A critical view of Turkish architectural thought and architectural practices in the tourism after 1980

Abstract

Theyears of 1980's and 1990's caused important changes in Turkish architecture. It is observed that the sovereign of modernism, which directed the Turkish architectural practiceand thought until these years, began to collapse. From now on, many style and thought can continue their existence together in the architectural field. Tourism architecturein Turkey has an important place in this change, living. Thus, it will not be wrongto say that the first field where these new ideas, new styles of after 80's revealed themselvesis the tourism architecture.It is impossible to abstract the changes lived in architectural field from the changes observed in the other fields of life. No doubt that, the economic, political and social changesinfluenced the architecture very much. Because of this, it is possible to be able to perceive and analyse exactly the changes lived in architectural scene, only with being able to define the changes in all these fields, which were considered as effected the architecture directly-indirectly. The economic and political changes lived in this period, were situated in this study initially because of this reason. In the following chapters, the marks of the changes lived in these fields are searched on the architecture of the period.Tourism architecture takes places in this study in the reason of constituting the field which the explosion of style lived in architecture in these years, best observed. The medium, which architecture participated in, is discussed with the examples of tourism architecture.Key words: Modernism, postmodernism, pluralism, popular culture, tourism architecture, planning policies, identity,