Department of Architecture

Istanbul Kültür University Department of Architecture continues to bring famous architects together with its students and the architectural environment. The second guest of the 2021-2022 Academic Year Fall Semester was Architect Burçin Yıldırım, Co-Founder of PAB Architecture Office. The event was held at Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at 15.00, with the title of “Stretching the Walls”.

The joint workshop, which is a part of the research project titled “Space in Pandemic: The Use of Indoor and Outdoor Space during the Lockdown in Pandemic” organized by FMV Işık University and SPACE Studies of Planning and Architecture, was held online on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.

The Department of Architecture invited Dr. Eray Çaylı, one of the academicians of London School of Economics in the scope of the doctorate program course titled “Sustainable Architecture” lectured by Prof. Dr. Emel Birer. At the event held on Tuesday, November 2 at 13.00, our guest talked about his book on "Anthropocene and Architecture". The concept of Anthropocene was discussed with questions. Thank you to all our students who participated.

Assist. Prof. Esin Hasgül, an academician from the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Kültür University, held an interview titled "Material Trends Podcast Series #5 & Flexibility in Space Designs" as part of the Building Catalog events on October 15, 2021. In the event; Issues such as the importance of flexibility in space designs, the concept of open plan that flexibility is associated with, and the role of the architect in flexible design were discussed in detail.

The first guest of the 2021-2022 Fall Term Architecture Talks organized by the Department of Architecture of Istanbul Kultur University was Abdurrahman Çekim from Baraka Architecture. Çekim met with the students and academicians of the Department of Architecture at the Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall on Monday, October 11, with her presentation on "Searching, Understanding, Collecting". Students and academics showed great interest in the conference, which was held face-to-face after the pandemic.

The academic staff and students of the Department of Architecture came together at the Orientation Program held online on September 14, 2021. We thank the students for their participation.

Institute of Graduate Education Architecture M.S. organized an orientation meeting via Microsoft Teams, on September 21, Tuesday between 14.00-15.30. In the meeting, in which the academics of the department and graduate program students attended, Erasmus, ORION and CATS were introduced through information regarding graduate programs.

Istanbul Kultur University Department of Architecture 2021-2022 Fall Semester Curriculum have been announced.

The orientation for our first year students who are newly enrolled in the Architecture (English) Program will take place online on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 14:00. 

Platform: Microsoft Teams Link: https://bit.ly/3BYwm4x

Houyem Snene, a 2020 graduate of the Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) Department of Architecture, was selected among 970 applicants and accepted to the 4Cities Erasmus Mundus Joint Master program with a 100% scholarship. 4Cities Erasmus Mundus Joint Master is an urban planning master's program that continues in the first semester in Brussels and the next three semesters in Vienna, Copenhagen and Madrid. Congratulations to our graduate.