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Mimar Sinan

c. 1489–1588 · Ottoman chief imperial architect · Ottoman Empire

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Mimar Sinan veya Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ'nın bilinen, eserlerinde kullandığı; günümüze kadar gelmiş kişisel imzası.
Mimar Sinan · Licence: Public domain · Source

Bio

Ottoman chief architect who developed a highly influential language of centralized domed architecture.

Key works

  • Süleymaniye Mosque
  • Selimiye Mosque

THE RETHINK

Mimar Sinan helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Mimar Sinan changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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