Ottoman Bureaucracy & Palace Architecture

While considering world architecture under of political, socio-economical and cultural effects, without any doubt, the concept of Ottoman Architecture has to be studied. Ottoman palaces are very important examples of world architecture with their architectural space organization. They are not only governmental centers, but also houses of sultans. Thus, Ottoman palaces have to be studied, within the parallelism of governmental changes of Ottoman Empire, technological developments and changes of urban living conditions of Ottoman society. The importance of new Ottoman palaces, which were designed as results of changes on space organization of classical Ottoman palaces, has not been so touched until today. These palaces are still standing as the documents of political and cultural changes in modernization movements of Ottoman civilization. Discover the mysterious world of Ottoman Palaces now !

Autorentext

Zafer Sagdic is not only an architect but also she is an architecture historian. She got her master degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1999 & she has graduated from PhD degree from Yildiz Technical University in 2006. She has various attendance of conferences all over the world & is the author of various papers about architecture history.