The Age of Sinan by Gulr Necipo?lu - 9781861892539

The Age of SinanArchitectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire\nAuthor(s): Gulr Necipo?lu\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Reaktion Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Reaktion Books\nISBN-13: 9781861892539, 978-1861892539\nSynopsis\nMimar Koca Sinan (c. [tel], the Great Architect Sinan, was appointed chief royal architect to the Ottoman court by Sultan Suleyman I in 1539. During his fifty-year career he designed and constructed hundreds of buildings including mosques, palaces, harems, chapels, tombs, schools, almshouses, madrassahs, caravanserais, granaries, fountains, aqueducts and hospitals. His distinctive architectural idiom also left its imprint over the terrains of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the Tigris, and he became the most celebrated of all Ottoman architects, particularly renowned for his influence on the cityscape of Istanbul.\nSinan's most influential buildings were his mosque complexes, where his inventive experimentation with light-filled centralized domes, ofte.