Tile as a decorational element in Izmir buildings

Our study called Tile as a Decorational Element in İzmir Buildings, covers the tiles that decorate twenty-six buildings built in Late Ottoman Period, First National Architecture and Republican Periods. Tiles in religious buildings are usually reflects samples what the placed at the same time in the 18th century of the Late Ottoman Period. In civil architecture, 19th century examples of the Late Ottoman Period, as well as the 20th century Kütahya productions of the First National Architecture and Republican Periods can be seen. İzmir buildings with tile decorational are grouped they are according to the type of building and purpose of use in the catalog section. After the architectural features of the buildings, the historical periods of the tiles, the craftsman, their place in the building, their forms, materials, techniques and compositions are explained. Their positions in the buildings are in various areas such as pediment, wall, windows, door, console, dome pulley and minaret. White-cream color clay tiles are single color glaze or multi color painting technique under transparent colorless glaze. The compositions varies with vegetal, geometric, architectural element, object, symbolic motifs and writing elements. Apart from the whole panel composition, different composition editings is designed according to the bordures, corners and plate sections of the panels. The tiles we mentioned in our study are among the rare works that provide examples of Kütahya production with all their features and techniques.