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16th century was the most important century on the history of Ottoman architecture not only because it was its Golden Age of Empire economically, but also Architect Sinan, the head architect of dynasty had lived in that era. As the head architect of dynasty, Architect Sinan designed different building types on private, public and religious usage, such as bridges, aqueducts, Turkish baths, mosque complexes including darulkuttap, darulhadis, medresahs and etc. However, his name is mostly known as the architect of we...

As every living thing, cities change within years. It can be said changing is the nature of the city. In Europe, transformation of the city began to get different meanings after the Industrial Revolution. Because with the Industrial Revolution more and more people began to migrate to cities but cities didn't have enough substructure to take people in. They had to meet the requirements so they began to transform. This situation, which happened in Europe in 19th and beginning of the 20th century, began to be seen in...