Ulya Vogt-Göknil

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Ulya Vogt-Göknil (born January 4, 1921 in Istanbul ; died July 9, 2014 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architectural historian and author of Turkish origin who researched and published primarily on Islamic architecture (building art).

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Ulya Göknil was the daughter of Bedri N. Göknil (1896-1958). She grew up in Istanbul, where she studied architecture at the Academy of Arts from 1940 to 1945. She was particularly interested in the theory and history of architecture, which was promoted by her teacher Sedat Hakki Eldem , who linked the Ottoman-Islamic tradition with modern architectural concepts. After completing her architecture studies, she went to Switzerland. There she studied art history at the University of Zurich from 1947 to 1950 . With her doctorate in “Description of Architecture and Concept of Space” at Gotthard Jedlicka , she developed the basis for her future research on the interactions of historical influences, especially between the sacred architecture of the Orient and Occident . She founded a family with Adolf Max Vogt that resulted in two sons, settled in Zurich and lived in a house owned by Alfred Roth .

In 1958, Ulya Vogt-Göknil received great attention with her book about the Carceri representations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi . Due to their publication “Early Islamic Arched Walls. Vogt-Göknil took on its importance between antiquity and the western Middle Ages with the collaboration of Bernhard Wauthier-Wurmser »(1982) as a consultant on the project« International Competition - State Mosque Baghdad »by TEST - Alousi ( Maath Alousi , Issam El Said, Manfred Sundermann).  

In 1999/2000 Ulya Vogt-Göknil was visiting professor at the Institute for Art History at the University of Salzburg and taught on the subject of "Geometry, tectonics and light in Islamic architecture".

Fonts (selection)

Carceri (1958)
  • Description of architecture and concept of space in recent art historians . Treatise on obtaining a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich. JJ Groen & Zoon, Leiden 1951
  • Basic architectural terms and experience of the surroundings . Origo, Zurich 1951
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi "Carceri" . Origo, Zurich 1958
  • Ottoman Turkey . Photos Eduard Widmer. Hirmer, Munich 1965
  • The mosque. Basic forms of sacred architecture . Artemis, Zurich 1978
  • Early Islamic arched walls. Their importance between antiquity and the western Middle Ages . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1982
  • Sinan . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1993
  • The writing on Islamic architecture . Wasmuth, Tübingen 2007

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dedication in Giovanni Battista Piranesi «Carceri» , 1958, p. 7
  2. ^ GG: Mecca in the Maghreb. In: NZZ. April 11, 2001, accessed February 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Manfred Sundermann: Inside - Outside: A Intertwined Complement / Interior - Exterior: A Reciprocal Complement . In: Wolfgang Meisenheimer, Norbert Miller, Werner Oechslin, Bruno Reichlin, Anna Teut (eds.): Daidalos . No. 13 . Bertelsmann Zeitschriften GmbH, Berlin West 1984, p. 98-102 .
  4. ↑ Sonja Pucher: Mediation between two worlds. In: NZZ. February 3, 2001, accessed February 23, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hermann Bauer : Review of Ulya Vogt-Göknil, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, "Carceri" , in: Kunstchronik. Monthly journal for art history, museums and preservation of monuments , Vol. 12 No. 7 (1959) https://doi.org/10.11588/kc.1959.7.70024 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogt-Göknil, Ulya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2014
Place of death Zurich