How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city’s inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van…[Read more]

Departing from the intention to explore Frank Gehry’s drawings serving to their own designer to grasp ideas during the process of their genesis, the article examines Frank Gehry’s concern about the revelation of the first gestural drawings and all the sketches and working models concerning the evolution of his projects, and his intention to cap…[Read more]

The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

The focus of this study is on the influence of urban ‘woods’ on people’s quality of life in disadvantaged neighbourhoods investigated via the lens of architecture in a Sub-Saharan metropolis. The new intra-Covid Urban Agenda acknowledges that current urban and state-wide resilience management plans, policies, and practices of neighbourhood are…[Read more]

This working paper presents a full and annotated translation of two titles by 19th-century Ottoman author-cum-statesman Ziya Pasha: (1) a newspaper article written in exile, modern in terms of format and reformist in terms of tenor and providing an staunch and iconoclastic critique of Ottoman language and literature, and (2) the versified preface…[Read more]

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

A discussion of majāz or allegory that is commonly ascribed to the 15th-century Ottoman polygraph Mollā Lüṭfī and that builds on the works of al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī.
The author gives two alternative overarching classifications: a linguistic vs. cognitive allegory classification, and a metaphor vs. hypallage classification that is supplemen…[Read more]

Prédio sito na Calçada de Sant’Ana tornejando para a Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90315009). 16 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The cop…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 18 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462960). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palácio da Mitra, Marvila, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474222). 2 October 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain e…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 24 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462953) . 4 September 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palacete na Rua Dr Alexandre Braga ODIVELAS PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q66814413). 10 October 2021. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture…[Read more]

Parque de Delfim Guimaraes AMADORA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98940408). 29 September 2018. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain…[Read more]

Quinta das Ameias, Areeiro, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98286048). Ruins. (Quinta das Ameias, aka Casal Vistoso, aka Antigo Solar da Boa Vista). 7 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and…[Read more]

Igreja do Antigo Convento de Arroios LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474004). Current Ukrainian Church in Lisbon. 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of…[Read more]

Ermida de Sao Marcos, CACEM & SAO MARCOS, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). (Chapel / Church). Ermida de São Marcos, Cacém e São Marcos, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at…[Read more]

Campo dos Martires da Patria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). Palacete no Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). 20 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the re…[Read more]

Antiga Fabrica de Gas da Matinha LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90334721). Conjunto de estruturas industriais na área da antiga Fábrica de Gás da Matinha (gasómetro). 8 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and comm…[Read more]