Lunedì 7 maggio, alle ore 17.00, la Sala Ketty La Rocca del complesso Le Murate ospita la presentazione del libro "Design across borders: Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey" organizzata da Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea. Saranno presenti gli autori.

Alla scoperta del lavoro degli architetti italiani nell'impero ottomano e nei territori limitrofi insieme agli architetti Ezio Godoli e Paolo Girardelli. Un volume dedicato all'esperienza di architetti e costruttori italiani in Turchia, nonché in molte delle terre un tempo appartenenti all'impero ottomano.

Presentazione in lingua inglese
This volume represents the first scholarly work in English devoted to the experience of Italian architects and builders in Turkey, as well as in many of the lands once belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Covering a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities (today’s Romania) to Anatolia and the Aegean region, the book is the result of individual research experiences that were brought together and debated in an international conference in Istanbul in March 2013, organized in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture and Boğaziçi University.

Grounded on a flexible notion of identitarian boundaries, the book explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analyzed and evaluated by scholars from six different countries on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials. Forms, ideas, individual mobility of actors and materials, networks of patronage, material and political constraints, and religious and cultural difference all play a significant role in shaping the landscapes, buildings and architectural projects presented and discussed here. From late 18th and early 19th century experiences of interaction between neo-classical backgrounds and westernizing Ottoman forms to the Italian proposals for a Turkish republican iconic landmark like the Ataturk mausoleum in Ankara; from the design of the first Ottoman university building to Ottoman varieties of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and to the infrastructures and urban developments of the 1950s in Turkey, the book is both a richly illustrated and documented overview of relevant cases, and a critical introduction to one of the most enticing areas of encounter in the global history of 19th and 20th century architecture and design.

Ingresso libero.

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