ALL TAB CONTENT
Ela Alanyalı Aral, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: architectural design, urban design, public space, sub-spaces along urban roads, creative mapping in architecture, visual structuring of urban form, Phrygian Ankara. |
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T. Elvan Altan, Prof. Dr.[Advisor to the Chairperson] B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton. Fields of interest: 19th and 20th century architecture, modern architecture, architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, social production of the built environment, architectural historiography |
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Bekir Özer Ay, Assist. Prof. Dr.B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: Assessing earthquake damage and loss, Characteristics of Turkish residential buildings, Temporary post-disaster shelter design, Tall building structural systems, Selection and scaling of ground-motion records, Seismic interaction of structural and nonstructural members, Seismically isolated structures, Uncertainty in ground motion prediction models, Earthquake caused damage to industrial facilities. |
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Pınar Aykaç, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Sc. METU; Ph.D., UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. Field of interest: interpretation and presentation of heritage places, culture-led urban regeneration, museum’s role in heritage conservation, museumification, heritage politics. |
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İnci Basa, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: production of urban space; urban culture; early republican Ankara, architectural discourse and theory; discourse analysis; language and architecture relationship |
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Funda Baş Bütüner, Assoc.Prof.Dr.[Department Vice Chair] B.LAUD, Bilkent University; M.C.R.P., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: urban landscape, urban design, landscape-based urbanism, infrastructural urbanism, urban edges, interfacial urban/landscape spaces, urban nature/wilderness, post-industrial and post-infrastructural lands, deep urbanism and site reading |
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A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: conservation and planning of multi; layered towns; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and heritage information management in conservation of cultural heritage; urban archaeology; Bergama (Pergamon); conservation, planning and management of historic urban sites and archaeological sites; utilization of information technologies in different phases of conservation / restoration studies and education |
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F. Cânâ Bilsel, Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in Architecture] 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. 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 |
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A. Berrin Çakmaklı, Assoc. Prof. Dr.[Department Chair] B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Field of interest: sustainability in architecture, energy efficiency of building materials, life cycle assesment of buildings and building materials, construction details |
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Hasan Okan Çetin, Inst.[Assistant to the Dean] |
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Filiz Diri Akyıldız, Specialist Dr.B.Arch., Gazi University; M.S., Ph.D. METU. Fields of interest: conservation theory of tangible cultural heritage, construction techniques and process of traditional dwellings and historic public baths, advanced architectural documentation techniques |
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Ayşe Duman, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: construction techniques and detailing; use of non-destructive investigation techniques for building diagnostics and monitoring and in-situ assessment: Infrared (IR) thermography, ultrasonic testing; building materials, their performance characteristics and decay mechanisms |
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Soofia Tahira Elias-Özkan, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: recovery, reuse and recycling of building materials; deconstruction; sustainability in the built environment; ethical architecture; building performance simulations. |
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Arzu Gönenç Sorguç, Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in Computational Design and Fabrication Technologies in Architecture] B.S., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: acoustics and noise control, computational design and fabrication technologies, biomimetics and computing, structural systems and design, environmental technologies, generative systems |
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Gizem Deniz Güneri Söğüt, Assoc. Prof. Dr.[Department Vice Chair] B.Arch., METU; MsAUD, Columbia University GSAPP; Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism, Methods of Spatial Analysis and Imagination, Spatial Agency |
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İpek Gürsel Dino, Prof. Dr.
B.Arch., Gazi University; M.Arch., METU; M.Sc., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., Delft University of Technology. Fields of interest: design computing, generative design systems, software modeling and development, building performance, building information modeling |
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C. Abdi Güzer, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: architectural design; architectural theory and criticism; education buildings; media; housing |
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Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., METU; Ph.D., TU Delft. Fields of interest: Post-war and Postmodern architectural history, theory and pedagogy, contemporary architectural and urban discourse, basic design education |
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Zeynep Mennan, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., METU; CEAA (M.Arch.), Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Villemin; Ph.D., METU. 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. |
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Özgün Özçakır, Assist. Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage] B.Arch., M.Sc., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: heritage values, heritage and sustainability, heritage impact assessment (HIA), adaptive reuse, approaches and strategies for intervention in heritage places |
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Lale Özgenel, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: domestic architecture in antiquity, history of house and daily life, housing studies, privacy studies, gender studies, medieval architecture |
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Ali Uzay Peker, Prof. Dr.B.A., Istanbul University; M.A., Boğaziçi University; Ph.D., ITU. Fields of interest: Ancient Mesopotamia, Early Islamic, Seljuk and Ottoman Architecture, Occidentalism and Orientalism in Architecture, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Baroque and Rococo), Exoticism, Iconography and Symbolism in Islamic and Christian Architecture, Cosmology (ancient and medieval) |
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M. Koray Pekeriçli, Assoc. Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in Building Science] B.Arch, METU; M.S., Ph.D., University of Reading, UK. Fields of interest: IT in construction, information and knowledge management, decision support systems, social networks and process modelling |
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Ekin Pinar, Assist. Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in History of Architecture] B.Arch., M.A., METU; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Fields of interest: history of modern and contemporary art and architecture; cinema studies; site-specific art; museum studies and institutional critique; expanded cinema and moving image exhibition practices and spaces; audio-visual essay and historiography; narrative space; sense of place in cinema, history and theory of animation; gender and sexuality studies. |
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Güven Arif Sargın, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., METU; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fields of interest: politics and space; urban and environmental history and theory; social and political history and theory |
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Ayşen Savaş, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., METU; Ph.D., M.I.T. Fields of interest: architecture and representation; exhibition and display design; museology; vision and visuality |
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Ufuk Serin, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., METU; M.A., Ph.D., Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (PIAC), Roma. Fields of interest: Late Antique and Byzantine art, architecture, topography; landscape and medieval archaeology; history of architecture; cultural heritage; interpretation and representation of material culture |
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Elif Sırt Çıplak, Specialist Dr.B.S. EU, M.S., Ph.D., METU Fields of interest: diagnosis of materials deterioration problems of historical structures (Mount Nemrut Monuments and Temple of Augustus), archeological sites (Çatalhöyük), and traditional dwellings; examination of performance characteristics of historical construction materials; methods for investigation of biodeterioration, detection, analyses and evaluation of microbial activity on historical materials, biotechnological methods in the conservation of stone materials (biomineralisation and biological mortar) |
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Neriman Şahin Güçhan, Prof. Dr.[Dean of the Faculty of Architecture] B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: Preservation and rehabilitation of historic sites, Conservation Management, Conservation / rehabilitation of timber framed historic houses, material decay, Conservation education, Accreditation of Architectural Education, Ankara, Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP), Nemrut Tumulus, Adıyaman, Old Greek settlements in Anatolia: Ayvalık (Kydonia), Cunda (Alibey), Kayaköy (Levissi), Şirince (Kırkınca) |
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Ali Murat Tanyer, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., METU; Ph.D., University of Salford. |
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Belgin Turan Özkaya, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., METU; Ph.D., Cornell University. Fields of interest: Modernism/nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture, Nineteenth-century culture of travel, collecting and display, Twentieth-century Italian architecture, Theories of vision and visuality, Gender theory, Historiography |
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Sibel Yıldırım, Assist. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: vulnerability and risk assessment, disaster risk management of cultural heritage, resilience of cultural heritage assets, world heritage, conservation and management of archaeological sites |
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Pelin Yoncacı Arslan, Assist. Prof. Dr.[Associate Dean] Fields of interest: Byzantine urban landscape, historical topography of Constantinople, early Byzantine urbanism, mapping and network analysis in the field of digital humanities, 3D digital reconstructions of historical sites, multimedia maps populated with spatial narratives. |
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M. Haluk Zelef, Assoc.Prof.Dr.B.Arch., METU; M.Arch., AA School of Architecture; Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: architectural design and architectural representation; theory and history of modernism and turkish architecture |
ARCHITECTURE TAB CONTENT
BUILDING SCIENCE
CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Pınar Aykaç, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Sc. METU; Ph.D., UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. |
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A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: conservation and planning of multi; layered towns; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and heritage information management in conservation of cultural heritage; urban archaeology; Bergama (Pergamon); conservation, planning and management of historic urban sites and archaeological sites; utilization of information technologies in different phases of conservation / restoration studies and education |
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Filiz Diri Akyıldız, Specialist Dr.B.Arch., Gazi University; M.S., Ph.D. METU. Fields of interest: conservation theory of tangible cultural heritage, construction techniques and process of traditional dwellings and historic public baths, advanced architectural documentation techniques |
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Ufuk Serin, Assoc. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., METU; M.A., Ph.D., Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (PIAC), Roma. Fields of interest: Late Antique and Byzantine art, architecture, topography; landscape and medieval archaeology; history of architecture; cultural heritage; interpretation and representation of material culture |
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Elif Sırt Çıplak, Specialist Dr.B.S. EU, M.S., Ph.D., METU Fields of interest: diagnosis of materials deterioration problems of historical structures (Mount Nemrut Monuments and Temple of Augustus), archeological sites (Çatalhöyük), and traditional dwellings; examination of performance characteristics of historical construction materials; methods for investigation of biodeterioration, detection, analyses and evaluation of microbial activity on historical materials, biotechnological methods in the conservation of stone materials (biomineralisation and biological mortar) |
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Neriman Şahin Güçhan, Prof. Dr.[Dean of the Faculty of Architecture] B.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: Preservation and rehabilitation of historic sites, Conservation Management, Conservation / rehabilitation of timber framed historic houses, material decay, Conservation education, Accreditation of Architectural Education, Ankara, Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP), Nemrut Tumulus, Adıyaman, Old Greek settlements in Anatolia: Ayvalık (Kydonia), Cunda (Alibey), Kayaköy (Levissi), Şirince (Kırkınca) |
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Özgün Özçakır, Assist. Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage] B.Arch., M.Sc., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: heritage values, heritage and sustainability, heritage impact assessment (HIA), adaptive reuse, approaches and strategies for intervention in heritage places |
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Sibel Yıldırım, Assist. Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: vulnerability and risk assessment, disaster risk management of cultural heritage, resilience of cultural heritage assets, world heritage, conservation and management of archaeological sites |
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
T. Elvan Altan, Prof. Dr.[Advisor to the Chairperson] B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton. Fields of interest: 19th and 20th century architecture, modern architecture, architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, social production of the built environment, architectural historiography |
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Lale Özgenel, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D., METU. Fields of interest: domestic architecture in antiquity, history of house and daily life, housing studies, privacy studies, gender studies, medieval architecture |
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Ali Uzay Peker, Prof. Dr.B.A., Istanbul University; M.A., Boğaziçi University; Ph.D., ITU. Fields of interest: Ancient Mesopotamia, Early Islamic, Seljuk and Ottoman Architecture, Occidentalism and Orientalism in Architecture, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Baroque and Rococo), Exoticism, Iconography and Symbolism in Islamic and Christian Architecture, Cosmology (ancient and medieval) |
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Belgin Turan Özkaya, Prof. Dr.B.Arch., M.S., METU; Ph.D., Cornell University. Fields of interest: Modernism/nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture, Nineteenth-century culture of travel, collecting and display, Twentieth-century Italian architecture, Theories of vision and visuality, Gender theory, Historiography |
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Ekin Pinar, Assist. Prof. Dr.[Coordinator - Graduate Program in History of Architecture] B.Arch., M.A., METU; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Fields of interest: history of modern and contemporary art and architecture; cinema studies; site-specific art; museum studies and institutional critique; expanded cinema and moving image exhibition practices and spaces; audio-visual essay and historiography; narrative space; sense of place in cinema, history and theory of animation; gender and sexuality studies. |
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Pelin Yoncacı Arslan, Assist. Prof. Dr.[Associate Dean] Fields of interest: Byzantine urban landscape, historical topography of Constantinople, early Byzantine urbanism, mapping and network analysis in the field of digital humanities, 3D digital reconstructions of historical sites, multimedia maps populated with spatial narratives. |