Národní architektura v Turecku
National Architecture in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: Architecture is closely linked to the state, or rather, it is one of the means of expression that can serve to formulate and express collective identity, which becomes urgent especially in periods when significant social changes take place and the existing identity is reformulated. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, an attempt was made in the Ottoman Empire, under the influence of the idea of ​​pan-Omanism, to unite the population under the common identity of the Ottoman nation. However, due to growing nationalism, this idea did not take hold. The search for traditional forms in the past gave rise to the style of the so-called First National Architecture, whose representative buildings we can admire to this day. However, the Turks did not escape nationalist ideas either, and so with the emergence of Turkey as a nation-state, the need arose to formulate a new national style, called the Second National Architecture, which drew on the folk architecture of Anatolia.

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