Architecture of East and West Villas in Arykanda Ancient City

The topic of the thesis is the architecture of the Eastern and Western Villas in the Ancient City of Arykanda, within the borders of the Village called ''Arif'' in Antalya Province, Finike District. In the thesis, these two villa structures belonging to the city were described particularly in terms of their architectural features, their phases were defined and dating recommendations were made in the light of archaeological data. The West villa is located in between the area of West entrance of the City and the terrace houses of traditional architecture of arykanda located south of the West cliff of the City starting from the bottom of the trade agora and bouleterion continuing to the south by forming terraces. It is understood that this structure, differs from the traditional architecture of the City, was built by planning in terms of both material and plan. According to its relations of spaces, mosaic ornemants and plan form the building shows most of the features of roman imperial period residental architecture with atrium The East Villa is connected to the West Villa by a pathway in the west, and to the city in the east by the road coming from the west of the Sebasteion structure. The resemblance to the houses formed by cutting the bedrock in the city and the coins found belong to the early two periods indicate that the building belongs to the hellenistic period. The building was re-planned around a courtyard and converted into a residence with atrium With the influence of the West villa and the population increase caused by the roman period. Residential architecture with atrium in Anatolia and Lycia region was examined and included in the study. In this context, the plan and functional change of the atrium house architecture and the regional changes in the buildings were compared and the Romanization process of the Arykanda City was discussed over these two houses. Keywords Arykanda, Arykanda East Villas, Arykanda West Villas, Dwelling Architecture, Lycia