1935 Yüksel Street

1935 Yüksel Street. Ankara Türkiye (mülkiyeliler)

The school building, designed by Ernst A. Egli in 1935 with the name of Mülkiye Mektebi and took the name of Siyasal Bilgiler Okulu after, is one of the main representatives of modernization efforts of the new Republic with the modern conditions provided to the students and the people graduated from the school to take part in important levels of the State besides its modern architectural language. Due to the increasing population of the School which was placed under Ankara University with the name of Faculty of Political Sciences in 1950, the Dean demanded for additional buildings in the scope of expansion and modification project in 1954. An architectural competition was opened for Library and Amphi and Enver Tokay, Ayhan Tayman and Yılmaz Sanlı, the important figures of modern movement architecture of the period, won the competition. As the modern examples of different periods, togetherness of main building and additional buildings, and being the works of important architects of two different periods put forth a valuable subject to be studied. With different designs required by the function and simple, unadorned but well-thought-of details, these additional buildings are convenient examples to examine the prevailing understanding and approach of the period at the same time. There is almost no written or visual published information about these buildings of the Enver Tokay and Ayhan Tayman who also worked together in various projects, such as Emek İş hanı. In this article, history, architectural features and the relation with Mülkiye of these buildings – Library and Amphi - designed and constructed between 1955-1967 was studied; and in this process, the original drawings and the current situation of the buildings were compared and analyzed together. In the result, it is aimed to put forward the place of these buildings in the field of modern architecture.