Browsing by Author "Sever, Muge"

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Architectural References within Émile Zola’s Novel The Ladies’ Paradise
(Istanbul Univ, FAC Letters, 2022) Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Layal Al Sahli; müge sever; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Sever, Muge; Sahli, Layal Al; Alsahli, Layal; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
The depiction of space in literature is crucial to every story as it guides the reader’s imagination regarding the story’s location and the characters’ surroundings. This paper studies the relationship between architecture interiors and literary spaces by using a methodology that draws on architectural literary analysis a methodology that uses literature as a medium to define and analyze architectural spaces and cues. Specifically it investigates the connections between architectural and spatial references and their influences on societal concerns in literature – the literary space within The Ladies’ Paradise (1883) a novel by Émile Zola (1840-1902). The retail space portrayed within the novel dominates the narrative. Thus the architectural spaces are described to support the storyline. These spatial cues indicate a specific overall theme namely capitalism – an important issue to discuss within architectural discourse. Zola reveals a new perspective on the social and architectural impacts on society under capitalism through the public interior space of Ladies’ Paradise. The research also indicates the correlation between architecture public space and retailing culture through the birth of the “department store ” thus forever altering society’s ideology on retail culture. Although the novel is categorized as fictitious the representation of 19th-century retailing culture women’s role within society and the significance of architecture are shown to be realistic to that time. In conclusion this paper reveals the dialogue between architecture societal gender issues and the evolvement of retail culture through the medium of literature and derives lessons from this dialogue.
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2025) Muge Sever; Melek Pinar Uz Baki; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Sever, Muge; Uz Baki, Melek Pınar; Baki, Melek Pinar Uz; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
This study explores the role of the public balcony in collective dwelling culture focusing on how it varies and is experienced through architectural and everyday practices. It investigates the balcony's potential to enhance the social and spatial quality of life by negotiating the relationship between privacy and publicness. These two concepts are addressed together to emphasize their interdependence and the architectural richness arising from their tension. The study draws on theories of public space to elaborate how this duality manifests in apartment design. Selected apartments built between the 1950s and 1990s in Ankara Turkey are analyzed through their contextual functional formal and relational characteristics. Through this analysis the public balcony is conceptualized as a distinct architectural element that contributes to originality within the apartment typology. By offering diverse design strategies public balconies serve as intermediaries that draw urban life into residential environments enriching the living experience of collective housing.
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Interdisciplinary Nature of Architectural Discourse within the Triangle of Architecture Sociology and Literary Fiction
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2023) Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Müge Sever; Sever, Muge; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
With the supposition that architectural discourse has an interdisciplinary nature this study aims to display the way literary fiction borrows several themes from architectural discourse in order to form its “literary spaces” as well as the way architectural discourse borrows several themes from other social sciences especially from sociology. Thus new wave science fiction writer J.G. Ballard’s literature provides a fruitful resource for the construction of this study. It will be demonstrated that spatial data within the five selected works of Ballard exist in a similar way within architectural discourse of the recent past that criticizes modern architectural movement via several themes. An analysis will be made parallel to the discourses of the critiques of modern architectural discourse. In this sense intersecting both the discourse of architecture and that of Ballard there emerge three common themes to focus on: social isolation class discrimination as a result of social isolation and alienation in the modern world. While displaying the mediatory role of architectural discourse between sociology and literary fiction through reading in the spatiality of the text the study will also draw lessons to be learned from Ballard’s works emphasizing the production of design theory through the field of discourse. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.