Daily Details of Modernist Thresholds

A Speculation: What if Modernist Details Settled in Üsküdar/İstanbul?

Abstract

This drawing-text does not focus on buildings as design objects, but rather turns to the details of iconic works of modern architecture—works that almost never appear in our minds with the “contaminated” image through which such actors might be legible—in order to render visible the actors of space that carry the traces of life’s multisensory environment. In this speculation on the details of an ordinary day, staged by transporting modernist details into a different cultural and physical context, a drawing-text production is employed through orthographic systems of representation—often regarded as the dominant techniques of an architecture detached from life. As the material rigidity of architectural details is eroded in contact with life, the conventional fixity of representational techniques is unsettled within a narrative speculation provoked by the question “what if…”.