Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ARCHDESIGN '18 / V. INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CONFERENCE, Dubrovnik, Hırvatistan, 13 - 15 Nisan 2018, ss.524-534
The modernization studies that started with the foundation of the Turkish Republic deeply affected every
part of the society. It has been an important initiative in terms of architectural and urban sense in order
to change the traditional way of life from the Ottoman Empire to the modern life. These initiatives
transform city as well as urban sense in the minds of the city's users. On the ideal of this new modern city,
which can be called the project of self-embodyment of the ideology of the republic, public opinion is also
a big issue besides the professional viewpoints of architects and urban planners. On those years, the only
platform to declare architects opinions was the monthly journal “Arkitekt”, published by Zeki Sayar in
1931. While there was no theoretical infrastructure yet and only architectural knowledge was based on
some foreign resources translated into Turkish, this journal was really important. Especially on the first
ten years period, a lot of articles written by Turkish architects about the construction laws of government.
At the same time humor magazines in Turkey were more popular than this journal. Humor magazines are,
by nature, public, dissenting, independent and impartial media. They make their production for the
society again by being fed from the society. In this great transformation of the city, it was also important
in this sense that the humor magazines which produced a large number of content in that period handled
the matter. The cartoon artists expressed their opinions about this urban development by writing and
mostly by drawing. This work will try to examine and compare the productions about new city and
construction laws of these two different media, between the period of 1930 and 1940.