About Ankara Republican Architecture
Ankara's ministries quarter was drawn as a capital before it was a city. Hermann Jansen set the plan; Clemens Holzmeister filled it with the Ministry of National Defence, the General Staff Building, the Court of Cassation, the Central Bank, Ziraat Bank and the Grand National Assembly.
Everything is faced in local andesite, so the walls run lilac, pink and dusty rose while grey ashlar carries the plinths, porticoes and dressings. Roman-cut inscriptions, square piers in strict bays and one long axis to the Güven Monument keep the register blunt, symmetric and deliberately slow.
- Origin
- Ankara, Turkey — Bakanlıklar, the Ministries Quarter along the Atatürk Boulevard axis
- Era
- 1900–1950 (Ankara government quarter, roughly 1927–1940)
- Key figures
- Clemens Holzmeister · Hermann Jansen · Anton Hanak · Ernst Egli · Bruno Taut
- Movements
- First National Architecture Movement · Stripped modernism · Republican state architecture
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