Emin Halid Onat
Emin Halid Onat (December 20, 1908 – July 17, 1961) was a Turkish architect and former rector of Istanbul Technical University.
Emin Onat learned to experiment, interpret and search for modernism from his teacher Otto R. Salvisberg, a well-known, experienced practicing architect.
Onat's architectural talent blossomed at Zurich Technical University, where one of his fellow students was Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, who later went to become one of the best architects of his time.
He held the post for a couple of years that were marked by strenuous relations with the other members of the faculty, owing to the novel methods of teaching Onat introduced.
In 1944 Onat became the first dean of the newly established Faculty of Architecture at the Istanbul Technical University.
[1] Onat rose further into the echelons of the architectural world in 1946, when he was given an honorary membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
His return lasted only three years as on 21 October 1960 he and 147 faculty members were ousted from the university.
[1] His professional life can be divided three periods: There is a very clear functional order and careful search for monumantallity.
This courtyard bring a classical look in plans so Emin Onat used double or triple height holes and passages with a colonnade.
It is a two-storey building, built out of local masonry, It has elements that come from Anatolian architecture for example "çıkma motifi" window proportions and overhangs.
Prevatorium was a great center for members of Ministry of National Education placed in the forest.
justice Palace was functional building, court's units sorted rhythmical and connect into a large corridor.
It occurred from long rectangular form and double-height also so pure design in the facade with this feature it gains a speciality at that period's building.
In addition, there was a harmony of architectural things for instance the geometrical balance between balconies and windows.
Maybe this apartment blocks the most unknown project of Emin Onat however it was the most interesting one.He effected from Le Corbusier’s ‘Unite d’Habitation’.
It separated from period of time with located on the horizontal mass of ladder plastics and circulation corridor connecting the balconies.
The building features five storeys, concrete, reflected international style, has two blocks and is modern.
In early period of Ankara it was a modern and simple building but today it become a bazaar and lost.
It was the closest building to Onat’s teacher at Zurich ‘Otto Salvisberg’s modernist school.
