Department of Architecture

IKU Architecture Club held an event titled “Candid with Emre” on Thursday, December 1 at 15.00, with Architect Emre Arolat as the speaker. The students showed great interest in the event held at Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall in our Ataköy campus. The event, in which Arolat shared his own insight and talked about his own experiences, was concluded after the questions posed by the students were answered.

The article titled “Healthy Buildings and Covid-19” by Prof. Dr. Esra Bostancıoğlu, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture & one of our faculty members of the Department of Architecture, was published in the 31st issue of the “Güney Mimarlık” magazine of the Adana branch of TMMOB Chamber of Architects.

On the initiative of Başakşehir District National Education Directorate, and Başakşehir Living Lab, it was decided to establish a high school specializing in artificial intelligence and related fields in Başakşehir. For this purpose, a number of serial studies were carried out under the leadership of the Directorate of National Education. The first of these studies was the report study, which aimed to draw a conceptual framework with the participation of various stakeholders, by focusing on the added value that this high school will produce and the areas where it will affect.

One of the academicians of the Department of Architecture, Prof. Dr. Emel Birer's conversation titled "Sensory Collage" was published in the October 2022 issue of TOKİ News magazine, in which Mimari Collage has been the subject of the file.

Deputy Head of The Department of Architecture, Assist. Prof. Zeynep Ayşe Gökşin attended the "New Approaches in Design Seminar Program" organized virtually by the EXPLOREDRAFT Platform on 12-13 November 2022 as a guest speaker and made a presentation titled "Participatory Approaches in Housing-Based Transformation: A Reading on the Historical Process and Experiences".  In the seminar program, topics such as urban acupuncture, structured urbanization and participatory approaches were discussed.

Within the scope of the "International Ceramic Bathroom Kitchen Fair" held at the Istanbul Expo Centre between 7-11 November 2022, the "Bathroom Design Workshop" event was held on Tuesday, November 8, with the participation of IKU Faculty of Architecture students and lecturers, under the direction of Architect Dicle Hökenek.

A seminar titled “Right After Graduation: Being an Architect” was held on Monday, November 7, between 12.30-13.30, as part of the 2022-2023 Fall Semester activities of the IKU Department of Architecture. Architect & Real Estate Developer Çağrı Kanver participated in the event held at Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center as the speaker.

A panel talk  titled “On Urban Landscape” was held on Thursday, October 27, at 15.00, at the Design Factory at our Ataköy campus as part of the 2022-2023 Fall Semester activities of the Istanbul Kültür University Department of Architecture with Assoc. Prof. Deniz Aslan as the speaker.

Res. Assist. Ufuk Küçükyazıcı and Res. Assist. Berkay Oskay from the Department of Architecture, participated in the TV program “Places and People” which was broadcast live on Medyascope TV on Monday, 31 October to present and discuss the study titled “University as an Actor in the Bahçelievler Millet Bahçesi Participatory Design Practice: An Evaluation Based on the Pedestal of Participation” prepared by a team consisting of Prof.  Dr.  Evrim Tore, Assist. Prof. Zeynep Ayşe Gökşin, Assoc. Prof. Yasemin Erkan Yazıcı, Ayşenur Hilal Iavarone and Lecturer Şeyda Şen.

Res. Assist. Idil Akkuzu, an instructor from the Faculty of Architecture, was a guest at the “Scientific Research Techniques and Publication Ethics” course given to the master’s degree programs of the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul University. In the course held on Tuesday, October 25, Res. Assist. Akkuzu, who presented her study titled “A Process from Transience to Permanence: A Qualitative Research on the Socio-Spatial Practices of Silivri Caravan Park Settlers,” conveyed the topics of qualitative research techniques and grounded theory methods to the students.