Bathhouses, Istanbul, Turkey (18th Century)*

Artist/Designer: Turkish

Project Location: İstanbul, Turkey

Figure 1: Eighteenth-century Cagaloglu baths, Istanbul (Image published in 2003) ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 2: The natural thermal springs, central
hot pools have been replaced by the platforms and the cold plunge pool. The exterior of the city’s oldest bathhouse, the
sixteenth-century Király, embodies an East-West hybrid: a
brick structure with mosquelike cupolas abuts a green
neoclassical building with columns embedded on the facade. (Budapest) ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 3 ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 4 ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 5: From its
white exterior the Stadt Amalienbad looks like a hospital,
except for the scantily clad statues of bathers above the entrance. Built in 1926, the recently restored city bath is
decorated with geometric-patterned tile work and skylights in blues, greens, yellow, and maroon. The soaring pool hall has two upper levels lined with wooden doors and a magnificent curved glass roof with square panes that opens up. ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 6 ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 7 ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Figure 8 ( Source | Accessed : April 7, 2020 | Photographer: Unknown )

Style/Period(s):
No Style/Period Assigned.

Primary Material(s):
Stone

Function(s):
No Function Assigned.

Related Website(s):

The Architecture of Intimacy | Accessed : April 7, 2020

NYC Contemporary Turkish Russian Public Bath | Accessed : April 15, 2020

Turkish Bath Wikipedia | Accessed : April 15, 2020

Turkish Travel Blog | Accessed : December 3, 2020

BBC Travel Video | Accessed : December 3, 2020

Significant Date(s):
18th Century

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:

Allsop, Robert Owen (1890), The Turkish bath: its design and construction, Spon (Deals only with the Victorian Turkish bath)

Blake, Stephen P. (2011). "Hamams in Mughal India and Safavid Iran: Climate and Culture in Two Early Modern Islamic Empires". In Ergin, Nina (ed.). Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History, and Imagination. Peeters. pp. 257–266.

Cosgrove, J. J. (2001) [1913], Design of the Turkish bath, Books for Business

Gazali, Münif Fehim (2001), Book of Shehzade, Dönence

M. Bloom, Jonathan; S. Blair, Sheila, eds. (2009). "Bath". The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press.

Richard Boggs, Hammaming in the Sham: A Journey Through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond, 2012

Shifrin, Malcolm (2015), Victorian Turkish baths, Swindon: Historic England,

Sibley, Magda. "The Historic Hammams of Damascus and Fez: Lessons of Sustainability and Future Developments". The 23rd Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture.

Staats, Valerie (1994). "Ritual, Strategy, or Convention: Social Meanings in the Traditional Women's Baths in Morocco". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 14 (3): 1–18.

Toledano, Ehud R. (2003), State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Cambridge University Press

Yilmazkaya, Orhan; Deniz, Ogurlu (2005), A light onto a tradition and culture: Turkish baths: a guide to the historic Turkish baths of Istanbul (2 ed.), Çitlembik

Building Address: Multiple locations in Istanbul, Turkey

Significant Dates: Images published in 2003

Supporting Staff/ Designers:

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