Doğan Kuban

Mimarlık Tarihçisi, Mimarlık Profesörü, Akademisyen

Doğum
08 Nisan, 1926
Ölüm
22 Eylül, 2021
Eğitim
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture
Burç

Architecture historian (B.. n 8th April 1926 in Paris - D. 22 September 2021, Istanbul).France. He took an education of architecture with the encouragement of his uncle Emin Onat, who was an architect. After finishing the Faculty of Architecture of the Istanbul Technical University in 1949, he became an assistant in the Department of Architecture History of the faculty. Kuban, who went to Italy and worked on Renascence Architecture in the 1950s, became an assistant professor in 1958 with his work named “Osmanlı Dini Mimarisinde İç Me­kân Teşekkülü, Rönesansla Bir Mukayese” that he prepared after having returned to Turkey. He went to the Michigan University in USA as a guest academic member with the Fulbright scholarship in 1962. During some periods in the 1960s and 1970s, he made research studies in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington DC with the scholarship of the Harvard University. He became professor with his work named “Anadolu Türk Mimarlığının Kaynak ve Sorunları” in 1965. He worked as the dean of the Faculty of Architecture of İTÜ between the years of 1973-76. Kuban, who worked for the foundation of the Architecture History and Restoration Institute in the Faculty of Architecture of İTÜ, presided the institute, of which the foundation was completed in 1974. He was assigned as the vice president of the High Council of Monuments in 1981 and he conducted this task until the year 1983, in which the council was separated. He gave lessons in the King Faisal University in Dammam in Saudi Arabia in 1987-88. He was also interested in the topics of renovation and preservation. He conducted the renovation works of the Mosque of Kalenderhane in Istanbul. Kuban, who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ağa Han Mimarlık Award, published books and articles with Turkish, Islamic and Anatolian architectures and arts as topics. He put forward in his works that the Turkish art and architecture should be seen as an original creation area.

He defended that the fact that western researchers would see and treat the Islamic art as a homogenous whole was a wrong approach and that the arts of various Islamic countries differed both historically and geographically, even though they shared the same religion. He indicated that these, and thereby the Turkish art, should not be treated as local diversifications but that these were systems of features that should be treated in their own development conditions. He tried to spread these thoughts both in his works and in the speeches and lessons he gave in various external countries. He participated as an UNESCO expert to the international congress having the topic of “Protecting Islam Countries” and organized in the city of Lahore of Pakistan in 1980. He took on the task of the President of the Turkish Group and the exhibition organizer in the 1.International Asia-Europe Art Biennale held in 1986 in Ankara. He published weekly writings in the supplement Bilim Teknik of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.

WORKS:

Türk Barok Mimarisi Hakkında Bir Deneme (1954), Osmanlı Dini Mimarisinde İç Me­kân Teşekkülü -  Rönesansla Bir Mukayese (1958), 100 Soruda Türkiye Sanat Tarihi (1970), Türk ve islam sanatı üzerine dene­meler (1982), Mimarlık Kavramları: Tarihsel Perspektif İçinde Mimarlığın Kurumsal Sözlüğüne Giriş (5th ed. 1998), Sinan’ın Sanatı ve Selimiye (2. ed. 1998), İstanbul Yazıları (1998), Divriği Mucizesi-Selçuklular Çağında İslâm Bezeme Sanatı Üzerine Bir Deneme (1999), Tarihi Çevre Korumanın Mimarlık Boyutu: Kuram ve Uygulama (2000), Türkiye’de Kentsel Koruma: Kent Tarihleri ve Koruma Yöntemleri (2000), İstanbul Bir Kent Tarihi: Bizantion Konstantinopolis İstanbul (2nd ed. 2000), Çağlar Boyunca Türkiye Sanatının Anahtarı (2004).

REFERENCE: “Kuban, Doğan” (Büyük Larousse, c. 12,s. 7123, 1986), “Kuban, Doğan” (Ana Britannica, c. 14, s. 27-28, 1987), Deniz Mazlum - Kutgün Eyüpgiller - Zeynep Ahunbay / Prof. Doğan Kuban'a Armağan (1996),“Doğan Kuban ile ‘Sinan’ın Sanatı ve Selimiye’ Adlı Kitabı Üzerine Söyleşi” (Mimarlık, sayı: 284, 1998), Doğan Kuban / Divriği Mucizesi (1999), Günkut Akın / Prof. Dr. Doğan Kuban Sinan’ın Sanatı ve Selimiye’ye Eğiliyor Bu Kez (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 27.5.1999), İhsan Işık / Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2007) – Ünlü Bilim Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 2, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), İslamlaşma Tarihimizle Derin Bir Hesaplaşma / Doğan Kuban (cumuhuriyet.com.tr, 19 Haziran 2015 - gercekedebiyat.com, 21 Haziran 2015), 'Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kültür ve Sanat Büyük Ödülleri'nin sahipleri açıklandı (aa.com.tr, 25.11.2019), Mimar Doğan Kuban son yolculuğuna uğurlandı (Habertürk, 24.09.2021), Yaşamını yitiren Prof. Dr. Doğan Kuban kimdir (cumhuriyet.com.tr, 25.09.2021), Doğan Kuban'ın Ardından... | Osman Güdü ile Kent ve Yaşam (YouTube · KRTkulturTV, 25.09.2021), Doğan Kuban Eserleri (idefix.com, dr.com.tr, kitapyurdu.com, 25.09.2021), Doğan Kuban (iskultur.com.tr, 27.09.2021).

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