Department of Architecture

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.

Finalists were determined in the International Mask Design Contest with the theme of "Architecture and the City" organized by the Department of Architecture of Istanbul Kultur University between March 10 and April 7, 2021. At the jury session on April 9, 2021, the qualifiers were held in two stages. 6 works selected for the final among 177 works were opened to voting.

The patent application of the invention named "Breathing Wall Apparatus Providing Natural Ventilation", developed by Ömer Saatcıoğlu, an academician of the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Kültür University, within the framework of energy efficient building design studies, has been filed.

Istanbul Kultur University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture faculty member Dr. N.Ömer SAATCIOĞLU's invention named "A Masonry Wall System" within the framework of the Hay-Bale Building Design studies in accordance with the conditions of Turkey was registered as an international patent (PCT) on behalf of our university. This registered invention is the first international patent of our university and faculty. N.Ömer SAATCIOĞLU has five inventions, three of which are registered and two of which are in the process of acceptance.

TÜBİTAK 3001 Başlangıç Ar-Ge Projeleri Destekleme Programı, 114K626 numaralı Araştırma Projesi, Yürütücü: Evrim TÖRE: Araştırmacılar: Yasemin ERKAN YAZICI, Zeynep Ayşe GÖKŞİN, Ocak 2015 - Nisan 2016.
 

Istanbul Kultur University Architecture Department organized an e-panel called "Construction Sector in Pandemic and Post-Pandemic" on Tuesday, November 24, between 19.00 and 21.00, with the participation of valuable construction professionals and academics. Master Architect Uğur Özen Özgüven, Civil Engineer Cem Kafadar and Civil Engineer Hakan Ketenci, who participated as speakers at the event moderated by Asst. Prof. Gamze Alptekin, explained the effects of the pandemic process on construction and architectural practices.

Istanbul Kultur University Architecture Department held an e-panel titled "Hasanpaşa Gashouse" on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at 20:00. Lecturer Şeyda Şen was the moderator of the panel in which Asst. Prof. Gülsün Tanyeli, Asst. Prof. Yıldız Salman and Assoc. Prof. Deniz Aslan participated as speakers. In the event, which was held over the Microsoft Teams application, the conservation approaches of Hasanpaşa Gashouse, the design principles of the re-functioning project of the building and the implementation process were conveyed.

IKU Architecture Department organized a panel titled “Rethinking Bauhaus on its Centennial” as part of its 65th Architecture Speeches. In the event was held at Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 15.30, Dr. Architect Doğan Hasol with his speech “Bauhaus and Its Reflections on Turkey”, M. Architect M. Zafer Akay with his speech “From Pluralist Weimar to Reductionist Dessau: The Rise and Fall of the Bauhaus and Koray Güler with his speech "The Reconstruction Story of the World Heritage Dessau Master Houses" attended the panel.