Salt Research
Erdoğan Elmas Archive
İzmir Branch of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye
Salt Research, Erdoğan Elmas Archive
Salt Research, Erdoğan Elmas Archive
The archive of architect Erdoğan Elmas is now accessible at archives.saltresearch.org.
Digitized and cataloged as part of Salt Research Architecture Archive, the collection includes professional documents of Erdoğan Elmas. Having developed numerous works under the architectural office YEG together with Zafer Gülçur and Ertur Yener, Elmas’ competition projects from the 1960s to the 2000s stand out as prominent materials in the archive.
About Erdoğan Elmas
Erdoğan Elmas was born in Ankara in 1938. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1962, he collaborated with Turgut Cansever and later served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Urban Planning at ITU. He also worked as a planner and architect at the Istanbul Municipality and the Ministry of Tourism. In 1968, he began his independent architectural practice and continued his career in partnership with Zafer Gülçur and Ertur Yener from 1969 to 2005. Throughout his professional career, Elmas designed more than 130 projects. Among his realized projects are the State Investment Bank, Ministry of Public Works, General Directorate of the Cement Industry, TRT Headquarters Building, İzmir Branch of the Central Bank, and Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta.
Salt Research Architecture Archive
The archive collections at Salt Research encompass over 2,000,000 unique digitized resources on “Art,” “Architecture,” “Design,” and “City, Society, and Economy.” Comprising more than 180,000 documents, the Architecture Archive brings together sketches, drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, maps, photographs, audio recordings, and videos from the personal and professional archives of prominent figures active in 20th-century Türkiye.
Digitized and cataloged as part of Salt Research Architecture Archive, the collection includes professional documents of Erdoğan Elmas. Having developed numerous works under the architectural office YEG together with Zafer Gülçur and Ertur Yener, Elmas’ competition projects from the 1960s to the 2000s stand out as prominent materials in the archive.
About Erdoğan Elmas
Erdoğan Elmas was born in Ankara in 1938. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1962, he collaborated with Turgut Cansever and later served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Urban Planning at ITU. He also worked as a planner and architect at the Istanbul Municipality and the Ministry of Tourism. In 1968, he began his independent architectural practice and continued his career in partnership with Zafer Gülçur and Ertur Yener from 1969 to 2005. Throughout his professional career, Elmas designed more than 130 projects. Among his realized projects are the State Investment Bank, Ministry of Public Works, General Directorate of the Cement Industry, TRT Headquarters Building, İzmir Branch of the Central Bank, and Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta.
Salt Research Architecture Archive
The archive collections at Salt Research encompass over 2,000,000 unique digitized resources on “Art,” “Architecture,” “Design,” and “City, Society, and Economy.” Comprising more than 180,000 documents, the Architecture Archive brings together sketches, drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, maps, photographs, audio recordings, and videos from the personal and professional archives of prominent figures active in 20th-century Türkiye.
Salt Research Architecture Archive is supported by Kalebodur.
