Özet:

This study; after the Sümerbank Kayseri Bez and Nazilli Basma factories opened in the 1930s, when statist industrialization and the liberal economy accelerated in the 1950s, is about Aydın Textile Campus, which has been operating as a social place and industrial complex. The campus, which contains production buildings, housing and social units and examples of unique architecture suitable for post-republic ‘modern’ industrial facility and function, is important because of its influences on Aydın’s urban history and development in terms of architectural history and urban culture. In this context, in the research; the centralist identity of the campus in the province of Aydın and the importance of the buildings in the campus have been evaluated in terms of architectural history with the presence of unpublished photographs and drawings, and oral history interviews by the author. The importance has been given to the retired employees’ experiences in Aydın Textile Factory as one of the main sources of the study, contributing not only to the mass but also to the functions of the buildings and how they have been perceived and used by an employee as an institution. Thus, while the reader has been given the opportunity to learn the "life cycle" of the campus from the first source that makes possible to use the factory's documents in the form of ephemera. In addition, the history of the campus, the architectural features and functions of the buildings in the campus, and their functions in the period when they were actively used have been mentioned; in the conclusion part, an evaluation has been made regarding the contributions of the campus to the city and architectural culture on a local and regional scale since the period when it was built.

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