Semavi Eyice.

Semavi Eyice was an author, art historian, and scholar whose research connected the architecture of Byzantine Constantinople with the later urban fabric of Istanbul and Anatolia. Kariye Mosque Church of Chora Monastery focuses on a monument whose mosaics, spatial history, and changing functions reveal several layers of the city. Trabzon widens that architectural gaze beyond Istanbul, bringing regional monuments and historical topography into the same disciplined observation. Eyice's writing attends to buildings as physical evidence: location, alteration, reuse, and surrounding streets matter alongside style. He treated monuments not as isolated masterpieces but as parts of inhabited landscapes shaped by successive communities. Readers drawn to a concentrated study of one celebrated structure will find Kariye Mosque Church of Chora Monastery the immediate entry, while Trabzon offers a broader regional perspective on his method.