{"product_id":"architecture-in-translation-9780822353089","title":"Architecture in Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEsra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This study is seminal on two counts: it analyzes the relatively new concept of cultural translation, and it affords the reader an extremely interesting account of the evolution of Kemalist cultural policies.\"\u003cb\u003e—Kenneth Frampton\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eForm Material Assembly: The Work of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tracing the surprisingly intertwined twentieth-century histories of German and Turkish residential housing and urban planning from the garden city via the urban\u003ci\u003e Siedlung\u003c\/i\u003e to the national house, Esra Akcan brilliantly deploys lingual translation theory as a flexible template to analyze zones of asymmetrical exchange in architecture and urban planning. \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e moves compellingly beyond modernist universalism and nationalist regionalism toward a cosmopolitan ethics as a goal for a global architecture.\"—\u003cb\u003eAndreas Huyssen\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eOther Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“While\u003ci\u003e Architecture in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes clearly a ‘next step’ in scholarly works that examine the histories of the Turkish nation’s architectural and planning projects, it is also an ideal ‘first step’ toward analyzing more critically the dynamics of interaction and exchange that we today otherwise generalize under terms like modernization, globalization, or development. Charting the origins, diffusions, and transformations of ideas, approaches, and key actors through multiple historical and geographic contexts, Akcan’s book also emerges as a most readable and thoughtful history of ideas.”  -- Kyle T. Evered * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *\u003cbr\u003e“Esra Akcan’s excellent book, \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, focuses on the history of German-Turkish exchanges in residential architecture in the 20th century...Directing her attention towards questions of urbanity, population, and housing, Akcan successfully situates architecture within the modernization paradigms of the new Turkish republic.” -- Nazan Maksudyan * Middle East Media and Book Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“Akcan’s book is a significant contribution to the historiography of modern architecture by transcending ‘East-West’ polarization. This is a monumental undertaking and an excellent introduction to the brave new world of multipolar histories where the old fictions of a centerand a periphery no longer apply.” -- Can Bilsel * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *\u003cbr\u003e“The readers of this book will find a history of modernism that goes beyond an imperial cartography, and will encounter multiple voices of modernism including those of patrons, clients, and inhabitants of modern architecture. In this cartography, the map that Akcan draws is a rich historical study of houses in Germany and Turkey.” -- Tülay Atak * Journal of Architectural Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"An important contribution to cultural theory and architectural history, \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e is specifically recommended for those interested in cultural translations in the history of the Middle East. Given the richness of its literary and visual references as well as its fluent writing style, it is an intellectual joy to read.\" -- Namkik Erkal * International Journal of Middle East Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Modernity in Translation 1\u003cbr\u003e Translation beyond Language 6\u003cbr\u003e The Theoretical Possibility or Impossibility of Translation 9\u003cbr\u003e Appropriating and Foreignizing Translations 15\u003cbr\u003e The Historical Unevenness of Translation 17\u003cbr\u003e The Ubiquity of Hybrids and the Scarcity of Cosmopolitan Ethics 21\u003cbr\u003e 1. Modernism From Above: A Conviction about Its Own Translatability 27\u003cbr\u003e New City: Traveling Garden City 30\u003cbr\u003e New House: Representative Affinities 52\u003cbr\u003e New Housing: The Ideal Life 76\u003cbr\u003e From Ankara to the Whole Nation: Translatability from Above and Below 93\u003cbr\u003e 2. Melancholy in Translation 101\u003cbr\u003e The Melancholy of Istanbul 107\u003cbr\u003e A Journey to the West 119\u003cbr\u003e The Birth of the \"Modern Turkish House\" 133\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003cem\u003eSiedlung\u003c\/em\u003e in Subaltern Exile 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSiedlung\u003c\/em\u003e and the Metropolis 148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSiedlung\u003c\/em\u003e and the Generic Rational Dwelling 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSiedlung\u003c\/em\u003e and the Subaltern 195\u003cbr\u003e 4. Convictions about Untranslatability 215\u003cbr\u003e Untranslatable Culture and Translatable Civilization 215\u003cbr\u003e \"The Original\" 218\u003cbr\u003e Against Translation? The National House and \u003cem\u003eSiedlung\u003c\/em\u003e 233\u003cbr\u003e 5. Toward a Cosmopolitan Architecture 247\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eEx Oriente Lux\u003c\/em\u003e 249\u003cbr\u003e Melancholy of the East 252\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eWeltarchitektur\u003c\/em\u003e—Translation of a Treatise 263\u003cbr\u003e Toward Another Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture 277\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 283\u003cbr\u003e Notes 291\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 337\u003cbr\u003e Sources of Illustrations 375\u003cbr\u003e Index 383","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406072095063,"sku":"9780822353089","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353089.jpg?v=1730494431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/architecture-in-translation-9780822353089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}