Doğan Kuban (10 April 1926 – 22 September 2021) was a Turkish

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Biography

Kuban was born in Paris to a

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family. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from

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(ITU). Shortly thereafter he started his academic career. In the 1960s and 1970s he spent time as a research fellow at the

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Research Library with a

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from

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. He became a professor in 1965, and he retıred recently. Among his other work, he aided Professor Cecil L. Striker, of the University of Pennsylvania, in his scholarly restoration of the

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. Kuban's urban history of Istanbul—one of the more complete diachronic histories of the city—is available in English as ''Istanbul: An Urban History. Byzantion, Constantinopolis, Istanbul'' (Istanbul, 1996). He died on 22 September 2021 at the age of 95.

References

Bibliography

* ''Mimarlık Kavramları'' (1998) * ''İstanbul Yazıları'' (1998) * ''Sinan: an Architectural Genius'' (1999); text by Doğan Kuban, photographs by

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* ''İstanbul Bir Kent Tarihi'' (2000) * ''Tarihi Çevre Korumanın Mimarlık Boyutu'' (2000) * ''Türkiye'de Kentsel Koruma'' (2001)

External links

* Biyografi.net
''Biography of Doğan Kuban''
* Ykykultur.com.tr
''Biography of Doğan Kuban''
1926 births 2021 deaths Writers from Paris Harvard University people Recipients of TÜBİTAK Service Award Turkish writers {{turkey-architect-stub