A Turkish Architect at Technical Unversity of Budapest: Semih Rüstem
Abstract
Semih Rüstem (1898-1946), is a Turkish Early Republican era architect who studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest. His relationship with Hungarian Turanism and his architectural education in Hungary makes him an exception among Turkish architects. In the early 1930’s, he designed several buildings mostly under the influence of European Modernism but traces of these Hungary-related steps can also be followed in some of his designs. The information gathered in the process of this research, which aims to examine Semih Rüstem’s life and career in the context of cultural relationships between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, provides a basis for a discussion on the formal sources of the buildings he designed.
Keywords:
Turkish Architecture, Early Republican Turkey, Hungarian Turanism, Hungary-Ottoman Empire RelationshipsPublished Online
2015-07-14
How to Cite
Gümüş, M. D. (2015) “A Turkish Architect at Technical Unversity of Budapest: Semih Rüstem”, Periodica Polytechnica Architecture, 46(1), pp. 38–45. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPar.8205
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