This book which comes out of the “Transformation of Places of Production” seminar organized by Aga Khan Award for Architecture in cooperation with Istanbul Bilgi University in January 2009, is a first publication on the topic of industrial facilities in the Muslim World. Most chapters generously illustrated, the book addresses diverse developments affecting industrial architecture both chronologically and geographically and examines them within their technological, socio-economic, as well as urban contexts._x000D_
Accompanying DVD contains English language and Turkish language versions of the short documentary film hosted by architect Süha Özkan, entitled: My workplace: a documentary film on contemporary industrial architecture in Turkey.

Preface
Farrokh Derakhshani

Introduction:
Exploring industrial architecture in the Islamic world
Mohammad al-Asad

I. Chronological / geographic overviews

Industrial architecture and nation-building in Turkey: A historical overview
Sibel Bozdogan

Industrial architecture in Egypt from Muhammad ‘Ali to Sadat: A field survey
Ralph Bodenstein

The evolution of industrial architecture in Iran
Faryar Javaherian

An overview of the development of industrial architecture in Malaysia
Casey Tan Kok Chaon

II. Contemporary designs

The factory factor: Two industrial projects from Syria
Sinan Hassan

Projects by Foster + Partners
David Nelson

III. Agro-industrial projects and socio-economic development

IPS Agro: Industrial projects in the coastal regions of Kenya
Jim Garnett

Working grounds: Four agro-industrial projects
Hashim Sarkis

IV. The adaptive reuse of industrial facilities
Adaptive reuse of industrial buildings at Bahçeşehir University
Ahmet Eyüce

Santralistanbul: Architectural problematics
İhsan Bilgin

V. Contexts and future visions

Transformation of workplaces in Istanbul: Some macro urban form suggestions
Süha Özkan

Places of production: An engineer’s perspective
Hanif Kara

Afterword
Mohsen Mostafavi

VI. Impressions: A photo essay on industrial architecture in Turkey
Cemal Emden

List of authors in this monograph and seminar participants

Credits and acknowledgements for the My Workplace film

Illustration credits

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