| dc.description.abstract | Ruin, which means old building or ruined or destroyed building or city in Arabic, and is derived from the Latin word ruere which means fall, has been addressed by many thinkers in the context of their potential to generate new meanings of nature and death in terms of sublime, aesthetics, and nostalgia. Modern ruin creates a process of suspending time, involving an active participant who, in Sotomayor's words, witnesses the change and destruction of the material, into the aging and decomposition of the building. This article focuses on the relationship between modernity and ruin and examines these relations through four concrete buildings located on the Tekirdag-Marmara Ereglisi highway, which stand out with their modernist languages and have managed to survive today: Basak Sigorta Education and Summer Resort, Seker Kamp Summer Resort, Gunes Sigorta Education and Summer Resort, and Bagkur Summer Resort that were built in the 1960s and 1980s. These buildings used by insurance employees in the summer gain importance in Tekirdag's several modern architectural heritage examples and have been abandoned by the owners since the 2000s. Since then, these buildings have resisted extinction with their simple layouts, pilotis and reliefs, or survived by changing their functions and they both exist as a building and a ruin. Thus, these modernist buildings, which create the impression that they always survive, bring up the contradiction of concrete and the ruin. | en_US |
