Sabiha Gürayman practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Sabiha Gürayman as first Turkish female civil engineer and volleyball player.
Sabiha Gürayman was born at Bitola in 1910. Her recorded nationality is Ottoman Empire. She trained at Istanbul Technical University.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as volleyball player and civil engineer.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Sabiha Gürayman died in 2003, aged 93. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Istanbul Technical University
