This article examines the Sakarya Government House, a pioneering example of postwar modernism in T & uuml;rkiye, through its construction, structural strengthening, and demolition. The building exemplifies the adoption of the International Style in Anatolia as a spatial instrument of modernization and state representation during T & uuml;rkiye's integration into the postwar international order. The article analyses the trajectory of the Sakarya Government House through three critical moments of rupture in the city's planning history. The first rupture examines the transition from the official architecture of the early Republican period to the International Style following the decision to construct the building, highlighting the planning tensions between local and central government. The second rupture focuses on the continuation of the building's use following its structural strengthening after the 1967 Akyaz & imath; Earthquake and points to the city's growing vulnerability as it became increasingly subject to expanded development rights and planning amendments under neoliberal policies. The final rupture concerns the demolition of the building in 2005 as a result of an urban policy decision following the 1999 Marmara Earthquake and the production of spatial fragmentation by the seismic context within the process of urban reconfiguration.
The article examines Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti as parallel yet distinct actors in mid-twentieth-century industrial urbanism, arguing that both developed integrated planning models that combined architecture, design, and emerging computational or organizational systems to construct what may be understood as 'entopian' or 'concrete utopian' settlements. It argues that both figures developed integrated planning models in which architecture, design, industrial production, and computational or organisational systems were mobilized to reconfigure the relationship between work, habitation, and community. It is structured through a comparative analysis of two primary case studies: Adriano Olivetti's industrial and civic system in Ivrea and Constantinos Doxiadis' settlement of 'Aspra Spitia' ['White Houses'], treating them as interconnected expressions of a broader Mediterranean framework of technocratic humanism, in which industrial modernization is reframed through spatial, social, and organizational design. This comparison is extended through an examination of two computational infrastructures: Olivetti's Elea 9003 computer and the Doxiadis Associates Computer Center (DACC) in Athens. These are interpreted as early experiments in computational urbanism, where information processing becomes integral to planning, analysis, and governance. The article argues that, despite differences in institutional context and methodological orientation, both approaches converge in their attempt to reconcile industrial production with human-scale urbanism.
This article examines the mature phase of Soviet industrialized housing production through the case of the Saltivs ' kyi mass housing estate, one of the largest residential districts in Ukraine. The topic has gained renewed relevance considering the destruction inflicted on Saltivka during Russia's full-scale invasion. Drawing on professional periodicals, transcripts of official meetings, and visual materials, the article analyses how the institutional rigidity of the planned economy shaped the production of residential environments in Ukrainian cities. In Saltivka the unprecedented scale of construction prompted attempts to search for new planning solutions, partially realized through the so-called focusing method. The article argues that by the 1970s-1980s the system had reached the limits of its capacity for structural change: fundamental innovation became nearly impossible, resulting in the well-known characteristics of late Soviet mass housing, including monotony and limited flexibility.
