ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Emel AKÖZER [Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty]

B.Arch, M.Arch, Ph.D., METU.
room: MATPUM phone: (210) 7268

Fields of interest: theory and criticism in architecture;, architecture; ethics and aesthetics; architectural education; theory and research

Elvan ALTAN-ERGUT

B.Arch, M.A., METU; Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton
room: 65 phone: (210) 2233

Fields of interest: social production of the built environment; formation and display of cultural identities in architecture; architecture in the Republican Turkey; 20th century architectural theory; theory of architectural histeriography

Aydan BALAMİR

Associate Professor
B. Arch, M. Arch, Ph. D. METU.
room: 90-C phone: (210) 2222

Fields of interest: architectural culture and criticism; history and theory of modern architecture; issues of identity and style; design in historical context; traditional urban fabrics; modern housing, schools and mosque design; culture and education buildings; architectural design education.


F. Cânâ BİLSEL

B.Arch, M.Arch, METU; DEA Geographie et Sociologie Urbaine, Universite de Paris X-Nanterre; DEA Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Belleville; Ph.D. Universite de Paris X-Nanterre.
room: 70 phone: (210) 2218

Fields of interest: architectural and urban design; theories of urban design and analysis of urban space/form; architectural and urban design in historical urban context; urban sociology, social practices in urban space and everyday life patterns; theories of public realm, public space, spatial practices and collective memory; urban history: late Ottoman and early Republican modernisation in Turkish cities; history of urbanism: ideologies, ideals and models

Ali CENGiZKAN [Advisor to the Department of Architecture]

B.Arch, M.Arch, Ph.D., METU.
room: 407 phone: (210) 6209

Fields of interest: architectural space; urban design; social sciences and architecture

Soofia Tahira ELIAS-ÖZKAN

B.Sc., Karachi University; B. Arch, M.S., Ph.D., METU
room: 85 phone: (210) 2221

Fields of interest: recovery, reuse and recycling of building materials; deconstruction; low-cost housing; community based self-help projects; sustainability in architecture; computer-aided design

Mualla ERKILIÇ-BAYAR

B.Arch., M.Arch., METU; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh.
room: 315 phone: (210) 6233

Fields of interest: architectural theory/criticism; architecture / culture; architectural design

Namık Günay ERKAL

Assoc Professor
B.Arch, M.A., Ph.D., METU.
room: 31 phone: (210) 2256

Ercüment ERMAN

B.Arch, M.Arch, Ph.D., METU.
room: 67 phone: (210) 2212

Fields of interest: earthquake-safe architectural design; timber construction; architectonics; performance of construction; furniture design

Arzu GÖNENÇ-SORGUÇ [Vice Chairperson]

B.S. in Mec.Eng., M.S. in Mec.Eng., Ph.D. in Mec.Eng., METU.
room: 66 phone: (210) 2232

Fields of interest: indoors- outdoors acoustics; optimisation; structural optimisation; structure

C. Abdi GÜZER

B.Arch, M.Arch, Ph.D., METU.
room:69 phone: (210) 2235

Fields of interest: architectural design; architectural theory and criticism; education buildings; media; housing

Emre MADRAN

B.Arch, M.Arch in Restoration, Ph.D. in Restoration, METU.
room: 314 phone: (210) 6232

Fields of interest: conservation of cultural heritage in Ottoman and Turkish republic periods; legal and administrative arrangements on conservation of cultural heritage; conservation of archeological sites, presentations ve arrangements; administration of conservation of sites ve economic models

Zeynep MENNAN

BArch: METU, Dept. of Arch.; CEAA (MArch): Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Villemin; PhD., METU.
room: 55 phone: (210) 2228

Fields of interest: Architectural theory; philosophy; epistemology; critical theory; computational design research*

* Epistemic context and historical positioning of digital research in architecture. Formal and constructivist implications and outcomes of research in computational and cognitive sciences and studies on morphogenesis. Theories of complexity and formal hermeneutics. Non-standardization. Extensions of the mechanic and the organic traditions within the digital paradigm and historical continuity with modernist avant-gardes.

Selahattin ÖNÜR

B.Arch, METU; M.A., University of Essex; Ph.D., METU.
room: 40 phone:: (210) 2243

Fields of interest: urban public space; theory of architectural form

Ali Uzay PEKER [Associate Dean of the Faculty]

B.A., İstanbul University; M.A., Bosphorous University; Ph.D., ITU.
room: Deanery phone: (210) 2207

Fields of interest: Ancient Mesopotamian, Early Islamic, Seljuk and Ottoman art and architecture; Exoticism, Occidentalism and Orientalism in art and architecture; Iconography and symbolism in Islamic and Christian architecture; cosmology (ancient and medieval)

Güven Arif SARGIN [Chairperson]

B.Arch, M.Arch, METU; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison.
room: 23-78 phone: (210) 2203

Fields of interest: politics and space; urban and environmental history and theory; social and political history and theory

Ayşen SAVAŞ

B.Arch, M.Arch, METU; Ph.D., M.I.T.
room: 57 phone: (210) 2240

Fields of interest: architecture and representation; exhibition and display design; museology; vision and visuality

Neriman ŞAHİN-GÜÇHAN

B.Arch, M.Arch, Ph.D., METU.
room: 412 phone: (210) 6211

Experience and expertise in: projects of preservation and rehabilitation of historic sites, in restoration and rehabilitation of timber framed historic houses, conservation and edsucation

Fields of interest: Southeastern Anatolia Project, Traditional Greek settlements in Anatolia (Avvalik, Cunda, Kaya Köyü, Sirince), Ankara

Belgin TURAN-ÖZKAYA

B.Arch, M.Arch, METU; Ph.D., Cornell University.
room: 403 phone: (210) 6230

Fields of interest: Modernism; Twentieth Century Italian Architecture; Twentieth Century Aesthetic Theories; Historiography; Visual culture; Ottoman-Venetian Relations