Session

Architecture and Spatial Planning

Description

In the recent history of the modernization of dwelling and housing culture, much attention has been given to oral history methodology. However, less research has been done on 1960’s houses and very little on actual homeowners’ firsthand experiences in their homes in Kayseri, Turkey. For this reason, this study attempts to use oral history as a way to critically understand how the modern home was built and how residents lived in the space in the 1960’s. In this context, the Akdamar Family Apartment is assumed to provide a large corpus of data, documenting the living, subjective, social, cultural, and dialectical experiences of a modern home during the 1960’s by utilizing oral history methods. To verify this hypothesis, interviews with Akdamar Family members have been utilized, and the physical space of the Akdamar house has been reconstructed and analyzed. In addition to this reconstruction, a floorplan and various photographs are used to demonstrate the actual family life lived within that space in those years. By using the data gathered from oral history methodology performed with the Akdamar Family, it is possible to examine how the family as individuals used their home during this period as well as the relationship between the space they inhabited and their domestic needs in order to understand the 1960’s modern house movement. This case study has also recorded stories about various aspects of historic neighborhoods, including architectural features and the alteration of Republic-era houses in Kayseri. As a result, this paper attempts to demonstrate that the way in which oral history stories are constructed tends to destabilize the notion of 1960’s architectural intention.

Keywords:

Oral history, Akdamar Apartment, Modern house, Modern movement in 1960’s

Session Chair

Caroline Jaeger-Klein

Session Co-Chair

Bekim Ceko

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-69-1

First Page

40

Last Page

47

Location

Pristina, Kosovo

Start Date

27-10-2018 3:15 PM

End Date

27-10-2018 4:45 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.30

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Understanding of Modern Movement in Kayseri By Using Oral History Methods: A Case on Akdamar Apartment, 1960’s

Pristina, Kosovo

In the recent history of the modernization of dwelling and housing culture, much attention has been given to oral history methodology. However, less research has been done on 1960’s houses and very little on actual homeowners’ firsthand experiences in their homes in Kayseri, Turkey. For this reason, this study attempts to use oral history as a way to critically understand how the modern home was built and how residents lived in the space in the 1960’s. In this context, the Akdamar Family Apartment is assumed to provide a large corpus of data, documenting the living, subjective, social, cultural, and dialectical experiences of a modern home during the 1960’s by utilizing oral history methods. To verify this hypothesis, interviews with Akdamar Family members have been utilized, and the physical space of the Akdamar house has been reconstructed and analyzed. In addition to this reconstruction, a floorplan and various photographs are used to demonstrate the actual family life lived within that space in those years. By using the data gathered from oral history methodology performed with the Akdamar Family, it is possible to examine how the family as individuals used their home during this period as well as the relationship between the space they inhabited and their domestic needs in order to understand the 1960’s modern house movement. This case study has also recorded stories about various aspects of historic neighborhoods, including architectural features and the alteration of Republic-era houses in Kayseri. As a result, this paper attempts to demonstrate that the way in which oral history stories are constructed tends to destabilize the notion of 1960’s architectural intention.