In the history of building, Mimar Kemaleddin is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Mimar Kemaleddin as Turkish architect (1870–1927).
Mimar Kemaleddin was born at Acıbadem in 1870. His recorded nationality is Ottoman Empire. He trained at Istanbul Technical University and Technische Universität Berlin.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect and writer.
His best-known building is Tayyare Apartments. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Ottoman Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Mimar Kemaleddin died in 1927, aged 57. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Tayyare Apartments
- Trained at Istanbul Technical University and Technische Universität Berlin
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