Turkish Architecture Yearbook includes 28 architectural, 15 interior, three urban design and landscape, and two restoration and re-functioning projects this year. The 48 projects completed in 2021 and qualified for the yearbook encourage us to reimagine.
Managed by Arkitera Architecture Center and realized with the support of Roca, the Architecture Yearbook aims to discuss, exhibit and document the built environment created by local and foreign designers in the fields of architecture, interior design, urban design, and landscape in the last year.
This year, only 48 of the 130 projects evaluated by an independent selection committee made up of Devrim Çimen, Enise Burcu Derinboğaz, Lale Özgenel, Emre Özer, and Ertuğ Uçar were selected to be exhibited and enter the yearbook. The share of Istanbul, which hosts 43% of the projects annually, is decreasing compared to previous years. İzmir follows İstanbul with nine projects. Muğla and Ankara come next with six projects each. The majority of the projects in the yearbook are stores and commercial projects, followed by offices, social facilities, housing estates, and single house projects.
What is the impact and power of architecture on the built environment? How can we discuss the future of architectural production, which increases exponentially every year, over its past? What can change in the architectural environment in a year? How can we choose projects that shape our profession, cities, and our lives in a positive way, which come to the fore with the buildings rising in a planned or unplanned environment increasing day by day? Thanks to the Architecture Yearbook, we can put these questions, which are too controversial to be answered easily, on our agenda again.
