SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE FUNCTIONS: COFFEE HOUSES IN EUROPE

Abstract

In addition to examining how coffee houses are a living phenomenon and how the additional
functional features they have gained in the historical process, besides their basic functions, gain
a function within the framework of socio-cultural and political features, it is tried to be
explained with the example of coffee houses in Europe and how popular culture causes changes
in the functional features of these places. The research of this paper, supported by archive
research reveals the changes and transformations of the function of coffeehouses related to
recent history, and also creates a foresight in the future. It also contains important first-hand
information in terms of being a guide for future scientific studies in related fields