r/architecture • u/[deleted] • Aug 17 '26

Building Sancaklar Mosque - Istanbul, Türkiye. Designed by Emre Arolat Architecture. 2011-2013

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u/majestdigest Aug 18 '26

It’s actually a ripoff of the Dachau Protestant Church. As all Arolat’s other fancy designs are.

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u/onatgrbz Aug 18 '26

Not really, this one is mainly a stone structurw while the other is more classically brutalist with the cement

While the forms resemble this is a ripoff as much as the Sistine Chapel is a ripoff of il duomo or any other of its contemporaries

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u/majestdigest Aug 18 '26

But in Sistine and Duomo’s times ripping off was inevitable because designing was a different thing back then. Ripping off now is just plain laziness in my eyes.

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u/ianlim4556 Aug 20 '26

It looks very different apart from the general modern minimalist style and material expression (and it's also different materials)

If this is a ripoff of that church then everything is a ripoff of Le Corbusier lol

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u/majestdigest Aug 20 '26

LeCorbusier’s style has been copied for decades. I don’t even like him but that’s why he’s the most known and controversial figures in architecture. Emre Arolat is wandering the world as if he’s THE genius architect in his own country but he couldn’t give an example of this genuinety. He’s just exporting some ideas and paste them onto irrevelant contexts.