Moderated by Architect Cem Sorguç, Akbank Sanat’s new talk series titled “HEY! Beyoğlu: Structures, Architects, Stories” continues on Apple Podcast and Spotify. In a timeline between different centuries; “HEY! Beyoğlu” speech series, Pınar Erkan’s speech titled “19th Century in Beyoğlu” in May, Oya Dağlar Macar’s speech titled “Beyoğlu and the White Russians” in June, Paolo Girardelli’s “From the Alps to Galata and Beyond: Pietro Montani’s Intercultural Experience” was broadcast on 15 July, and Mois Gabay’s speech entitled “Jewish Traces in Pera and Galata” was broadcast on 15 August. Moderator Cem Sorguç said the following about the topics covered by the series: “In the first 6 chapters of our series, we will take a look at 19th-century Beyoğlu in fragments, as a holistic section of the cosmopolitan, complex, social and urban daily life. Our aim is a spatial and human memory scraping in the cross-section of architecture, daily life, history, occupation, and case through structures, intermediate spaces and people. A spatial and temporal integration effort to open the invisible codes of today, to assume the disconnection between the past and the future, the old and the new.” The next episodes of the series will continue with Rinaldo Marmara’s speeches on “Beyoğlu and the Levantines”, which will be broadcast on October 15. Akbank Sanat Podcasts can be listened to on Spotify and Apple Podcast.
