Projects Selected for the Turkey Architecture Yearbook 2021 Announced
This year, the 2021 Turkey Architecture Yearbook features 28 architectural, 15 interior design, 3 urban design and landscape, and 2 restoration and adaptive reuse projects. The 48 projects completed in 2021 and selected for inclusion in the yearbook inspire us all to rethink.
Managed by the Arkitera Architecture Center and supported by Roca, the Architecture Yearbook aims to open up for discussion, exhibit, and document the built environment created by local or foreign designers in Turkey over the past year in the fields of architecture, interior design, urban design, and landscape.
This year, only 48 out of 130 projects evaluated by an independent jury consisting of Devrim Çimen, Enise Burcu Derinboğaz, Lale Özgenel, Emre Özer, and Ertuğ Uçar were selected to be included and exhibited in the yearbook. Istanbul, hosting 43% of the projects featured in the yearbook, shows a decrease compared to previous years. Istanbul is followed by İzmir with 9 projects and Muğla and Ankara with 6 projects each. Most of the projects in the yearbook are stores and commercial projects, followed by offices, social facilities, housing complexes, and single-family house projects.
What is the impact and power of architecture on the built environment? How can we discuss the future of the rapidly increasing architectural production each year through its past? What can change in the architectural environment in one year? How can we select projects that stand out with buildings rising in increasingly planned or unplanned environments, positively shaping our profession, cities, and lives? These questions, which are open to debate and not easily answered, can be brought back to our agenda thanks to the Architecture Yearbook.