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Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Ataturk

by Christopher S. Wilson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781409429777
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 162
  • Original Price: GBP 170.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 521 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Adaptive Reuse & Renovation

There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atat 1/4rk, 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 Dolmabah e 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 Atat 1/4rk'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 Atat 1/4rk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the Dolmabah e 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.

Christopher S. Wilson teaches architecture and design history at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

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