I heaved a sigh of relief when the plane landed at the Venice Marco Polo Airport. Having thought I was never going to make…
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You can explore Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi’s remarkable collection at the Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi (1899 – 1984): Architectural Historian, Restorator, Collector exhibition. This time on the blog we take…
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Long before the first tourists getting off steamships and the Orient-Express appeared on the banks of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, the performance…
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A Universal Mystic at the Heart of Modernism Turgut Cansever (1920 – 2009) Turgut Cansever first spun the intellectual cocoon of his own conception…
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İstanbul Research Institute presents The Four-Legged Municipality: Street Dogs of İstanbul, an exhibition that sheds light upon the adventure of street dogs, an integral part of İstanbul’s daily…
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Upon his return to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1932, Yenal found himself in the midst of an important reform process. Once the…
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Exhibitions
Churches of Constantinople at the Beginning of the 20th Century with Drawings by Adolphe Thiers
“We hope that these surveys and studies will contribute to a better knowledge and a better appreciation of the art of the city. [.…
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The panel titled “To Carry Stones with Tonguç: Village Institutes and İsmail Hakkı Tonguç on the 52nd Anniversary of his Death” was held on…
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The urban history of İstanbul holds several important breaking points. Tanpınar, for example, makes the following assessment on the rupture that took place at…
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The exhibition Mindful Seed Speaking Soil: Village Institutes of the Republic 1940-1954, organized by the collaborative efforts of the İstanbul Research Institute and İsmail Hakkı Tonguç…