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With his colorful residential buildings, Bruno Taut was a decisive influence on Berlin settlement construction in the modern age. The seizure of power by the National Socialists forced the archi - tect to relocate from Germany via Ja - pan to Turkey in 1936. Not least thanks to the country's push to modernize and adapt to international modernity under the Atatürk government, Taut was able to continue his architectural work in exile until his death two years later. In addition to the construction of parts of the University of Ankara, several school buildings and his own residence, Bruno Taut was also responsible for the design of the catafalque for the state's founder. The authors present all buildings planned by the German artist of construction. This volume also il - luminates the extraordinary life of Taut in exile and his unmistakable signature woven into the architectural image of Turkey.

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Esra Akcan is an architect and obtained her PhD at the Columbia University in New York. She has published more than 100 articles in international specialist books and journals, and her work was exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennale and the Istanbul Architecture Festival. Bernd Nicolai studied art history, classical and Near Eastern archeology. He was professor at the Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi and the Universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Trier. His fields of research comprise for instance (post)colonial cultural and modern transfer. Since 2005 he has been professor of architectural history and preservation at the University of Berne.

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