REFLECTIONS OF THE “NAKED BRICK STYLE” IN SELJUK ANATOLIA

Year 2017, Issue: 2, 193 - 225, 27.12.2017

A.Ömür Bakırer

Abstract

Brick was preferred as
a building material in central Anatolia  but more so in Mesopotamia and its environs
from the Neolithic period onwards, but its use both for building and for
architectural ornament was not explored until the tenth century. Although not for
certain, it is assumed that during the tenth the structural and deorative
possibilities of the material were discovered somewhere in  Turkestan, Khurasan, Ghazna or Central Iran
and the “naked brick”  or “exposed brick”
style matured. The Turks who migrated to Anatolia  during the second half of the eleventh
century transmitted this style of building to Anatolian Seljuk architecture and
employed it besides stone in a selective approach, but with a new enthusiasm
leading to endless trials and  new
creations until the early fourteenth century.

Keywords

naked brick, brick bonds, brick revetments, Seljuk, architecture

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