Beyond Shelter: Anatolian Indigenous Buildings

Beyond Shelter presents visual records of various houses and settlements in the Aegean, Mediterranean, Central, Eastern, and Black Sea regions of Anatolia. It explains the languages of the building patterns found, and also displays the ingenuity of the indigenous builders. While focusing on the relationships between climate, locality, materials and skills, Kemal Aran shows the reader the differentiation of Anatolia's characteristic patterns. Dramatic expressions in the unity of details, textures, materials and colors also produce building variations that stem from the builders' initiative. The buildings depicted are unique examples that satisfy both the physical needs and the intellectual motives of people. As shown in Beyond Shelter, languages of building patterns establish communal identity including individual variety.