Doğan Kuban (10 April 1926 – 22 September 2021) was a Turkish
architectural historian.
Biography
Kuban was born in Paris.
He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from
Istanbul Technical University
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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
Dumbarton Oaks
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Research Library with a
scholarship
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from
Harvard University
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. He became a professor in 1965, and he retired recently. Among his other work, he aided Professor Cecil L. Striker, of the
University of Pennsylvania
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, in his scholarly restoration of the
Kalenderhane Mosque in
Istanbul
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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.
See also
*
List of Turkish architects
*
Ottoman architecture
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References
Bibliography
* ''Mimarlık Kavramları'' (1998)
* ''İstanbul Yazıları'' (1998)
* ''Sinan: an Architectural Genius'' (1999); text by Doğan Kuban, photographs by
Ahmet Ertuğ
* ''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
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