Modernleşme Projesinin Temsilinde Önemli Bir Yapi: Isviçreli Mimar Ernst Arnold Egli Ve Ankara Siyasal Bilgiler Okulu
An Important Building as for the Representation of Modernization Project: Swiss Architect Ernst Arnold Egli and Ankara Political Sciences School

Summary/Abstract: Architectural environment of Early Republic Period (1923-1950) has an effective language explicitly revealing political and cultural aspects of the Republic. Under such conditions, architects coming from German-speaking countries contributed quite significantly in the establishment of International Architectural Style of 30’s in Turkey. Throughout 1930s when the Building of School Political Sciences constituting the subject of the study was constructed, International Architectural Style brought to Turkey by the means of architects coming from Germany-speaking countries became effective. Enrst Egli, one of those architects, is one of the pioneers of this “modern” style with his numerous designs, and his educator and manager identity. Egli, carried out significant works in the field of educational buildings which he dealt with cautiously and fastidiously and explicitly regarded them as a symbol of prestige. Primarily educational buildings together with National Education Ministry Construction Office management, Istanbul Fine Arts Academy Architecture Branch management and teaching, design and application of important public buildings in Ankara are among the said studies. In our article, Ernst Egli’s architectural understanding which became clear with his works in Turkey and the Building of School Political Sciences of which design and construction was carried out by him in 1936 was introduced and evaluated especially by means of the original documents acquired from the archive of Eidgenössichen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ). International Architectural Style’s way of meeting of Republic’s expectation from “modernity”, it way of use of such formal language in the building of the School of Political Sciences, and this building’s contribution to the architectural aesthetics of capital was the main discussion of this article. In the article, 1920s and 1930s of architectural environment of Early Republic Period was initially dealt with in brief. Later Ernst Egli’s works in Turkey and architectural understanding were introduced. Afterwards, the building of School of Political Sciences that is one of the important applications of Egli in Ankara was dealt with, in the last section Ernst Egli architecture and Early Republic Period Architecture was evaluated.

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