Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Guest Lecturer : Stamatis Zografos

Dr Stamatis Zografos is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Architectural History and Theory at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture and a Visiting Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at University of Greenwich. He is also a practising architect and co-founder of Incandescent Square, an interdisciplinary platform for research and design with interests spanning from architecture and urbanism to critical heritage and curating (https://incandescentsquare.com/). He is the author of Architecture and Fire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation published in 2019 by UCL Press.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Guest Lecturer : Süha Özkan and Serdar Anlağan

Suha Özkan was born in 1945. He studied architecture at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, and Theory of Design at the Architectural Association in London. Dr. Özkan has undertaken extensive research on the theory and history of architecture, design, vernacular form, and emergency housing. He taught and lectured extensively in North America, Europe, Central-, South-, and Southeast Asia, and throughout the Middle East. With Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Geneva, Dr. Özkan served as the Deputy Secretary General from 1983 to 1990. He was the Secretary General between 1990 and 2006. On behalf of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Dr. Özkan has organized three important international architectural and urban design competitions. These were the Revitalization of Samarkand, Uzbekistan (1991), and the New Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar (1997) Doha Corniche Urban Design Competition (2002). In 2005, he was the head of 22. UIA Istanbul World Congress of Architecture. In 2015 he established Bodrum Architecture Library mainly based on his own collection of books, periodicals and rare documents."

I. ARCH. SERDAR ANLAĞAN (MSU) An architect and poet, Serdar Anlığan was born in Ankara in 1968, He studied at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Architecture Section of Urban Planning at 1985 but changed the course of the discipline to Interior Architecture in 1986 and graduated in 1991. Between 1990-1994, he worked as a cartoonist and graphic novelist for many magazines, He has projects and applications for institutions, such as Sadberk Hanım Museum, Darüşşafaka Museum, Bodrum Underwater Archeology Museum, Sermet Çifter Library, Haci Abdullah Restaurant, Air France. In 2005, he read his own manifesto at the Free Chair at the UIA 22nd World Architecture Congress at Istanbul and withdrew from his professional career. Between 2010-13 he gave "Contemporary Art" lessons at Mugla University Bodrum Fine Arts Faculty. Currently, he is the director of Bodrum Architecture Library.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Guest Lecturer : Müjde Tönbekıcı

Müjde Tönbekici is an enthusiast of cooking traditions in ancient Greek and Roman periods. She has been conducting workshops in Sirince and Istanbul, where she teaches cooking techniques and recipes based on the cookery recipes of Roman gourmet Apicius. She is one of the writers of the book ‘Cooking in Antiquity’.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Guest Lecturer : Ahmet Iğdırlıgil

Ahmet Iğdırlıgil was born in 1955. After studying architecture in Turkey’s Mimar Sinan University he worked for several different architectural firms, including Mag. Arch. Walter Stelzhammer in Vienna. Right after completing his doctorate in TU Wien, he settled in Bodrum, a coastal town of Turkey and established his own office ‘Sans Architecture’. His architectural works are mainly shaped around local traditions and materials from Bodrum and Aegean region.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

is an independent, non-profit research platform that seeks to make history accessible to all students world-wide by collaborating with hundreds of academics. Its campus, which draws its inspiration from the vernacular architectural forms and communal spaces, will be hosting the Visiting School.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Minoan Cooking Pots
Minoan cooking pots are also known as ‘tripods’. Having three legs attached at their base and handles on each side, they were placed on the fire directly and used for ritual activities and cooking.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

The second week of the Visiting School, will focus on translating our learnings and observations into building artefacts. We will be working closely with local experts, examining various vernacular methods of construction, and gathering all the necessary material for ‘ocak’. Wood, metal and ceramic workshops will be available use within the duration of the Visiting School.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Aeginetan Chytra
Chytra is a type of cooking-pot with a rounded body and handles on each side. It was used for heating water or soup on the fire, especially in the early Aegean civilization of Ancient Greece.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey

Ancient Ruins of Stratonikeia
Western Anatolian region, where Sirince Visiting School will take place, represents a juxtaposition of continuity and discontinuity. The region is the perfect playground to observe both the evolution and uninterruptedness of architectural forms. To inquire and experiment on these forms, we will start off in the first part, by site trips to ancient and modern sites in the near vicinity, including Stratonikeia, where ancient ruins and Ottoman mansions laying together strikingly.

To apply, please check the link in the bio.

Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove | August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Sirince, Turkey

Sirince Visiting School is a centre of research and experimentation on Archaic and Anatolian Heritage of Western Aegean of Turkey.

Located in the campus, our aim is to inquire distinct forms of architecture that have been proliferated around rituals and mythologies, and searching the exploratory and contemporary ways of adapting these architectural features into today’s context.

This year, we will be focusing on fire as a tool and its important place within these ancient rituals and Aegean customs. ‘Ocak’ is the place where a fire is lit and used for purposes such as heating, cooking, and gathering. We will investigate the forms of fire from Ancient Greek rituals to stone stoves used in Anatolian towns for cooking and communal gatherings.

To apply, please check the link in the bio.