A critical vocabulary for future architectural criticism based on the peripheral unfocused vision of Sancaklar Mosque, Istanbul

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dc.contributor.authorGur, Senguel Oymen
dc.contributor.authorErkartal, Pinar Oktem
dc.contributor.authorOzturk, Serap Durmus
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-31T15:08:52Z
dc.date.available2026-01-31T15:08:52Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis article serves as a platform to invent critical vocabulary for future architectural criticisms, using the Sancaklar Mosque in Istanbul as a compelling case study. The main argument of the article is to show how architects need to understand minimalism in detail. It challenges the use of Minimalism drawing inspiration from Christopher Alexander's paradigms of 'Wholeness'. The study investigates the mosque from various viewpoints, such as ontology, topography, anchoring and emplacement, body and entanglement, temporality and spatiality of time, the cosmogony of light and earth, embodiment, motility, atmosphere, and emotions. The synergistic relationality interprets wholes as dynamic, generative fields sustained by intensive parts that integrally belong to and support the whole. The authors delineate a particular approach to research and criticism based on a 'peripheral unfocused' vision suggested by Ehrenzweig. The study's underlying seminal phenomenological concepts include 'erlebnis,' lifeworld, and 'Dasein.' Ultimately, it argues that Minimalism alone is not a sufficient tool for modern architectural aesthetics to render a building effective, but it sustains the synergistic relationality within the whole. It deals with its architecture's sensory, semantic, and corporeal metaphorical qualities and discusses the mosque in the general context of phenomenology. In conclusion this article seeks the inner language of Sancaklar Mosque, as Pallasmaa calls it, and finds it in the building's integration with nature, space, people and even the philosophy of its function.
dc.identifier.doi10.14744/megaron.2025.34576
dc.identifier.endpage146
dc.identifier.issn1309-6915
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage133
dc.identifier.trdizinid1356960
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org./10.14744/megaron.2025.34576
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1356960
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/10776
dc.identifier.volume20
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001528670400001
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherYildiz Technical Univ, Fac Architecture
dc.relation.ispartofMegaron
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260128
dc.subjectArchitectural criticism
dc.subjecthaptic experiences
dc.subjectperipheral unfocused vision
dc.subjectSancaklar Mosque
dc.subjectwholeness
dc.titleA critical vocabulary for future architectural criticism based on the peripheral unfocused vision of Sancaklar Mosque, Istanbul
dc.typeArticle

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