The Architect · Yusuf · Istanbul
Spice Bazaar
This building is a machine for paying for a mosque. The architecture and the economics are the same object.
The L-shaped 17th-century covered market beside the New Mosque, built as an endowment to fund the mosque complex.
— Yusuf, The Architect
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