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The Balyans: Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive
By Buke Uras
Korpus, 2021
352 pp.
Hardcover, $150

Buke Uras drew on many sources in his 2021 publication, The Balyans: Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive.

Armenian documents of the 19th and 20th centuries were translated; archives of cemeteries and churches were copied; 155 paintings were featured, 98 of which are from the Alexander Tamanyan National Museum-Institute of Architecture of Armenia, the remaining 57 are from individual collections, AGBU Nubarian Library in Paris,  various Armenian, Turkish, American and European museums and state or other institutions.

Uras, an architect and writer, was born in Istanbul in 1976.

He studied architecture in Rome, worked in New York, then returned to Turkey and opened his own office and taught at Istanbul’s Bahcesehir University. He has contributed to various newspapers and periodicals and currently lives in Paris.

The initiator and sponsor of this work is the HAYDJ