62 Dosya: İstanbul’un Cumhuriyet Dönemi Modern Mimarlık Mirası

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Ve ancak bu özelliklerini koruyarak yaşama 
geçirebildiği ölçüde içinde bulunduğu krizden 
çıkabilme, kendini yeniden üretme ve sorunla-
rına sürdürülebilir çözümler bulma umudunu 
canlı tutabilir. 
Ahmet Tercan, Doç. Dr., MSGSÜ Mimarlık Fak. Mimarlık Bölümü
Kaynakça
Furedi, Frank (2016), 
What’s Happened to the Universities
, 
New York: Routledge, 2016
Haskel, Jonathan, Stian Westlake (2017), 
Capitalism wit-
hout Capital
, Princeton University Press
Hobsbawn, E. J. (1998), 
Sanayi ve İmparatorluk
, çev. A. 
Ersoy, Ankara: Dost Kitabevi
University Campus as a Place for Representation, 
Consumption and Competition
What makes a university valuable and what does a university campus 
represent? The essay attempts to focus on the evolution of the 
contemporary educational built environments, namely university 
campus, and question the actual transformation taking place in the last 
two decades, within the relation of the global crises in education.
Historically the formal educational environments, dating as back Ancient 
Greece, have a lengthy process, built upon the developing concepts 
related to cultural and social issues over the centuries. 
First formal examples of the university campuses appeared in Central 
Europe in the Middle Age, run by the Church, can be defined as isolated 
and controlled environments for the education of privileged feudal elites 
of the time, such as University of Bologna, Paris and Oxford…
Starting from the 17. century, a series of significant developments had 
taken place in the United States of America in the field of university 
campuses. University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, 
who was a state man and self-educated architect. The campus was 
indeed a mere physical representation of his view ideal American society 
and values as well as legitimating the authorised ideologies. 
As the cultural interactions proceed between the counties, the American 
university campus concept has become a preferred model for the new 
universities in developing countries, creating a powerful cultural impact 
on the society. The qualities of the new campuses have carried 
depending on the relations with the surrounding culture and society. 
The universities founded within the last two decades in Turkey, have 
nevertheless created a series of pup up campuses despite the lack of 
authentic tradition and cultural memory. The actual creation of artificial 
university values thru the campuses have eventually transformed the 
meaning and function of educational environments. The universities 
have been commercialised and campuses become mere places of 
consumption. 
The real danger of commercialisation lies under the fact of loosing 
control over the researches and scientific studies to the global 
institutions who financially support universities. 
The objectivity and independence of the universities as the places of 
production of pure science and criticism for the truth should therefore 
be preserved with care for long-term public interest. The architecture of 
campuses representing traditional values of higher education should 
indeed regenerate new approaches for solutions…

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