Vedat Dalokay
Vedat Ali Dalokay (10 November 1927 – 21 March 1991) was a Turkish architect and a former mayor of Ankara. He is best known for being the designer of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.
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Vedat Dalokay
- Name
- Vedat Dalokay
- Birth Name
- Vedat Ali Dalokay
- Born
- 10 November 1927
- Birthplace
- Elazığ, Turkey
- Died
- 21 March 1991
- Place of death
- Kırıkkale, Turkey
- Education
- Istanbul Technical University
- Occupation
- Architect
- Nationality
- Turkey
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• Name — Vedat Dalokay • Office — Mayor of Ankara • Term Start — 10 December 1973 • Term End — 12 December 1977 • Predecessor — Ekrem Barlas • Successor — Ali Dinçer • Birth Name — Vedat Ali Dalokay • Born — 10 November 1927 • Birthplace — Elazığ, Turkey • Died — 21 March 1991 • Place of death — Kırıkkale, Turkey • Party — Republican People's Party Workers' Party Unity Party Socialist Workers' Party Party of the Socialist Revolution Populist Party Party of Social Democracy Social Democratic Populist Party People's Labour Party • Education — Istanbul Technical University • Occupation — Architect
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Vedat Dalokay appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as an architect and writer (10 November 1927 – 21 March 1991). Vedat Dalokay was born in Elazığ (10 November 1927) and died in Kırıkkale (21 March 1991).
Early life and education
Early life and education
• Illustration — Faisal Masjid in Islamabad, Pakistan Dalokay was born in Elazığ in 1927 to İbrahim Bey and Emine Hanım, in an Alevi Kurdish family who had relocated from Pertek. He completed his elementary and secondary education in Elazığ. He left for Istanbul for higher education, where he attended and graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1949. His lecturers were Clemens Holzmeister and Paul Bonatz. Following his graduation in 1949, he entered the Ministry of Works and the Post and Telecommunications Department. In 1950, he settled in Paris to begin postgraduate studies at the City Planning Department of Sorbonne University in Paris, France, but did not graduate.
Career
Career
In the 1973 Turkish local elections, he was elected mayor of Ankara from the Republican People's Party (CHP). In 1975, Dalokay requested assistance from the Soviet Union to build a public transportation system and affordable housing in Ankara. In 1977 Dalokay and other CHP mayors, including İstanbul mayor Ahmet İsvan and İzmit mayor Erol Köse issued a declaration on social municipalism. Dalokay served as mayor of Ankara until the 1977 Turkish local elections and was replaced by another CHP member, Ali Dinçer, in the post.
Death
Death
Vedat Dalokay passed away along with his wife Ayçe Dalokay (aged 64) in a traffic accident near Kırıkkale on 21 March 1991. His son Barış Dalokay (aged 17), who was injured in the accident, also died on 27 March 1991.
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Life and career
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1927
Vedat Dalokay was born in 1927.
1991
Vedat Dalokay died at Kırıkkale.
Awards and work
Along with numerous national award-winning projects in Turkey, Dalokay has been awarded internationally for the Islamic Development Bank (1981) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His design for the Kocatepe Mosque in the Turkish capital, Ankara was selected in the architectural competition in 1957 but, as a result of criticism, was not built. Later, a modified design was used as a basis for the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. In Pakistan, he was also the architect of two not realized buildings, then of the constricted monument Summit Minar, Lahore and is considered a major Turkish influence in Pakistani architecture.
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- 1.Vedat Dalokay.
- 2.An Alevi Kurd built the famous mosque in Pakistan.
- 3.Naz, Neelum. Contribution of Turkish Architects to the National Architecture of Pakistan. 53–54. 2005.
- 4.Hirst, Samuel J. A Turkish Mayor Goes to Moscow: Vedat Dalokay and Development Politics in the 1970s. Journal of Contemporary History. 58. 4. 739–758. 2023. 0022-0094.
- 5.Sakarya, İpek. Türkiye'de Toplumcu Belediyecilik Hareketi Ekseninde Çanakkale'de Yerel Siyaset (1968-1980). Çanakkale Araştırmaları Türk Yıllığı. 14. 21. 139. Fall 2016. 10.17518/caty.17381.
- 6.The Kocatepe Mosque Complex. Diyanet.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Drawings and model photos of Vedat Dalokay's unbuilt mosque design for the Kocatepe Mosque
- Animation of Vedat Dalokay's unbuilt mosque design for the Kocatepe Mosque
- [http://library.mit.edu/item/001115416 As, Imdat "The Kocatepe Mosque Experience, " in Emergent Design: Rethinking Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Light of Digital Technology, S.M.Arch.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2002. pp.24-46]
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Vedat Dalokay is recorded as politician, architect and writer.
Islamic Summit Minar
1974
Faisal Mosque
1986
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