers to a tourist spectacle, and aims at questioning the role of travel accounts in this construction.
The paper seeks answers to the following questions and aims at discussing the similarities and discrepancies with respect to: What was the role of traditional palaces in defining or redefining the urban fabric of the imperial cities during the period of modernization? How do these historic palaces respond to the transforming political and social dynamics of the age of reforms? How were they abandoned, reused, refurbished, or reconstructed with respect to the changing political and visual ideologies of the time? How were these imperial palaces and royal collections visited by tourists, displayed to foreign gaze, and positioned as showcases of imperial legacy and patrimony? What were the steps and discourses of their museumification and preservation?
To commemorate his life, we collected the memories and thoughts of his friends and colleagues as written texts and audio recordings in the weeks following his death. We also recorded an extended audio interview with some of these colleagues and friends in Istanbul discussing his life, ideals, and accomplishments. What follows are written and oral testimonies in Turkish, English, and Greek of his friendship, activism, and scholarship.
We have divided them in two parts. The podcast, interspersed with the aural remembrances, can be accessed through the streaming link. The second part is a PDF document containing written memorials of Vangelis. We are releasing them now, at the end of 2015, as a small tribute to his life. In addition to this, our readers and listeners can find a selected bibliography of Vangelis’s writings and a link to the podcast we recorded with Vangelis about his research two months before his passing. We thank all the people who have contributed to this endeavor.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/vangelis.html
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the foundation of the Turkish Republic empowered the nationalist and anti-cosmopolitan agendas, and tools for self-representation and national identity were redefined. With an urge to “re-discover” Turkish architecture and its pure forms, exclusion of “foreign” items became an instrument for nation building strategy. A historiographical survey of the Republican era confirms that many architects and scholars of the young Turkish Republic rejected the architecture of the nineteenth century and labeled it as a period of “decline” and “corruption”, marked by the works of foreign and non-Muslim architects, such as that of Vallaury’s.
The house located In the mountains of Khopoli, India creates a dramatic impact and establishes a direct relation with nature through the use of local volcanic basalt stone in various forms and techniques.
An architectural evaluation of Istanbul Naval Museum by Teget Architecture.
olanak sağlıyor. Farklı mecralarda, farklı deneyimlerin sonucu ortaya konan bu eserler mülteci meselesine çarpıcı bir bakış sunuyor, sınırlarda yaşanan ölüm kalım mücadelesine
dair bir söz üretiyor.
Nilay Özlü, “’Barbarous Magnificence in Glass Cases’: Imperial Treasury and Ottoman Self-Display at the Topkapı Palace”, Muqarnas 39 (2022): 153-192.
Citation:
Nilay Özlü, "II. Mahmud Döneminde İstanbul: Kent, İdeoloji ve Mimari", Mimarlık ve Yaşam Dergisi, 6(1), 2021, 199-222.
Early-18th century is accepted as a significant turning point in the Ottoman history, due to the intellectual and cultural transformations and social developments taking place in political, economic, artistic, and architectural fields of life. This era, corresponding to the reign of Ahmet III and grand vizierate of Ibrahim Pasha, was later defined as the "Tulip Period" and attained contradicting meanings. Especially the novel architectural forms of the period and their source of inspiration became a point of discussion. Offering a historiographical perspective, this article articulates the changing meanings and contradicting connotations attributed to the so-called Tulip Period, during the late-Ottoman and early-Republican periods. Court poetry of the early-18 th century provides us clues for understanding the contemporaries' perception of their environment, which took the city and its architectural elements as a subject, praising their novel forms, innovative designs, unseen beauties, and unique ornamentations. The young Turk era marks a turning point in the perception and instrumentalization of the past and it introduced a critical perspective towards the "Tulip Period", which was defined as the beginning of Westernization and divergence from Classical Ottoman art and architecture. This narrative adopted by the early-Republican architects associated the era with corruption and decline. Scrutinizing texts written by Ottoman and Republican architects, the article takes this transformative era of encounter, ambiguity and hybridity as an immanent experience of Early Modernity.
Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun yönetim merkezi olan Topkapı Sarayı, inşa edildiği tarihten günümüze, muhtelif tamirat ve tadilatlar geçirmiştir. Bu makale birincil kaynaklar ışığında Topkapı Sarayı’nın 19. ve erken 20. yüzyılda geçirmiş olduğu belli başlı onarımları inceleyerek, dönüşen tamir faaliyetlerini ve anlayışını tartışmayı hedeflemektedir. Geç Osmanlı dünyasında padişahların isteklerine, sosyopolitik bağlama ve dönemin mimari modasına uygun olarak gerçekleştirilen tamiratların, II. Meşrutiyet ile birlikte nasıl dönüştüğü ve bu dönemde koruma bilincinin ortaya çıkışı da tartışılacaktır. Bu dönüşüm Osmanlı modernleşmesine dair önemli anekdotlar ortaya koymaktadır.
Topkapı Palace Renovations from Mahmud II to the Second Constitutional Era
The Topkapı Palace, seat of the Ottoman rulers, had been repaired and renewed numerous times since the mid-15th century. Under the light of primary sources, this article studies the major renovations that took place in the Topkapı Palace during the 19th and early-20th centuries and tackles changing renovation practices and conceptions. These renovations, which were carried out according to the wishes of the ruler, socio-political context and architectural fashions of the period, had transformed during the Second Constitutional era with the emergence of the idea of preservation.
http://egemimarlik.org/108/index.php?fbclid=IwAR175NkgscsWQzP50u54a9DoHXXZSbEBzMi-xWqHKl6Db5XfzVUaEete_n0
https://eltearabszak.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Papers-presented-to-Istvan-Ormos-on-his-seventieth-birthday.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2xGdsGtpA4l1nVEGhV9L3dYz95fTMEBgdrhPE2-33V-zv8N-qqt3J8V6w
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/issue/51099/666362
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/904732
In this episode, we discuss the history of Beyoğlu's Emek Cinema from its construction in 1884 to its 2013 destruction, which sparked major opposition among Turkish intellectuals, writers, researchers, members of the film industry, and lovers of cinema and of Beyoğlu, many of whom fought to keep this piece of Istanbul's cultural and architectural heritage. Through a wide-ranging discussion with architects and historians, this episode shows how the history of one building can speak to trajectories of urban development, violence, and transformation in Istanbul from Ottoman times until today.
The Topkapı Palace during the Long Nineteenth Century, Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Boğaziçi University, 2018.