Reflections of the İstanbul Hilton Hotel on Mid-century Hotel Buildings in Turkey
Abstract
The 1950s indicate a period of America’s influence on the
world economy and culture with its post-war power. Mobility increased with
developing transportation networks and emerging consumer culture, so the number
and importance of hotels increased as a result of this socio-political,
economic and architectural condition of the period. In the 1950s, American
chain hotels emerged, and soon spread overseas, following the dominant
aesthetics of the country, a version of the International Style termed as
“American Modernism”. The spread of International Style through modern hotels
was most prominent in Hilton Hotels. The first modern hotel to arrive in Turkey
was the İstanbul Hilton Hotel which influenced other hotel buildings in the
1950s to follow the International Style. The Hilton Hotel was frequently
accepted as a model behind the tourism discussions and the initiatives that
followed were compared with it, although the spread of its architectural
language created a debate in architectural circles. For this reason, the focal
point of this study is the hotel buildings designed in the International Style
between 1950 and 1960, which possess architectural similarities with the Hilton
Hotel. The influence of the Hilton Hotel on other hotel buildings in the 1950s
is investigated along with the period’s tourism discussions to have a wider
perspective of the Hilton Hotel’s influence on tourism. The hotels selected for
the study are ones that carry the aesthetical principles of the Hilton Hotel,
and were built or started construction in 1950s; Büyükada Anadolu Club Hotel, Çınar Hotel, Eskişehir Porsuk Hotel, Grand
Efes Hotel, and Grand Tarabya Hotel. These examples illustrate the effects of
the Hilton Hotel on the development of modern tourism architecture.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Hande Atmaca Çetin
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This is me
0000-0003-2664-0228
Türkiye
Zeynep Tuna Ultav
0000-0003-0478-7333
Türkiye
Funda Uz
0000-0003-4299-7710
Türkiye
Publication Date
July 31, 2019
Submission Date
March 18, 2019
Acceptance Date
June 30, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Number: 12