Department of Architecture

The results of the research project named “Use of indoor and outdoor space during the lockdown period due to the pandemic” carried out in cooperation with FMV Işık University, Department of Architecture and SPACE Studies of Planning and Architecture with the support of FMV Işık University Scientific Research Projects was shared with an exhibition and a panel at Istanbul Planning Agency (IPA) Florya Campus on Monday, July 18, 2022.

The "National Kuşadası Summer School" was held between 25 June and 4 July 2022, with the sponsorship of the İzmir Branch of Chamber of Architects, TMMOB Chamber of Architects Kuşadası Representative Office, Architecture Foundation Initiatives and Kuşadası Municipality, and with the support of Design Guides Application and Research Association (TARGE). In the 10-day summer school, an executive group of diverse fields and disciplines was formed.

Within the scope of the cooperation between Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Architecture and Fatih Municipality during the 2021-22 Spring Term; in the "Architectural Design" and "Interior Architecture Design" studios and "Diploma" projects in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, students were given various subjects in the Historic Peninsula within the borders of Fatih Municipality. In this context, the students taken to the fields had the opportunity to make an on-site examination.

Department of Architecture 2021-2022 Spring Semester Single Course Exam will be held on Thursday, 30th June 2022 at 14.00-15.00 in Room 2-C-16.

Under the internship protocol signed between Istanbul Kültür University and the Istanbul Metropolitan Branch of the Chamber of Architects, Trakya (Bakırköy) Agency, a summer internship program will be implemented for the students of IKU Department of Architecture  between July 18 and August 15, 2022. In the internship program, which will be implemented with the participation of 20 students and lecturers from the IKU Department of Architecture , the layers of the city will be redesigned with today’s technologies.

In the "Energy Efficient Design and Life Cycle Costs" doctoral course led by Prof. Dr. Esra Bostancıoğlu who is Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Architecture & a faculty member of the Department of Architecture, Salem Ali Mohamed Mohamed from Hungary University of Pécs, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, made a presentation titled "Model Simplification on Energy and Simulation Analysis for Residential Comfort Building Design".

Assist. Prof. Ceren Göğüş from Department of Architecture participated in the seminar within the scope of “An Imported Idea of Modernity: German Architects in Turkey 1923 to 1950” lecture in the master program of Prof. Dr. Raimund Fein and Dr. Evin Eris’s BTU Brandenburgische Technische Universitaet, World Heritage School on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. She made a presentation titled “Late Ottoman-German Relations and Two Resulting Architectural Projects” at the seminar.

One of the academicians of the Department of Architecture, Prof. Dr. Evrim Özkan visited the IPA Florya Campus with the students as the invitation of the Istanbul Planning Agency (IPA) within the scope of #IPAders. During the trip held on Thursday, April 21, Prof. Dr. Özkan talked about the urban transformation processes carried out in shantytowns in the context of the Sarıgöl-Yenidoğan example, accompanied by the findings of the TÜBİTAK Project, which she is the executive of.

Within the scope of the symposium themed “Architectural Episodes 02: New Dialogues in Architectural Education and Practice” organized by IKU Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture, a workshop titled “Muğla Transcripts in/on Disasters: Forest Fires 2021” was organized in cooperation with Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and Istanbul Kültür University Department of Architecture students. The workshop, in which Prof. Dr. Emel Birer and Assist. Prof. Esin Hasgül from İstanbul Kültür University, Assoc. Prof. Öncü Başdoğan Avşar from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Assist. Prof.

The protocol between Istanbul Kültür University Rectorate and Chamber of the Architects of Turkey Trakya (Bakırköy) Metropolitan Branch is signed by our Rector, and Mustafa Fazlıoğlu, Head of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey Trakya (Bakırköy) Metropolitan Branch, on April 21, 2022, Thursday.