Özet:

Republic modernization, as a representation of a modern and national state system, forms the ideological basis of the reconstruction process determined by the internal components of Anatolia, social structure, topographic features and most importantly temporal components. In this context, these practices, which come into existence with different meanings and reveal their own modernity that they blend with their localities, have witnessed the history of modern architecture and planning while telling the evolution of the Republican ideology in peripheral cities following the center city with a limited content and in successive times. Today, it is possible to understand the center city or to perform a reverse reading in terms of its temporal consecutives looking at the periphery of Anatolia. For these reasons, the aim of the study is to reveal its contradictions, complexities, unknowns and the locally focused modernization experience in the periphery and to contribute to the history of modern architecture apart from the center-oriented architectural writing that includes homogeneous, measurable, generalizable assumptions. Giresun, located in the periphery of Anatolia, was placed at the center of the study, and the public buildings and urban arrangements built between the years of 1930-1980 were evaluated in the axis of the center-periphery paradigm as the practices of the Republic modernization. In this context, the buildings in the study, which focuses on the buildings that still exist in the city, are grouped in relation to three concepts identified as “ideology”, “ideal” and “development” and the similar or different aspects of each group are examined in the context of periodic developments. Thus, the intervention of the center to the periphery and the local expansions of the modernization observed in peripheral cities are discussed by focusing on Giresun and this city and its buildings that could not find a place in researches of modern architectural history have been brought to the literature.

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