Architectural History in Turkey: Between Fieldwork and Archival Research

An Introduction to Approaching Architecture in the Muslim World: Novel Paths of Investigations

“…IJIA has succeeded in expanding into broader geographical regions as well as new areas of research, including archives, conservation, environmental issues, and refugee settlement, while also providing theoretically focused volumes on topics relevant to our post-colonial era and decentring the Zeitgeist. More recently, the increased complexity of architectural fieldwork in the region due to wars, security concerns, and at times, the detrimental effects of mass urbanization and conservation practices entangled with the writing of the past have also been the subjects of scholarly exploration (Allais, 2018;Um, 2021;Blessing, 2022;Mulder, 2022).…”