FOREWORD
- Looking into the Balyan Architecture Archive / Arsen Yarman
- With Respect to the Balyan Family and Imperial Architects
- HAYCAR - Solidarity Association of Architects and Engineers for the Revitalization and Research of Cultural Assets
- Remembering the Balyans / Kevork Özkaragöz
PROLOGUE
Chapter 1 BALYAN ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE
- Beyond Function: Balyan Architecture with Myths and Prejudices
- Balyan Archive: Pile of Memories and Journey of Classification
- Architect Balyans
Chapter 2 BALYAN FAMILY: PERSONAL HISTORIES
- Balyan Family and Its Origins
- Krikor Bal(i)yan (1764-1831) and the Birth of a Family Practice
- Senekerim Balyan (1768-1833)
- The Last Amira Architect Garabed Balyan (1800-1866)
- Education of Garabed Balyan’s Children
- A Young Genius: Nigoğos Balyan (1826-1858)
- Architect, Engineer and Versatile Tanzimat Elite Sarkis Balyan (1831-1899)
- Death of the Great Patron, Stroke of Fate and Final Period of Balyan Practice
- Sarkis Balyan as an Engineer-Mechanician and Inventor
- Art Patron and Intellectual Architect: Hagop Balyan (1837-1875)
- A Drawing Master and Imperial Draughtsman: Simon Balyan (1846-1894)
- Last Architect of the Balyan Practice: Levon Balyan (1855-1925)
Chapter 3 BALYAN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS
- Imperial Palaces and Organization of Large Scale Construction Sites: Silence of the Construction Sites
- A Pledge of Progress and a Visual Negotiation: Photography in the Representation of Sarkis Balyan’s Architecture
- Portrait of the Architect
Chapter 4 BALYAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE TANZİMAT ERA
- Beyond Time and Geography: Multiple Sources of Balyan Eclecticism
- Balyan Practice as a Pioneer of Neo-Gothic Elements in Tanzimat Architecture
- History as an Encyclopedic Source
- An Egalitarian Demand: Influences on Çırağan and Beylerbeyi Palaces
- New Methodologies in the Search of a National Style and Ottoman Renaissance
- From Imperial Architect to Imperial Palace Master Builder: The Position of Architect in the Architectural Organization of Tanzimat Period
Chapter 5 BALYAN ARCHIVE CATALOGUE
Ottoman Palace and Residential Architecture in the Tanzimat Era
- Imperial Palaces on the Banks of Bosphorus
- The Çırağan Palace of Sultan Mahmud II
- Dolmabahçe: The Absolute Model of Tanzimat Palaces
- The Design Model Integrating the Old Palace into the New Complex: Beylerbeyi
- Nigoğos Balyan’s Facade Proposal for the New Çırağan Palace and Horror Vacui
- Sarkis and Hagop Balyan’s Eastern, Polychrome Facade Proposals for the New Çırağan Palace
- The New Çırağan Palace
- Monumental Coastal Line from Çırağan to Fer’iye Palaces
- Sarkis Balyan’s Expansion Project for Yıldız Palace Büyük Mabeyn Kiosk
- The Balyans and Imperial Feasts in the Tanzimat Period
- A Project by Antoine Bourgeois in the Balyan Archive
- In the Pursuit of an Ideal Plan: Kiosk and Pavilion Designs
- Kabataş Esma Sultan Mansion
- An Exception of Balyan Architecture: Middle Class Housing Designs
Decoration for the Empire
- Decoration of the 19th Century Ottoman Palaces
- Perspective Drawings by “Serkis Bey” in the Nubar Library, Paris
- Parisian Furniture, Chandelier and Furniture Designs in the Balyan Archive
- A Conceptual Spolia: Re-use of Çırağan Palace’s Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Doors in Yıldız Şale Kiosk’s Dining Hall
New Spaces of the Ottoman Diplomacy
- Sarkis Balyan’s Reorganization for Chamber of Deputies
- Sarkis Balyan’s Bâb-ı Âli Building Plan Proposals After the 1878 Fire
Religious Buildings
- Tanzimat Period Mosques and Contributions of the Balyans
- Sarkis Balyan’s Four-Minaret Selâtin Mosque Design: Aziziye Mosque
- The Second Set of Mosque Drawings in the Balyan Archive
- Church Designs Between the Imperial Capital and the East
New Spaces of the Public Life
- Sarkis Balyan’s Display Plan for the Collection of Antique Weapons at Hagia Irene
- Education Buildings
- Sarkis Balyan’s Galatasaray Imperial High School Plan
- The Hospital Project in the Balyan Archıve
- Simon Balyan’s Design Proposal for Sarayburnu Entrepots
- A Public Building and Landscape Design Project
Military Buildings
- Military Barrack Designs as a Pioneer for the Idea of Architectural Order
- Maçka Armoury
Industrial Buildings
- Dadyan and Balyan Collaboration in the Early Period of the Ottoman Industrialization
- Imperial Fez Factory
- Dolmabahçe Gasworks
Rehabilitation of the Tanzimat City: The Balyans and Urban Design
ABBREVIATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
- About the Index of Balyan Buildings
- Index of Buildings and People
