IMU Sociology Club held an online talk titled “Look to Explore: Houses in Urban Life” on April 30, 2021 with Lect. Semih Akşeker of Medipol University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture. The moderators of the talk were club members Filiz Çullu Aspirin and Zeynep Çiçek.
Akşeker started his talk by explaining how people relate to the house and what residential plans tell us, underlining the relationship between urban fabric and society. He stated that the classical Turkish house has changed, especially with the effect of industrialization, and mentioned that the architectural continuity we see in Europe is not observed in our country. He further stated that as a result of the increasing population and the increasing need for houses with urbanization, houses have lost their distinctive differences, emphasizing that now we all live inside concrete blocks, in tiny apartments without a garden, in rooms that are all the same.
In the question-answer session held after the presentation, topics such as what the parts of a house tell us, the differences between Ottoman and contemporary houses, and today’s architecture in Turkey were discussed.