Architecture is an important aesthetic component that can leave a lasting impression on an individual’s mind about the values of a society. Today’s architecture, education, and culture have gradually turned into engineering practices and more artistic endeavours. Architecture in Fiction Literature is a book written with the intention of understanding the concept of living spaces as depicted in works of fiction and opening doors to a new perspective for readers about architecture.
It is a collection of essays by educators and literary critics on how architecture is presented in 28 literary works of fiction. These selected works, which include such famous works as Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kafka’s The Castle, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, are among many others. The other, collectively attempting to illustrate aspects of human life in a clearly expressive manner while adding an architectural background in the narrative. Each essay is unique and presents a variety of perspectives on the main topic, while also touching on some of the more specialized topics in the field, (such as spatial analysis, urban transformation, and time period settings), all of which have exploratory potential.
With this collection, the contributors aspire to set out to transform architectural education by including a mix of literary criticism. By building a foundation for architectural aesthetics, they hope to bridge the gap between artist and architect, while inspiring a new generation of urban planners, landscape artists, and interior designers to consider past work when designing living spaces. Architecture in fiction is also essential for any fan of fiction who wants to understand the imaginative depiction of living spaces and architecture in literature.
About the Editor/Author:
Prof. Dr. Nevihal Erdoğan obtained a Diploma in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 1982, and a Masters and Ph.D. He received his PhD from Istanbul Technical University in 1984 and 1992, respectively. She worked as a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Trakya University during the years 1992-2006, and is currently a professor in the Department of Architecture, Kocaeli University. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, and the UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture.
She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervised master’s thesis and doctoral thesis, and is currently teaching undergraduate and graduate architectural design and design theory. Her research interests focus on the interrelationship between culture and architecture, housing and settlement, and architectural design.
The majority of her publications focused on the historical cities of Istanbul, Edirne, and Izmit and their architecture. Her publications have been published in the Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, Social Indicators Research, and Open House International.
She is the author of seven books and more than forty papers published in national and international scientific journals, as well as the editor of two papers and the author of one section of the book.
As the conference president, she organized the 1st International Conference on Urban Planning, Architecture, Design and Urban Transformation and Conference 2014 and “12th International Conference: Standardization, Prototyping and Quality: A Means of Cooperation for Balkan Countries” in 2015. Between 2013 until 2016, Ardouane served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Architecture and Design at Kocaeli University.
Key words:
architectural identity, architecture and representation, conservative theory, fictional characters, gothic architecture, human, society literature, medieval, hunchback of Notre Dame, alpine, architecture, art, bildungsroman, magic mountain, modernity, disbelief, interior design,
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