Leman Tomsu
Born1913
Died1988
NationalityTurkish
OccupationArchitect

Leman Cevat Tomsu (1913–1988) was a Turkish architect. Together with Münevver Belen, she was one of the first Turkish women to qualify as an architect when she graduated in 1934 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul.[1] She was also the first women to teach architecture in Turkey. Later she became a professor at Istanbul Technical University.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Tomsu designed the Kayseri Theatre (Public House) after winning an architectural competition in 1937.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Women architects / Üstün Alsaç". Architecture Platform. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Ela Çil (2000). Invented Nations/invented Traditions: Identity and Space. Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California at Berkeley. p. 117. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Sibel Bozdogan (1 January 2001). Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic. University of Washington Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-295-98152-9. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Afife Batur (2005). A Concise History: Architecture in Turkey During the 20th Century. Chamber of Architects of Turkey. p. 27. ISBN 978-975-395-901-8. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Suad Joseph; Afsaneh Najmabadi (2003). Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Economics, education, mobility and space. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-12820-0.
  6. ↑ Leman Cevat Tomsu: Türk Mimarlığında Bir Öncü, 1913-1988. mimarlikdergisi.com. 2013. ISBN 9786050104493. Retrieved 19 October 2015. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ "LEMAN CEVAT TOMSU: TÜRK MİMARLIĞINDA BİR ÖNCÜ, 1913 - 1988" (PDF). Turkish. md1927.org.tr. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  8. ↑ Erkarslan, Özlem Erdoğdu (2007). "Turkish Women Architects in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era, 1908–1950" (PDF). Women's History Review. 16 (4): 555–575. doi:10.1080/09612020701445966. hdl:11147/2057. S2CID 143497575.
  9. ↑ Eldek Güner, Hikmet (27 November 2018). "Evaluation of a Modernist Approach through Buildings in Kayseri, Turkey". Periodica Polytechnica Architecture. 49 (2): 150. doi:10.3311/PPar.12643. S2CID 239816469.


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