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Book Part Cultural Identity as a Constructed Reality and Its Reflection in Architectural Praxis: Sedat Hakkı Eldem in Early Republican Turkey(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Uysal Ürey, Zeynep ÇiğdemArchitecture can be seen as a cultural system of signification that enables the transfer of meaning through architectural forms. As with any form of signification therefore, architecture guides our thinking and structures our thought (Hall 1993, 17). This capacity of architecture has been consciously used throughout history to convey certain messages, and was often used by political regimes as a means to communicate certain ideals. In Early Republican Turkey, we observe a similar attempt. In the pursuit of forming a new cultural identity, architecture was used as a means to reflect a modern yet national cultural identity. The integration of the modern-national duality within the definition of cultural identity was of seminal importance for the new nation-state to participate within the international system of nation-states while keeping its self-identity (Smith 1988, 20). However, this dichotomous definition eventually created its cultural tensions and a bi-polar oscillation was observed between the two poles of the modern-national duality (Ergut 1999, 32). Architecture was used in this context as a sign to resolve the cultural tensions of the social sphere by conjoining and reflecting this dual identity through solutions that involved compromise. Sedad Hakkı Eldem’s studies in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s provide a viable forum for discussing these issues in detail. In this framework, this paper will focus on the period between the late 1930’s and the early 1940’s of Early Republican Turkey and discuss respectively: the notion of “cultural identity” as a phenomenon of the modern nation-state; the cultural identity formulations of the Early Republican Turkey; the architectural praxis of the late 1930’s and the early 1940’s, and the architectural praxis of Sedat Hakki Eldem.Book Is it Real? Structuring Reality by Means of Signs(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Dökmeci Yörükoğlu, Papatya Nur; Onur, Zeynep; Tarasti, Eero; Src, lhamiIs it Real? is a collection of twenty-eight papers on the most challenging, provocative and profound topics related to the quest for real and virtual realities of vision and other senses, and realities that are either constructed or imagined. There was no school, no theory, no methodology, nor any empirical approach in semiotics which was not forced to take a position, whether implicitly or explicitly, in attempting to discuss this issue. Semiotics is a discipline dealing with signs, and, thus, it is commonly thought that if we say of something that it is a sign, then it is something less real than the thing itself to which it refers. As such, the field of problems which opens from the theme Is it Real? is almost endless but also relevant. This volume presents interactive dialogue related to this question structured under six different headings: five papers on the topic of Visual Realities; six on What is Real?; five on Textual Realities, concentrating on realities revealed from literature or the written language through texts; five on Constructed Realities; three on Virtual Realities; and, finally, four papers on Imagery Realities.
