Architectures of Asia Minor & the South Caucasus: General resources

Note: Azerbaijan’s territories include the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, and the Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority Armenian state).

"Azerbaijan," Oxford Art Online

Cornell, Svante E., Azerbaijan since independence, Routledge, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Memar magazine (published by the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan Republic)

“Nakhchyvan,” Oxford Art Online

“Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace and Maiden Tower” (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)

World Trade Press, Azerbaijan: society & culture, World Trade Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Note: Georgia’s territories include the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, and the partially recognized republics of Abkhazia, and South Ossetia.

“Georgia, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

“Georgia perspective,” Mark: Another Architecture, April / May 2012, p.62-91 (Seven articles on Georgian architects and projects)

Mepisashvili, Rusudan, Georgien Wehrbauten und Kirchen, E.A. Seemann, NA5992.9 .M4615 1987 (German language translation)

Stadler, Katharina & Data Chigholashvili (editors), City [un]archived, Onomatopee, HT145.G4 C58 2015

Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, “Tbilisi holds Georgia’s first architecture biennial since Soviet independence,” ArchDaily, April 16, 2019

“Upper Svaneti” (UNESCO)

Volner, Ian, “J. Mayer H. Architects in Georgia,” Architect, November 2013, p.148-171 (Features nine projects)

“Anatolia, ancient” and “Turkey, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Atak, Tülay, “A monument’s domain: Atatürk, Le Corbusier, and Modern masses,” Future Anterior, 2012, vol.9, #2, p.83-95

Bozdoğan, Sibel, & Esra Akcan, Modern architectures in history: Turkey, Reaktion Books, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Dimmig A., “Fabricating a new image: imperial tents in the late Ottoman Period,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2014, #2, p. 341-372 (PDF via academia.edu)

Disli, Gulsen, “Sustainability of historic building systems: Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman hospitals,” APT Bulletin, 2014, vol.45, #4, p.45-51 (via Jstor)

Girardelli, Paolo & Ezio Godoli, Italian architects and builders in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey : design across borders, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hamdeh, shirine, “Ottoman expressions of early modernity,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2004, p. 32-51 (PDF via Jstor)

Kezer, Zeynep, Building modern Turkey: state, space, and ideology in the Early Republic, University of Pittsburgh Press, NA1368 .K49 2015 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Kuban, Dogan, Ottoman architecture, Antique Collectors’ Club, NA1364 .K8313 2010

Necipoaeglu, Gülru, The age of Sinan: architectural culture in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University Press, NA1373.S5 N43 2005

Saygin Salgirli, "Architectural anatomy of an Ottoman execution," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #3, 2013, p. 301-321 (PDF via Jstor)

Steele, James, Hellenistic architecture in Asia Minor,  NA270 .S74 1992

Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian, “Preserving the medieval city of Ani: cultural heritage between contest and reconciliation,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2014, p.528-555 (via Jstor)

Wolper, Ethel Sara, Cities and saints: Sufism and the transformation of urban space in medieval Anatolia, Pennsylvania University Press, NA1363.W65 2003

Yürekli, Hülya & Ferhan Yürekli, The Turkish house: a concise re-evaluation, Yapi-Yayin, NA7394.Y87 2005

Istanbul / Constantinople / Byzantium

Dark, Ken (editor), Secular buildings and the archaeology of everyday life in the Byzantine empire, Oxbow, NA370 .S43 2004

Hoffmann, Anna & Ayðse éOncü (editors), History takes place: Istanbul: dynamics of urban change, Jovis, HT169.T92 I884x 2016

Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium, Rassegna, NA1.R37 #72 1997

Khalili, Parsa, “Campus Martius East,” Log, Spring/Summer 2014, p.100-116 (via Jstor)

Koçak, Dilek Özhan, et al., Whose city is that? culture, design, spectacle and capital in Istanbul, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Sakr, Yasir Mohammad, “Sinan’s ambivalence: the triangular design of the Süleymaniye Schools complex in Istanbul,” JSAH, 2014, vol.73, #3, p.398-416

Sarkis, Hashim (editor), A Turkish triangle: Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir at the gates of Europe, Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, HT147.T9 T87 2009​

Cornell, Svante E. & S. Freedick Starr (editors), The guns of August 2008: Russia’s war in Georgia, Routledge, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

De Waal, Thomas, Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide, Oxford University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Doshdondog, Bayarsaikhan, The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335), Brill, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Geukjian, Ohannes, Ethnicity, nationalism and conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the legacy of Soviet nationalities policy, Taylor & Francis, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Hasanli, Jamil, Khrushchev’s thaw and national identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954-1959, Lexington Books, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Herzig, Edmund & Marina Kurkchiya, The Armenians: past and present in the making of national identity, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

“Armenian genocide memorial monuments,” United Armenian Council for the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide – Los Angeles

Atak, Tülay, “A monument’s domain: Atatürk, Le Corbusier, and Modern masses,” Future Anterior, 2012, vol.9, #2, p.83-95 (via Jstor)

Demchenko, Igor, “Decentralized past: heritage politics in post-Stalin Central Asia,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.65-80 (PDF via Jstor)

Mathews, Thomas F., The early churches of Constantinople: architecture and liturgy, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA5870.I7 M3

Pentcheva, Bissera V., Hagia Sophia: sound, space, and spirit in Byzantium, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA5870.A9 P46 2017

Richter, Darmon, “Georgia’s Soviet-era monuments: the towering titans of the past,” The Spaces, February 4, 2018 (Republished by CNN, https://www.cnn.com)

Yilmaz, Ahenk, “Memorialization on war-broken ground,” JSAH, September 2014, p.328-346 (via Jstor)

Demchenko, Igor, “Decentralized past: heritage politics in Post-Stalin Central Asia,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.65-80

Disli, Gulsen, “Sustainability of historic building systems: Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman hospitals,” APT Bulletin, 2014, p.45-51

Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian, “Preserving the medieval city of Ani: cultural heritage between contest and reconciliation,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2014, p.528-555 (via Jstor)

“Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots,” (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)

Kuban, Dogan, Ottoman architecture, Antique Collectors’ Club, NA1364 .K8313 2010

Mepisashvili, Rusudan, Georgien Wehrbauten und Kirchen, E.A. Seemann, NA5992.9 .M4615 1987 (German language translation)

Necipoaeglu, Gülru, The age of Sinan: architectural culture in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University Press, NA1373.S5 N43 2005

Pentcheva, Bissera V., Hagia Sophia : sound, space, and spirit in Byzantium, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA5870.A9 P46 2017

Piotrowski, Andrezej, “Heresy, hybrid buildings, and a geography of architectural traditions,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2015, p.7-19 (PDF via iaste.org)

Wolper, Ethel Sara, Cities and saints: Sufism and the transformation of urban space in medieval Anatolia, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1363 .W65 2003

Castillo, Greg, “Soviet Orientalism: Socialist Realism and built tradition, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 1997, p.33-47 (via Jstor)

Demchenko, Igor, “Decentralized past: heritage politics in post-Stalin Central Asia,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.65-80 (PDF via Jstor)

“Georgia perspective,” Mark: Another Architecture, April / May 2012, p.62-91 (Seven articles on Georgian architects and projects)

Judy, Mary Kay, “The village of Chazhashi: Georgian Svannish vernacular architecture,” APT Bulletin, 2000, vol.31, #2/3, p.46-54 (via Jstor)

Maparishvili, Nana, “Traditional homes of Georgia: the reason to be proud,” Folklife Magazine, 24 February 2015 (Published by the Smithsonian Institution)  

Oliver, Paul (editor), Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2 (See: “Asia Minor and Caucasus, South,” p.1461-1482)

Piotrowski, Andrzej, “Heresy, hybrid buildings, and a geography of architectural traditions,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2015, p.7-19 (via Jstor)

Benetton, Luciano, et al., Azerbaijan : the colors of wind and fire : contemporary artists from Azerbijan, Fabrica, ND992.7 .A94 2013

Bossan, Enrico (editor), Armenia, never-never land : contemporary artists from Armenia, Fabrica, N7292.6 .A75 2014

Bossan, Enrico (editor), Georgia : land of men and heroes : contemporary artists from Georgia, Fabrica, N7292.9 .G46 2015

Eastmond, Antony, Art and identity in thirteenth-century Byzantium : Hagia Sophia and the empire of Trebizond, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

Faroghi, Suraiya, A cultural history of the Ottomans : the imperial elite and its artefacts, I. B. Tauris & Company, 2016

Necipoaeglu, Gulru,  The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library, NA2706.A783 N43 1995

Maranci, Christina, The art of Armenia : an introduction, Oxford University Press, N7274 .M37 2018

Rizvi, Kishwar (editor), Affect, emotion, and subjectivity in early modern Muslim Empires : new studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal art and culture, Brill, 2018 (via Proquest Ebook Central)