Abstract:

The city of Usak has been a central location as an important settlement in the historical process. This central location has brought into geographical and cultural prominence to the city of Usak. Usak houses, located in the city center of Usak, reflecting the traditional settlement texture of the city and being the living document of the city history, are the architectural cultural heritage. These houses, which have an important place in shaping the urban identity, are considered as civil architecture structures that reflect the geography it locates with design and material. In this context, this study, which can be evaluated in the garb of searching, documenting and reinterpreting in terms of art of the historical houses as the source of inspiration that are one of the important areas that constitutes the historical and cultural identity of Uşak city, draws attention in the original individual applications of Muna Silav's watercolor works and Naile Salman Cevik's exlibris in terms of space-memory-culture and belonging concept based on the concepts of traditional urban texture, social structure, lifestyle sustainability.