THE BALYANS Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive

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

İngilizce

2021

26 x 31 cm