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There have been five different settings that at one time or another
have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatA1/4rk, organizer
of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president
of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different
architectural constructions - the bedroom in DolmabahAe Palace,
Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same
palace; his funeral stage in Turkey's new capital Ankara; a
temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent
and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as 'Anitkabir'
(Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the
movement of AtatA1/4rk's body through the cities of Istanbul and
Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations.
It examines how each one of these locations - accidental, designed,
temporary, permanent - has contributed in its own way to the
construction of a Turkish national memory about AtatA1/4rk. Lastly,
the two permanent constructions - the DolmabahAe Palace bedroom and
Anitkabir - have changed in many ways since their first appearance
in order to maintain this national memory. These changes are
exposed to reveal a dynamic, rather than dull, impression of
funerary architecture.
Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built
environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory,
through its transformation and consistency over time by means of
'urban strategies', which have developed throughout history as
cities have adjusted to numerous political, religious, economic and
societal changes. These strategies are organised on a 'memory
spectrum', which range from demolition to memorialisation. It
reveals the complicated relationship between urban strategies and
their influence on memory-making in the context of Berlin since
1895, with the help of film locations. It utilises cinematic
representations of locations as an audio-visual archive to provide
a deeper analysis of the issues brought up by strategies and case
studies in relation to memory-making. Foreword by Kathleen
James-Chakraborty A new volume in the Mediated Cities series from
Intellect
There have been five different settings that at one time or another
have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatA1/4rk, organizer
of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president
of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different
architectural constructions - the bedroom in DolmabahAe Palace,
Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same
palace; his funeral stage in Turkey's new capital Ankara; a
temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent
and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as 'Anitkabir'
(Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the
movement of AtatA1/4rk's body through the cities of Istanbul and
Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations.
It examines how each one of these locations - accidental, designed,
temporary, permanent - has contributed in its own way to the
construction of a Turkish national memory about AtatA1/4rk. Lastly,
the two permanent constructions - the DolmabahAe Palace bedroom and
Anitkabir - have changed in many ways since their first appearance
in order to maintain this national memory. These changes are
exposed to reveal a dynamic, rather than dull, impression of
funerary architecture.
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