Vedat Dalokay

Vedat Dalokay
Mayor of Ankara
In office 10 December 1973 – 12 December 1977
Preceded by	Ekrem Barlas
Succeeded by	Ali Dinçer
Personal details
Born	10 November 1927 Elazığ, Turkey
Died	21 March 1991(1991-03-21) (aged 63) Kırıkkale, Turkey
Political party	Republican People's Party
Alma mater	Istanbul Technical University
Occupation	Architect, politician

Vedat Ali Dalokay (November 10, 1927 – March 21, 1991) was a renowned Turkish architect and a former mayor of Ankara.

Early life

He was born in Elazığ, Turkey in 1927 to İbrahim Bey from Pertek. He completed his elementary and secondary education in the same city. Then he left for Istanbul for a university degree and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University in 1949. Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

Career

Faisal Masjid in Islamabad, Pakistan was designed by Vedat Dalokay

Along with numerous national award-winning projects in Turkey, Dalokay has been awarded internationally for the Islamic Development Bank (1981) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and perhaps his most famous project, the Faisal Mosque (1969) in Islamabad, Pakistan.

His design for the Kocatepe Mosque in the Turkish capital, Ankara was selected in the architectural competition but, as a result of controversial criticism, was not built. Later, a modified design was used as a basis for the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.

In 1973, he was elected the Mayor of Ankara from the CHP. Dalokay had served until the 1977 local elections, when another CHP member, Ali Dinçer was elected to replace him.

Death

Vedat Dalokay died in a traffic accident on March 21, 1991, in which his wife Ayça (age 44) and son Barış (age 17) were also killed.

See also

• List of mayors of Ankara
• List of Turkish architects

Sources

• Naz, Neelum. METU JFA 2005/2 (22:2) - Contribution of Turkish Architects to the National Architecture of Pakistan: Vedat Dalokay
• Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı - The Kocatepe Mosque Complex 1967-1987, Ankara
• Drawings and model photos of Vedat Dalokay's unbuilt mosque design for the Kocatepe Mosque
• Animation of Vedat Dalokay's unbuilt mosque design for the Kocatepe Mosque
• As, Imdat, "Vedat Dalokay's Unbuilt Project: A Lost Opportunity," in "The Digital Mosque: A New Paradigm in Mosque Design" Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Volume 60, Issue 1, 2006, pp.54-66
• As, Imdat "The Kocatepe Mosque Experience, " in Emergent Design: Rethinking Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Light of Digital Technology, S.M.Arch.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2002. pp.24-46

External links

• Vedat Dalokay in the German National Library catalogue