TED İSTANBUL COLLEGE / 8-B
My Dad ’ s Dream
İrem PEKMEZCİ
Introduction : My father is an architect . He started Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1982 . He has worked as a site manager and then as a project manager in many projects both in Turkey and abroad . He has been building hotels , factories , schools , administrative buildings , skyscrapers , and shopping centers ever since then .
Me : Have you always wanted to be an architect ? Dad : I ’ ll answer this question with one word . No ! After I finished high school , I had only one dream and that was to be a captain .
Me : Very interesting ... Why did you want to be a captain ? Dad : Even today I can ’ t answer why I wanted to be a captain . If I were a believer in reincarnation , I would say I was a captain on sailing ships in a prior lifetime . Jokes aside , I guess the books I read during my youth were generally about the sea . I must have been very impressed by Herman Melville ’ s novel Moby Dick . In addition , Jules Verne ’ s books and R . Michael Ballantyne ’ s , Atoll were the leading books I had read many times . I remember drawing pictures of islands covered with palm trees and sailing ships on blank paper and making sailboats out of cardboard .
Me : By the way , did you have a talent for “ drawing ” that I can associate with architecture ? Could you talk a little bit about your talent ?
Dad : Yes , we can say that . At that time , my ability to draw was the biggest factor in my choice of architecture . I used to draw things all the time , starting in primary school . The first figure I drew everywhere was Basri , who was a comic book hero . This adventure led me as far as working with Oğuz Aral in Gırgır magazine for a while . My cartoons were published on the back pages of the magazine .