The archive containing documents related to architect Erdoğan Elmas’s design and implementation projects has been made available online at SALT Research.
SALT Research Architecture Archive has opened Erdoğan Elmas’s professional documents for digital access. Within the scope of studies carried out with the support of Kalebodur, the collection added to the archive sheds light on Elmas’s career spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s. Among the prominent documents in the archive are Elmas’s architectural competition projects carried out under YEG together with Zafer Gülçur and Ertur Yener. The collection containing Elmas’s professional documents can be accessed at archives.saltresearch.org.
SALT Research Architecture Archive
The digital collections compiled under SALT Research, containing over 2 million documents, cover the fields of “Art,” “Architecture,” “Design,” and “City, Society and Economy.” The Architecture Archive brings together 180,000 documents, including sketches, drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, maps, photographs, slides, audio recordings, and videos, from the personal and professional archives of experts who contributed to the development of architecture and design in 20th-century Turkey.
About Erdoğan Elmas
Erdoğan Elmas was born in 1938 in Ankara. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Department of Architecture in 1962. In the early years of his profession, Elmas worked with Turgut Cansever; later, he served as an assistant at the ITU Urban Planning Department and as a planner and architect at Istanbul Municipality and the Ministry of Tourism and Promotion. He started his private architectural practice in 1968 and continued it with Zafer Gülçur and Ertur Yener from 1969 to 2005. Among the projects designed by Elmas throughout his professional life are the State Investment Bank, Ministry of Public Works, General Directorate of Cement Industry, TRT General Directorate Complex, Central Bank İzmir Branch, and Süleyman Demirel University, totaling more than 130 architectural projects.
SALT Research Architecture Archive
The digital collections compiled under SALT Research, containing over 2 million documents, cover the fields of “Art,” “Architecture,” “Design,” and “City, Society and Economy.” The Architecture Archive brings together 180,000 documents, including sketches, drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, maps, photographs, slides, audio recordings, and videos, from the personal and professional archives of experts who contributed to the development of architecture and design in 20th-century Turkey.
