Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Graduate Research Symposium (IGRS’22), Istanbul Technical University , İstanbul, Türkiye, 1 - 03 Haziran 2022, ss.258-264
This study conceptualizes migration as a movement that exceeds boundaries between places and times. The movement of people turns the borders into passages, transitions, and processes. Migration becomes a key that opens to other possible futures or a bridge that connects the past and the future. The uncertain and unpredictable nature of migration makes it a potential moment for social transformation. Thus, migration can be a visionary action for the possibility of another future. Migrants open the way for new experiences not only for themselves but also for others. Turkish Republic, in its first decades, had become a safe place for avant-garde architects, artists, and urban planners fled from the depressing political environment and regime pressures of that period in Europe. This paper focuses on Bruno Taut and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as exiled visionary architects. After Bruno Taut came to the Turkish Republic with the help of Martin Wagner, he helped Schütte-Lihotzky to come. The enchaining character of migration shows that migrants were hopeful and felt responsible about future. The idea of 'new beginnings' became the common ground of migrants and the atmosphere of the country. As Hannah Arendt argues, migrant individuals should involve themselves in the world by telling their personal or collective stories; exiled architects had involved themselves in the world through their designs and revealed the potential of transformation through their design activities. In this context, migrant architects had the opportunity to continue modernist visions, which was weakened in their countries due to the political environment.