REFLECTIONS OF THE “NAKED BRICK STYLE” IN SELJUK ANATOLIA

Authors : AÖmür BAKIRER

Pages : 193-225

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Publication Date : 2017-12-27

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Brick was preferred as a building material in central Anatolia   but more so in Mesopotamia and its environs from the Neolithic period onwards, but its use both for building and for architectural ornament was not explored until the tenth century. Although not for certain, it is assumed that during the tenth the structural and deorative possibilities of the material were discovered somewhere in   Turkestan, Khurasan, Ghazna or Central Iran and the “naked brick”   or “exposed brick” style matured. The Turks who migrated to Anatolia   during the second half of the eleventh century transmitted this style of building to Anatolian Seljuk architecture and employed it besides stone in a selective approach, but with a new enthusiasm leading to endless trials and   new creations until the early fourteenth century.
Keywords : naked brick, brick bonds, brick revetments, Seljuk, architecture