An Early Republican architect Sehabettin Uzluk: An evaluation on his scripts

There has not been much research on Şehabettin Uzluk, a productive architect in literary terms in the early Republic of Turkey, and his architectural identity has never been studied. While the thesis study was trying to establish Şehabettin Uzluk's unknown architectural profile in early Republican period in the light of existing documents, it also aims to determine the location of the Uzluk in the period of architecture by evaluating his views in the context of the period. Primarily in order to have a better understanding of Uzluk's activities, each repetitive biography document and containing limited information on several sources were supported by archival documents such as letters, photos. The main source of the thesis is composed of Uzluk's writings. From his writings, the ones about architecture, urbanism and Konya were selected and the thesis progressed with some titles which were created with the headings from these writings. Uzluk's views on these topics were put forth compared with other architects of the period and through these topics that were discussed in the environment of Early Republican Period architecture and some evaluations were made about the architecture and urbanism of the period. While the present study addresses some of the discussion topics in the Early Republican architecture literature on the axis of the writings of Uzluk; mostly it reveals that it can be possible to look at the "architect" differently from this practical point of view as an author. It tells about an architect who did not build but brought himself into existence as a writer and an architect through his writings.