^#smrgSAHAF Beyond Shelter: Anatolian Indigenous Buildings CİLTLİ -

Beyond Shelter presents visual records of various houses and settlernents in the Aegean, Mediterranean, Central, Eastern, and Black Sea regions of Anatolia. İt explains the languages of the building paİterns found, and also displays the ingenuity of the indigenous builders. While focusing on the relationships between climate, locality, materials and skills, Kemal Aran shows the reader the differentiation of Anatolia's characteristic patterns. Dramatic expressions in the unity of details, textures, materials and colors also produce building variations that stern frorn the builders' initiative. The buildings depicted are unique exarnples that satisfy both the physical needs and the intellectual rnoİives of people.

As shown in Beyond Shelter, Ianguages of building patterns establish cornrnunal identity inctuding individual variety.

Kemal Aran is an archilect who has studied under Louis I. Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has taught architectural education at the Royal Danish Acaderny of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara.