Özet:

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's novel "Ankara" is a source in terms of telling the Republican Ankara. Because the novels carry traces of the time they tell. The author’s observations, memories and forecasts shaped this workplace from his own discipline, helping him to be seen from an architectural perspective while reflects the conditions of that day with the descriptions of the architectural spaces of the time. In this context, the work presents the social, political and economic developments of the period with a view from the architectural field. In Ankara, Republic Period Architecture began with the election of Ankara as the capital, it can be said that the architectural detections of the period were addressed in a very broad scale from the material scale to the city scale. An important part of the process that begins with urban planning and public construction is also housing. The purpose of this study is to acquire information about city and period architecture by applying to a literary source for the understanding of the housing architecture of the period. The simultaneous responses of the periods in the novel in the history of writing have been confirmed through the data in the literature. Thus, "roman", which is a "curiosity" text, has gained the characteristic of being a source in the historical sense.