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"The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which are regarded as masterpieces of their period - including the Dolmabahė Palace (built between 1843 and 1856), parts of the Topkap? Palace, the ß?ra?an Palace and the Ortaky̲ Mosque. Forging a unique style based around European contemporary architecture but with distinctive Ottoman flourishes, the family is an integral part of Ottoman history. As Alyson Wharton's beautifully illustrated book reveals, the Balyan's own history, of falling in and out of favour with increasingly autocratic Sultans, serves as a record of courtly power in the Ottoman era and is uniquely intertwined with the history of Istanbul itself."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Architecture, Ottoman --- History of architecture. --- Balyan family. --- History --- Ottoman architecture

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Architecture, Medieval. --- Historic buildings. --- Architecture, Ottoman. --- Ottoman architecture --- Historic houses, etc. --- Historical buildings --- Architecture --- Buildings --- Monuments --- Historic sites --- Middle Ages

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This urban and architectural study of Aleppo, a center of early modern global trade, draws upon archival and narrative texts, architectural evidence, and contemporary theoretical discussions of the relation between imperial ideology, urban patterns and rituals, and architectural form. The first two centuries of Ottoman rule fostered tremendous urban development and reorientation through judiciously sited acts of patronage. Monumental structures endowed by Ottoman officials both introduced a new imperial architecture from Istanbul and incorporated formal elements from the local urban visual language. By viewing the urban and social contexts of these acts, tracing their evolution over two centuries, and examining their discussion in Ottoman and Arabic sources, this book proposes a new model for understanding the local reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms.

Architecture, Ottoman - Syria - Aleppo. --- Architecture, Ottoman --- Islamic architecture --- Architecture and state --- Architecture --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- History --- State and architecture --- Arab architecture --- Architecture, Arab --- Architecture, Islamic --- Architecture, Moorish --- Architecture, Muslim --- Architecture, Saracenic --- Moorish architecture --- Muslim architecture --- Saracenic architecture --- Religious architecture --- Ottoman architecture --- Aleppo (Syria) --- Aleppo --- Alep (Syria) --- Beroea (Syria) --- Chale (Syria) --- Chelbon (Syria) --- Haleb (Syria) --- Helbon (Syria) --- Halēp (Syria) --- Khalepion (Syria) --- Biblical Beroea (Syria) --- Berea (Syria) --- Madīnat Ḥalab (Syria) --- Ḥalab (Syria) --- Aram-Tsova (Syria) --- Ḥalev (Syria) --- Buildings, structures, etc.