Kadri Erkman: Modernist bir mimarın Ankara'daki mesleki uygulamaları

This study is an attempt to understand the architectural practice of Ahmet Kadri Erkman (1928-2015), an architect who produced numerous buildings around the country but specifically in Ankara. Erkman graduated from the Fine Arts Academy (Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi) in 1951 and started his professional career at the beginning of the 1950s. He worked in the institutional architecture office of İş Bankası between 1962 and 1994, and also as a freelance architect for the market for more than thirty years. Apartment blocks and office blocks that form the majority of his works, are located in the center of Ankara, and they have become parts of the modern built environment of the city. The aim of this study is to analyze the works of Kadri Erkman in the socio-political and economic context of the second half of the 20th century in Turkey and the urban and architectural context of the period in Ankara.