Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, cilt.26, sa.2, ss.103-122, 2009 (AHCI)
Eighteenth century coincides an era of change, in which the stonemasons and the construction craftsmen in general gave priority to accumulation of capital and personal benefits. In the Ottoman Empire, it was inevitable for the general rules, which arrange the operation methods of the craftsmen guilds and which are required to be valid for each craftsman, to change as a result of the problems in the organization of the stonemason craftsmen. The demand for change relevant to the operation method of the organization was due to the disagreement between the groups that work under the guild system and the group called "stonemason craftsmen". This case considerably required the review of the general rules imposed by the guild system and caused the emergence of a new point of resistance between the state and the stonemason groups.