Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


modernism

Foreign Contribution to the Formation of the National Style of Turkish Architecture

The article studies the role of foreign architects in the creation of national style of the Ottoman and Republican Turkey. Foreign masters founded the process of searching the visualization of national identity and Turkish school of architectural education, but these alien experiments were used in Turkey only at the stage of proper styles development. The foreigners’ work was under governmental ideological control, and since the middle of the XX century national specialists were preferred and they competed with the European architectural bureau.