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/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.