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This biography is a DeepL translation of the webpage tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatin_Uluengin
Fatin Uluengin (1920, Istanbul - 3 November 2017, Istanbul) was a Turkish architect. He is best known for his design of the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara. He is also an important expert in the field of classical building details of Ottoman architecture.
Graduating in 1943 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture, Fatin Uluengin worked on important monumental works of Ottoman architecture such as Topkapi Palace and Dolmabahçe Palace. He also worked at the General Directorate of Foundations for many years. However, the most well-known of the mosques he designed and had the opportunity to implement is the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara. Started in 1967 and completed only in 1987, the Kocatepe Mosque is a good example of the clash between tradition and modernism. It also has an important place in the history of Turkish architecture. Vedat Dalokay, who would later design the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, had won the Kocatepe Mosque Project Competition in 1957 together with Dogan Tekelioglu. The project of this mosque, which had a modern style and whose foundations were laid and construction started in 1962, was stopped by the presidency of the association that would build the mosque in the following years. In 1967, the association gave the task of designing this mosque to Hüsrev Tayla and Fatin Uluengin through a direct order method without an architectural competition. Compared to the first modern design, the style of the mosque built afterwards was close to the classical Ottoman mosque style, which was a subject of discussion and criticism.