ORYANTALİST MİMARLIĞIN SIRA DIŞI ÖRNEĞİ: KUBBESİ VE MİNARESİ İLE BUDAPEŞTE FİL AHIRI
EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLE OF ORIENTALIST ARCHITECTURE: ELEPHANTS HOUSE WITH DOME AND MINARET

Summary/Abstract: Orientalist buildings are designed with an architectural approach in which some building elements related to the architecture of Islamic countries are combined in a complex way. Both interiors and in the context of structural form associations, that brought up the imitation concerns, the western world has developed through the design approach improved for some of cliches of eastern architecture. These structures combine building elements in a variety of forms to create an associations as to the east, rather than ensuring the integrity in terms of plan schemes, functions and facade features. Especially the building of a mosque associations it has been produced for quite different and amazing functions, in the West. In this article, the reactions of Ottoman government about the building of Budapest Zoo Elephants House in the form of a mosque in 1912 was evaluated and it was aimed to construct the orientalist style of the building with its history and politics. With the effect of the industrial revolution and colonialism, it was concluded that the architecture of the eastern community, which is a cultural symbol related to their past, was transformed and became definable by the west within the cover of orientalist architecture produced.

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