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Building Site Manager Proposition
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Personal Details |
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Full Name
Fazil AYSU |
Place of Birth
Istanbul |
Year of Birth
1912 |
Educational Level
Academy of Fine Arts / Architect / 1936 Istanbul Boys' School / 1931 |
Academic Career
Academy of Fine Arts / Research Assistant Cagaloglu Private High School of Architecture and Engineering - Academy Associated Applied Industrial Arts High School / Departmental President Academy of Fine Arts / Research Assistant for Building and Architectural Design |
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Building Site Information
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Most Important Site
LUTFI KIRDAR CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION HALLS (SPORT and EXHIBITION PALACE)
Buildings
- Bakırkoy Girls' Institute
- Beykoz Sports Club
- Eten Towel Factory
- Fatih Karagumruk Stadium
- Galata Arsimidis Inn
- Gaziosmanpasa Migrant Houses
- Gunaydin Newspaper Buildings
- Harbiye Basak Insurance and Ziraat Bank Branch (together with Utarit Izgi and friends)
- Hurriyet Ancilliary Buildings
- Two health resort houses in Kanlıca and Gonen
- Kilyos Grand Hotel (Left unfinished after the 1960 Revolution.)
- Mimar Sinan University Restoration
- Muhsin Ertugrul Theatre
- Three Apartment Buildings in Nisantasi and Harbiye
- Philips Administrative Building - Ayazpasa
- Philips Radio Factory - Levent
- Polonezkoy Haldun Simavi House
- Taksim Tennis Club and Courts
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In addition to his profession of architecture, Architect Fazil AYSU is concerned with interior design, and during his time as a student worked on decor and furniture at Yıldız Sale Pavilion, the Yalova Hotel, and on furniture in the Ataturk Florya Pavilion. Subsequently, he has been concerned over the last 15 years with the production and sale of furniture at his interior décor shop MODERNO on Cumhuriyet Street. He has also reorganised the inner space of a number of official buildings. He has worked on the décor and furniture of American officers' messes in Turkey in the bases of Karamursel, Incirlik and Izmir.
Memoirs from Site Work
"...It was a Physical Training organisation funded by the state. Mayor Lutfi Kirdar was considering the construction of a sports building in İstanbul. However, there was no allocation for Physical Training. Moreover, municipal regulations did not allow for the construction of a sports building. The mayor envisaged a building to serve both as a place to do sport and to hold exhibitions, and to this end had a project organised by Italian architect Vietti Violi. One day, I received a phone call from him. He asked whether I had seen the project and what the costs would be. I had a look and said it could be in the region of 7-8 million lira. He thanked me. I got quite enthusiastic about the idea and asked for an appointment to see the mayor. He agreed to see me and I asked what he wanted to do. "I want to build a sports building and a building for holding exhibitions, but the project costs have turned out to be too high, so we are unable to go ahead", he said. "How much money is available?" I asked. "I have 1.5 million", he replied. In response I said, "If you let me have 2.5 million, I'll do it for you". "OK, but if you go over budget, I can't give you a penny more", he said. Sinasi Sahingiray and I made the project and we put it out to tender as a 2.5 million job. Costs for the building came to 2.5 million, 650 thousand lira. The mayor said he couldn't go to the committee to ask for 65 thousand lira. "Make the final account 2.5 million, say hi to the contractor and ask him to sue me. I'll pay him this amount in the settlement", he said. So that's how the building was made for 2.5 million. (1948-1949)"
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