Scales, Thresholds And Dilemmas Of Housing Transformations In Istanbul

Arda ÇALIŞKAN

Arda Çalışkan graduated from Bahçeşehir University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in 2017. He started his master’s education in Bahçeşehir University Interior Design program and graduated in 2020 with the thesis titled “Place-Making Practices of Z Generation: Case of Dormitory Rooms”. During this time, he worked as an interior architect at Uğur Schools and Bahçeşehir College. Since 2019, he has been a teaching assistant at Bahçeşehir University’s Faculty of Architecture and Design. He continues his Ph.D. in Architecture and Design at the same university.

Berna SAYAR

Berna Sayar is a teaching assistant at Istanbul Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Architecture and Design. She graduated from Ege University Department of Art History. She received her Master’s degree in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Art History, Turkish-Islamic Arts Program. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the same institution. She participated in the excavations of of Beçin- Milas, Ani-Kars and Edirne Palace. Her research interests are history of architecture, urban history, cultural heritage, Ottoman modernization, archeology of Ottoman period.

Büşra ATAM

Büşra Atam is an architect, who had her bachelor’s degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Department of Architecture in 2015. She completed her master’s degree at Istanbul Technical University Department of Architectural Design in 2019. She is a research assistant at Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture & Design since 2019 and studying for Ph.D. for more than a year in this institution. Her research interests are people-environment relationship and environment-behavior studies, child-play relation in built environment, and educational buildings. Within her doctoral studies, she is researching users’ spatial perception in literature and cinema.

Canay TUNÇER YILDIRIM

Efsun EKENYAZICI GÜNEY (Ph.D.)

She is graduated from Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture (2002). She received her master’s degree (2005), and doctoral degree (2013) from the Building Research and Planning Program of the same university. She started working as a research assistant in the Faculty of Architecture and Design of Bahçeşehir University in 2006 and continued her academic career in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department as a faculty member since 2013. She has taken part in design studios; has taught courses on adaptive reuse, visual media in design, introduction to architecture and interior architecture. She has publications on her research topics which are dwelling culture, urban transformation, adaptive reuse, design education and architectural design.

Emine GÖRGÜL (Ph.D.)

Emine Görgül is an associate professor in Istanbul Technical University-ITU Department of Interior Architecture. She has received her B.Sc. (1999), M.Sc. (2002) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees from ITU. She was a visiting academic in TU Delft, AA-London, HKU, Auburn University. Her researches and publications focus on architecture theory and criticism, politics and space, gender and space, design education.

Gizem AKDEMİR

Hande TULUM (Ph.D.)

She received her bachelor degree in architecture from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture in 2010; her graduate degree in History of Architecture from the same university in 2012 and she worked as an architect in architectural-conservation offices in Istanbul. She received her Ph.D. degree from Bahçeşehir University, Department of Architecture in 2018. She has been a faculty member in Bahçeşehir University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design since 2018. Her research interests include art and architecture relationship, architecture and cinema, history and theory of architecture and design, modern architecture in Turkey, modern architectural heritage, post-war architectural practice in Turkey, twentieth century residential culture in Turkey, urban transformation in Istanbul.

Hatice SADIKOĞLU ASAN

She received her doctorate in design field from Istanbul Technical University. During her Ph.D. studies, she worked as a design researcher in the Housing Lab, La Sapienza University of Rome. She served as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley Center for Environmental Design and Research and Stanford University in 2017–2020. She has been teaching at California San Jose State University since 2018. Her research interests include midcentury modernism, housing design, smart home products, design quality and experience design.

Naz GÜMÜŞELİ

Naz Gümüşeli graduated from Bahcesehir University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in 2013. The author, who completed her master’s program at Istanbul Technical University in the History of Architecture, is still continuing her Ph.D. in Architecture and Design program at Bahcesehir University. The author, who has a thesis named “Cihangir District and Art Deco”, academically focuses on architectural styles, adaptive reuse, and store design. She has been working on store design and visual merchandising for various corporate companies since 2013. The author has also written several academic publications about store design.

Nilay ÜNSAL GULMEZ (Ph.D.)

Pınar ŞAHİN (Ph.D.)

Pınar Şahin currently works as an assistant professor at Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Yıldız Technical University. She completed the second year of her master’s education as a thesis student at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. She studied on Rotterdam office buildings and urban branding. After returning to Turkey, she worked in various architecture offices and construction firms. She received her Ph.D. from Architectural Design Programme at Istanbul Technical University. Her areas of interest are housing researches, architecture and media, modernity and cultural theories, and Early Republican Period architecture.

Suzan GİRGİNKAYA AKDAĞ

Suzan Girginkaya Akdag, Ph.D. is a full-time lecturer at Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Architecture and Design. She received her undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2003. She received her M.Sc. in Architectural Design Computing and her Ph.D. in Architectural Design programs from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). After graduation, she worked in the AEC sector as a full-time and part-time architect. Between 2007 and 2011, she worked at Yeditepe University as a research assistant. Since 2011, she has been lecturing at Bahcesehir University, as an assistant professor. Her research interests are digital technologies and their influence on the interior, architectural and urban design theories, practice and education.