James Hyman
Ashgate
Hardback
172
2007
In this first full length study devoted explicitly to the examination of Turkish architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Nebahat Avcioglu addresses the core questions of when, why and with what practical consequences Europeans turned to the Turk for cultural inspiration. Avcioglu provides a far-reaching cultural and political reinterpretation of architectural thought in this period that links Western interest in Turkish architecture to identity politics.