FOREWORD

Looking into the Balyan Architecture Archive /Arsen Yarman

With Respect to the Balyan Family and Imperial Architects

HAYCAR │ Solidarity Association of Architects and Engineers for the Revitalization and Research of Cultural Assets

Remembering the Balyans /Kevork Özkaragöz

PROLOGUE

Chapter 1 BALYAN ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE

Beyond Function: Balyan Architecture with Myths and Prejudices

Balyan Archive: Pile of Memories and Journey of Classification

Architect Balyans

Chapter 2BALYAN FAMILY: PERSONAL HISTORIES

Balyan Family and Its Origins

Krikor Bal(i)yan (1764-1831) and the Birth of a Family Practice

Senekerim Balyan (1768-1833)

The Last Amira Architect Garabed Balyan (1800-1866)

Education of Garabed Balyan’s Children

A Young Genius: Nigoğos Balyan(1826-1858)

Architect, Engineer and Versatile Tanzimat Elite Sarkis Balyan (1831-1899)

Death of the Great Patron, Stroke of Fate and Final Period of Balyan Practice

Sarkis Balyan as an Engineer-Mechanician and Inventor

Art Patron and Intellectual Architect: Hagop Balyan (1837-1875)

A Drawing Master and Imperial Draughtsman: Simon Balyan (1846-1894)

Last Architect of the Balyan Practice: Levon Balyan (1855-1925)

Chapter 3BALYAN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS

Imperial Palaces and Organization of Large Scale Construction Sites: Silence of the Construction Sites

A Pledge of Progress and a Visual Negotiation: Photography in the Representation of Sarkis Balyan’s Architecture

Portrait of the Architect

Chapter 4BALYAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE TANZİMAT ERA

Beyond Time and Geography: Multiple Sources of Balyan Eclecticism

Balyan Practice as a Pioneer of Neo-Gothic Elements in TanzimatArchitecture

History as an Encyclopedic Source

An Egalitarian Demand: Influences on Çırağan and Beylerbeyi Palaces

New Methodologies in the Search of a National Style and OttomanRenaissance

From Imperial Architect to Imperial Palace Master Builder: The Position of Architect in the Architectural Organization of Tanzimat Period

Chapter 5BALYAN ARCHIVE CATALOGUE

Ottoman Palace and Residential Architecture in the Tanzimat Era

Imperial Palaces on the Banks of Bosphorus

The Çırağan Palace of Sultan Mahmud II

Dolmabahçe: The Absolute Model of Tanzimat Palaces

The Design Model Integrating the Old Palace into the New Complex: Beylerbeyi

Nigoğos Balyan’s Facade Proposal for the New Çırağan Palace andHorrorVacui

Sarkis and Hagop Balyan’s Eastern, Polychrome Facade Proposals for theNew Çırağan Palace

The New Çırağan Palace

Monumental Coastal Line from Çırağan to Fer’iye Palaces

Sarkis Balyan’s Expansion Project for Yıldız Palace Büyük Mabeyn Kiosk

The Balyans and Imperial Feasts in the Tanzimat Period

A Project by Antoine Bourgeois in the Balyan Archive

In the Pursuit of an Ideal Plan: Kiosk and Pavilion Designs

Kabataş Esma Sultan Mansion

An Exception of Balyan Architecture: Middle Class Housing Designs

Decoration for the Empire

Decoration of the 19th Century Ottoman Palaces

Perspective Drawings by “Serkis Bey” in the Nubar Library, Paris

Parisian Furniture, Chandelier and Furniture Designs in the Balyan Archive

A Conceptual Spolia: Re-use of Çırağan Palace’s Mother-of-Pearl InlaidDoors in Yıldız Şale Kiosk’s Dining Hall

New Spaces of the Ottoman Diplomacy

Sarkis Balyan’s Reorganization for Chamber of Deputies

Sarkis Balyan’s Bâb-ıli Building Plan Proposals After the 1878 Fire

Religious Buildings

Tanzimat Period Mosques and Contributions of the Balyans

Sarkis Balyan’s Four-MinaretSelâtinMosque Design: Aziziye Mosque

The Second Set of Mosque Drawings in the Balyan Archive

Church Designs Between the Imperial Capital and the East

New Spaces of the Public Life

Sarkis Balyan’s Display Plan for the Collection of Antique Weapons atHagia Irene

Education Buildings

Sarkis Balyan’s Galatasaray Imperial High School Plan

The Hospital Project in the Balyan Archıve

Simon Balyan’s Design Proposal for Sarayburnu Entrepots

A Public Building and Landscape Design Project

Military Buildings

Military Barrack Designs as a Pioneer for the Idea of Architectural Order

Maçka Armoury

Industrial Buildings

Dadyan and Balyan Collaboration in the Early Period of the OttomanIndustrialization

Imperial Fez Factory

Dolmabahçe Gasworks

Rehabilitation of the Tanzimat City: The Balyans and Urban Design

ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the Index of Balyan Buildings

Index of Buildings and People

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