D-DAI-IST-KB29869, Dressler 1972 Our monthly photograph that we have chosen from our archives depicts a street in the Fatih district of Istanbul. Houses with bay windows line the two sides of this street. This picture tells a lot about Ottoman architecture and its destruction. The concrete house at the end of the street is a […]

D-DAI-IST-NWS-2015-0147 We continue our “Photo of the Month” series with a copy of a plan. We owe this colorful drawing, which delicately gives all the details of Urfa’s Lidar Village, to the interest shown by architectural history expert Werner Schnuchel from Karlsruhe Institute for Technology to the local architecture of Anatolia. While working in the […]

D-DAI-IST-Inv-064168 If these two beautiful women in the photograph who enjoy emptiness in front of the Kariye Mosque or formerly known as the Chora Monastery, with their children in the shade of trees see the current state of this area they would surely be very surprised as much as us who are looking at the […]