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cultural construction of the white myth in the mediterranean

Deniz Güner This study, which aims to examine how “white” is integrated with the Mediterranean image, first looks at how the Mediterranean basin, which has hosted different civilizations and cultures for thousands of years, began to be imagined around an invented monolithic “Mediterranean” image. Then, it focuses on how architectural discourses glorified white from within the polychromatic world as the constitutional element of modern architecture since the first quarter of the 20th century. It is revealed how the semantic depth of white in the pre-modern world was emptied by the architects through the discourse of vernacular architecture. Then, how the meaning of white was filled with modernist ideology by these architects was investigated. In line with this goal, it goes on to follow the traces of how European architects who visited the Mediterranean geography several times constitute vernacular architectures as the origin of modern architecture through their different Mediterranean imaginations and receptions. The whitewash and cubic plain forms of vernacular architectures were directly influential in the formation of this association.

why the exhibition spaces are whitewashed?

Pınar Kılıç This paper stems from a question that the author has been asking herself for a while. Inspired by this question, it aims to trace how the exhibition spaces’ white walls had emerged and where they have reached. With this aim, this study presents changes in the exhibition spaces’ design throughout their history. It starts from the cabinet of curiosities, and arrives to the first exhibition spaces in the 18th century, and by following their transformation in the 19th century it reaches the white cubes in the 20th century. Finally, it ends with today’s exhibition spaces under the restrictive climate of the pandemic. analogies in acoustics [white noise] Onurcan Çakır