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In the last three decades a fair amount of scholarly research on the architects and master builders of the Ottoman period has been published, but unfortunately it has been forced into the mold of "national" boundaries as they are perceived today, and this has played havoc with the reality of the fundamentally homogeneous Ottoman urban culture, multiethnic though it may have been. In addition, Ottoman registers, statements by the architects themselves, and the structure of the corporations, however meticulously analyzed, throw litde or no light on how Ottoman designers and builders worked and conceived their work. As a result the monographic and certainly valuable scholarship that has developed in various countries on the Ottomans needs interpretation, a change of emphasis, and ultimately confrontation with the structural and linguistic analysis of the architectural works themselves. In Ottoman urban culture two distinct crafts-that of the architect 1 and that ofthe master builder (maistores in Macedonia and Epirus, kalfa in Anatolia and sometimes in Bulgaria)-shared the responsibilities for the design and construction of all kinds of structures. Of the two, the architect was apt to be the more cultured and better integrated into official institutions; the master builder belonged to a
Muqarnas Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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