Turgut Cansever
| Turgut Cansever | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 September 1921 Antalya, Istanbul |
| Died | 22 February 2009 (aged 87) Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Aga Khan Award for Architecture |
| Projects | Ertegün House Demir Holiday Village Turkish Historical Society |
Turgut Cansever (12 September 1921 - 22 February 2009, İstanbul) Turkish Architect, city planner, thinker. He's the only architect in the World that took Aga Khan Award for Architecture for three times. He's also known as "The Wise Architect". He took charge in many town, zoning and protection areas projects. He designed Beyazıt Square. He is the owner of the first art history doctoral thesis.
He was born in Antalya in 1921. He's the eldest of five children of Hasan Ferit and his wife Saime.
His father Hasan Ferit was the son of Kasimpasa Turabi dervish lodge sheikh and Sublime Porte's senior bureaucrat Sheikh Ali Effendi. Mr. Hasan Ferid was an intellectual and a doctor who chose studying medicine instead of being bureaucrat, was head doctor at Sina Front in war years. He was among the founders of Turkish Hearts. He was dissent to government ideology and by rejecting offer for high level duty, he chose to take place in struggle for malaria in Antalya and Adana. He was banished in Tavsanli Bursa.
His mother Saime was a teacher from Plovdiv. She was raised as the student of Halide Edip Adıvar, at the age of 19 she accepted to be a volunteer teacher at Jerusalem.
Cansever went to primary school at Ankara and Bursa. After primary school his family moved to Istanbul. He completed his high school education at Galatasaray High School. Some of his classmates were Turan Güneş, Turhan Feyzioğlu, İlhan Usmanbaş, Avni Arbaş, Cihat Burak.
He went to Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in thinking of being an artist and he met with Halil Dikmen, Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu, Sedad Hakkı Eldem. He decided to study architecture. He became assistant of Sedad Hakkı Eldem. After his Architecture education he headed for art history doctoral thesis. In 1946 he started lessons and his Islamic Art History teacher Ernst Diez moved him so much. In 1949 "A Stylistic Analysis of Ottoman and Seljuk Column Heads" was the first art history doctoral thesis in Turkey. He visited 14 Anatolian city and 111 structures. His work published with the name "Chasing Eternal Space: Column Heads in Ottoman and Seljuk Art".
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