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Power or Leisure? Remarks on the Architecture of the European Summer Embassies on the Bosphorus Shore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

Paolo Girardelli
Paolo Girardelli*
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University Department of History, 34342 Bebek, İstanbul, Turkey
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girardel@boun.edu.tr.
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Abstract

This study is part of a larger project on the Landscapes of the Eastern Question, contextualizing the architecture of diplomacy in İstanbul as a symbolic and material refraction of changing power balances and representational strategies. In Beyoğlu, where most of the main diplomatic residences were located, the embassies were originally Ottoman wooden konak structures, but, in time, the increasing influence of Russia, Great Britain and France fostered their monumentalization and the adoption of European academic classicism. By contrast, the summer embassies on the European shore of the Bosphorus remained largely local in terms of technology, image, materials, and spatial layout until the end of the Ottoman Empire. The paper argues that, for many diplomats, a stately winter residence representing national identity, along with a summer house in the spirit of the local traditions, would be used as a communicative and performative resource in the drama of European-Ottoman relations. It also evaluates foreign settlement on the northern shore of the Bosphorus as conforming to a strategy of surveillance and control in keeping with the strategic relevance and contested status of the straits.

Keywords

İstanbulurban and architectural historyEuropean presenceArchitecture and diplomacyBosphoruslandscape and settlementOttoman-European relationseighteenth and nineteenth centuriesthe Eastern Question
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 50: Special Issue on “Ambivalent Architectures” from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic , Spring 2014 , pp. 29 - 58
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey and Cambridge University Press 2014

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