Baran Gülsün
Editor at YAPI Magazine
Istanbul, Türkiye
As an architecture-culture magazine being published for the last 48 years since 1973 without any interruption YAPI has a very unique place in the Turkish cultural life as one of the oldest magazine in its own field. With the variety of the subjects it covers, with the attentive texts published and the publication quality, YAPI magazine has always managed to stand different from the similar magazines. In terms of content it is considered to discuss environment, urbanisation, architectural theory and history, project implementation, technology and materials, industrial design and art issues in a wide range. The magazine believed that it was necessary to focus on all these issues. Especially considering the ethical rules of architectural profession, domination of modern thinking has always distinguished it from the others and made it a reliable and reputable magazine. Thousands of news, hundreds of articles, projects and implementations have been included with this approach. Most of the readers of YAPI Magazine, are architects, architecture students and manufacturers. It always adapts to architectural developments and it always appeals to the needs of architecture environment and building sector.