The examination of transformation, realized in turkish architecture after 1980 through project competitions

The activity of architecture is one of the most important indicators of the social, economic, political and cultural conditions that a country is in. Therefore, this activity is directly influenced by the cultural system, dominant thoughts and trends. Especially the period after 1980 can be considered as a breaking point taking into consideration the political, cultural and economic developments and the reflections of these changes to the architectural field.One of the most valid ways of mentioning the transformations experienced by architecture is the architectural competitions. Competitions have a really prominent place in terms of understanding accepted new concepts or disagreements, architects having a say and establishment of the links between the society and architecture. Therefore, this thesis aims to analyze the transformations experienced by the Turkish architecture after 1980 in terms of competitions and to examine the original, effective role that competitions played on the development of Turkish architecture.In the second part of the thesis, development of Turkish architecture since 1980 until today and the transformations it experienced have been defined in terms of the socioeconomic and political data from the period and a short reminder of the pre-80 period.In the third part, importance of project competitions as an opportunity to survive architecture, its general method of working, its purposes and expectations from competitions are mentioned. Besides, in order to comprehend the competition environment in post-80 Turkey, development of competitions from the Republican period until 80s has been analyzed in terms of the development of the architecture of the period.In the fourth part, in other words actual sampling section, the post-1980 period was divided to three sections as 80s, 90s and 2000s, and development of competitions were described in each section and later structural and conceptual effects of architectural trends, formal reflections and the transformations that the country experienced on the architectural field were examined and several determinations and analyses have been made.