The transformation of Istanbul’s residential interiors in Turkish novels: the novels <i>Kiralık Konak</i> and <i>Çamlıca’daki Eniştemiz</i>

The Westernization Movement, which began in the mid-19th century, led to radical changes in housing architecture and interior arrangements, as in many other areas of the Ottoman Empire The aim of this study is to analyze the changes and transformations of residential interiors in Istanbul through novels. This research focuses on novels centered on Istanbul from the National Literature period to the post-Republican period (after 1945). In this context, the social and cultural changes in Istanbul can be traced through literary works. Two important Turkish novels. Kiralık Konak and Çamlıca’daki Eniştemiz, will be analyzed in terms of interior transformations. In this framework, the effects of social and cultural transformations on residential interiors were evaluated through literary works. In this study, a unique analysis approach was developed by combining content analysis, a qualitative research method, and thematic coding methods based on the Mazumdar model. The data obtained from thematic coding were visualized using the Atlas.ti program. As a result, through literary texts, important findings have been revealed regarding the transformations of residential interiors in the context of social and architectural values and the architectural products that emerged in this process.