Description
Book SynopsisOutgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2013, under the title: Architecture for a new age: imperial Ottoman mosques in eighteenth-century Istanbul.
Trade Review"Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural Historians"
"One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019"
"Winner of the Alice David Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians"
"This book belongs to a new type of discourse on Ottoman architecture in which received accounts of events are challenged and the buildings are seen as important historical documents in their own right, allowing us to gain a better understanding of the period as a whole."
---Tim Stanley, Cornucopia"Ünver Rüstem’s groundbreaking study of this most unexpected of European Baroques reveals the vigour and inventiveness of a style usually dismissed as decadent and superficial. . . . Ottoman patrons may have drawn upon Western European models, but when they were done with them, there was nothing Western left."
---Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Art Newspaper"Fascinating . . . .
Ottoman Baroque, as Rüstem shows, is therefore about more than just the adoption of stylistic forms perceived as novel or attractive . . . . Rüstem’s lucid study offers a new perspective on the Baroque as an international phenomenon"
---Bernhard Schulz, Art Newspaper
