Vedat Dalokay
Vedat Dalokay (born November 10, 1927 in Elazığ ; † March 21, 1991 in Kırıkkale ) was a Turkish politician and architect. From 1973 to 1977 he was mayor of the Turkish capital Ankara and a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP).
Dalokay's best-known buildings are Islamic sacred buildings, such as the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad , designed in the 1970s and opened in 1984 , which is considered one of the most modern and largest mosques in the world, and the later abandoned first plan for the Kocatepe Mosque , the largest Ankara mosque.
His story, influenced by his own childhood, Sister Schako and Kolo, the goat: a childhood in Turkey was translated into German in 1998 and received a positive response from the critics.
He was buried in the Cebeci Municipal Cemetery in Ankara.
Works
"Kolo", Istanbul 1998, ISBN 975-310-103-1 , German: "Sister Schako and Kolo, the goat: a childhood in Turkey", Weinheim 1998, ISBN 3-407-79757-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Vedat Dalokay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Neelum Naz: CONTRIBUTION OF TURKISH ARCHITECTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF PAKISTAN: VEDAT DALOKAY . in: METU Journal of Faculty of Architecture (JFA). Ankara (22: 2) 2005/2. (PDF file; 886 kB)
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| SURNAME | Dalokay, Vedat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish politician and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elazığ |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1991 |
| Place of death | Kırıkkale |