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A Time for Solidarity: Rethinking the Architectural Establishment in the Age of Covid-19
(Intellect, 2022) Yücel, Şebnem
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Adaptive Reuse of High-Rise Buildings for Housing: a Study of Istanbul Central Business District
(Cogitatio Press, 2024) Aydemir, Ayşe Zeynep; Akın, Tomris
The abrupt shift to remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic increased vacant office spaces globally, especially in high -rent central business districts (CBDs). These vacant office spaces offer the potential for conversion into housing, addressing the shortage of affordable housing in central areas. Additionally, this topic presents a unique experimental ground for architecture students. This study focuses on the Istanbul CBD as a case study, examining the historical developments that led to a rise in office vacancy rates and housing inequality, and exploring the potential for adaptive reuse of these vacant office buildings. A key focus of this study is to underline the pedagogical value of adaptive reuse, highlighting how such projects can inspire more diverse and equitable housing models, fostering experimental and sustainable design approaches. It systematically evaluates the outcomes of a 4th -year architectural design studio that focuses on the adaptive reuse of the Tat Towers in the Istanbul CBD, a structurally vacant high-rise office building, and asks: How does the context of adaptive reuse enable a different design approach, and, potentially, new spatial norms and standards to emerge, and how might this hold a pedagogical value for architecture education? Following these questions, the article discusses how norms and standards are not only culturally but also typologically contextual, and how the students have explored how norms and standards might change, outlining new design approaches to adaptive reuse.
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Architectural Design Research in Small Practices
(Emerald, 2022) Aydemir, Ayşe Zeynep; Jacoby, Sam
There has been a recently growing interest by architects in practice-based research and the impact of research. At the same time, several post-graduate architecture programmes with practice-led research agendas were founded. This shift towards architectural design research is analysed using the notions of “process-driven research”, “output-driven research” and “impact”. The study aims to investigate and unveil the link between graduate programmes and graduates with a research interest and to test the tripartite model of “process-driven research”, “output-driven research” and “impact” in the context of small architectural practices. The study uses a qualitative and exploratory research approach that includes 11 in-depth interviews conducted in 2020, during the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK) selected interviews were architects representing (1) members or alumni of practice-related graduate architecture programmes in London and (2) founders of London-based small architectural practices within the last decade. While focussing on the London context, the paper offers transferable insights for the key potentials of practice-led design research in small architectural practices and the actions that might improve research practice. This paper addresses a lack of studies on how design research differs between diverse types and sizes of architectural firms, why emerging small architectural practices increasingly engage with research and how this shapes their practice. This knowledge is important to fully understanding architectural design research and its strengths or weaknesses.
Architectural Representation as a Body Without Organs
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Avcı, Ozan
Architectural representation plays a critical role as a creative tool, facilitating dialogue and mediation between designer and design. While traditionally viewed as an objective entity, it holds potential for creative expression. Architectural representation is traditionally associated with objectivity and aesthetic beauty. However, as a design tool, it should also embrace subjectivity. Subjectivity in architectural representation goes beyond the architect’s style or drawings, encompassing the presence of the subject within the representation. At this stage, architectural representation becomes related to bodily experience and every experience has its own deformations. The presence of bodily deformations in architectural representations transforms its rigid body into a body without organs. This “new” body may be defined as “beast” rather than “beauty.” In this chapter, I would like to discuss architectural representation as a body without organs to highlight its emancipatory and participatory characteristics that may trigger creativity within the context of analogue and digital worlds. I would also like to emphasize the relationship between beauty and monstrosity that a bodily deformed architectural representation may create and start a new discussion on the aesthetics of architectural representation. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Chara Kokkiou and Angeliki Malakasioti; individual chapters, the contributors.
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Biology, Real Time and Multimodal Design Cell-Signaling as a Realtime Principle in Multimodal Design
(2015) Teixeira, Frederico Fialho
The common understanding of morphogenesis implies a three-dimensional evolutionary change in form witnessed in the developmental process of an organism. This evolutionary process emerges from cell growth, cellular differentiation and environmental changes that generate specific conditions between genotype and phenotype. The complex nature of these aspects is intrinsic to evolutionary biology, and its accurate implementation in bio-generated architectures potentiates a twofold understanding of different morphogenetic strategies and its spatial consequences. Within this premise the morphogenetic factors of cell-differentiation and cell-signaling become a crucial aspect in a real-time communication system between an archetype and space, thus performing within particular modes in which design correlates to space. The paper hypothesizes and tests the use of Cell-Signaling as system of communication that governs fundamental cellular activities within the process of Gastrulation. This process occurs in early cell-embryo development and where communication between cells is favorably active and cellular the structure is established. The Emosphera project is a technical re-contextualization of this specific morphogenetic process. The principles denote a genetic code of the object can be scripted in a CAD environment and reproduced real-time by means of communication through a multimedia platform, which render form as a consequential aspect.
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Building a Community Through a Design Build Studio Program
(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2025) Inceoglu, Arda
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive and critical assessment of the outcomes stemming from a Design-Build program, a pedagogical approach widely adopted by educational institutions worldwide. These programs are instrumental in equipping students with vital practical skills, often unattainable within the confines of a conventional studio environment. While the objectives of this program align with those of similar initiatives in various educational institutions, an examination reveals an unexpected and substantial outcome. Beyond its primary goals, the Design-Build program has played an integral role in instilling a culture of collaboration and camaraderie within the school, thereby significantly contributing to the overall success of its architectural education. All stages of the program consist of collaborative processes, instilling from an early age the importance of working together by helping each other than individual competition.
Contesting Labels: Revisiting Old Questionnaires
(Cambridge University Press, 2020) Ada, Serhan; Yücel, Şebnem
As a response to several questionnaires, manifestos, interviews, and letters that were included in the book Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, this article carries out a new questionnaire with seven artists form various backgrounds and geographies, in an attempt to update and re-question some of the issues that were highlighted in the collected essays. The questionnaire includes three questions, each focusing on a different issue. The first issue considers the validity of the term “Arab Art,” the second tries to identify the main dynamics of contemporary artistic production, and the last one questions the relation of contemporary production of arts to geography and history. The following interviews have been edited for consistency and clarity.
Design-Build Build/Design: an Inquiry-Based Approach To Teaching Beginning Design Students
(Taylor and Francis, 2018) Subotincic, Natalija
This chapter describes an alternate design studio approach that eschews the concept first pedagogy universally adopted in design studio education, avoiding the resulting trap of the seemingly endless formal manipulations that all too often displace the more inclusive material and technical development of a design. The introduction of "design-build" studios and programs into the academic architectural curricula of many schools worldwide reflects recognition of the unhealthy and artificial separation made between design studio culture and the content of technical courses and constitutes an important way of bridging this self-imposed gap. Preserving the simultaneity of concerns and relationships during the design process, although difficult, is rather crucial to an "inquiry-based" approach to learning. When beginning design students start a project without a particular building system in mind, they tend to flounder with respect to design decisions about the tectonic constraints and technical/constructional possibilities of their designs. © 2019 Taylor and Francis.
Drawing the Line: on the Impossibility of Utopia
(Intellect Ltd, 2024) Yücel, Şebnem
When Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout ventured into developing a zero -carbon, no -waste city in 2005, there were no such examples in the world. His artistic vision, complete with a full set of drawings and models, predated any real attempts to build one.1 Van Lieshout, a controversial artist known for his independent state in Rotterdam harbour (AVL-Ville), has 'dissected systems' in his work, be they systems of society or of the human body.2 While dissecting systems, he has often turned to design and architecture, creating provocative work that blurs the line between reality and fantasy.3 His 2005 zero -carbon city project was no exception.4 Van Lieshout's city was a compact one, covering approximately fifty square kilometres. With a set of calculations, models, drawings, paintings, and even objects, the project was complete. A business plan that accompanied the design outlined a program to maintain the city's profitability, an annual profit of 7.5 billion Euro to be exact.5 The project's description referenced some of the important keywords for urban design today, including zero -carbon design, efficiency, and profitability, ultimately suggesting a responsible, ethical, and a desired future. This was not exactly the case, however. This was - as he labelled it - a 'Slave City'. As the name suggests, Van Lieshout's Slave City would be populated by worker slaves who would be divided into four categories:6 healthy and suitable for work (6 per cent of the population), healthy and unsuitable for work (16 per cent), unhealthy and unsuitable for work (29 per cent) and the majority, unhealthy, unsuitable for work, and tasteless (49 per cent).7 Based on these
Free(?) Space at the 2018 Venice Biennale
(Intellect Books, 2019) Yücel, Şebnem
In his article ‘Out of Site/In Plain View: On the Origins and Actuality of the Architecture Exhibition’, architectural historian and curator Barry Bergdoll starts by asking the obvious question: ‘What does it mean to exhibit architecture? Isn’t architecture, once it is built, always already on display?’1 Despite always being on display, however, architecture escapes being exhibited. Because we cannot exhibit architecture in the way an artist can exhibit a painting or a sculpture.
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From Ceremony To Spectacle: Changing Perception of Hagia Sophia Through the Night of Decree (layla’t-Ul Kadr) Prayer Ceremonies [Book Part]
(Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Uğurlu, A.Hilal
After the Hagia Sophia was converted into an imperial mosque by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1451–81), it became a key venue for imperial religious ceremonies. From the sixteenth century until the 1830s, Ottoman sultans customarily performed the Night of Decree prayers at the Hagia Sophia. Although sultans eventually left this tradition and began attending the Night of Decree prayers at other mosques, such as Nusretiye and later Yıldız Hamidiye Mosques, the Hagia Sophia remained significant for Istanbulites. From the 1880s, the court altered the ceremonial decorum at the Hagia Sophia, issuing passes for foreign embassy staff and guests to observe from the upper galleries, with officials explaining the rituals. This period saw an increase in non-Muslim spectators, from tens to thousands. This paper examines the transformation of a religious ceremony into a spectacle by conceptualizing the Hagia Sophia as a showpiece monument, distinct in function from other imperial mosques. It argues that the Hagia Sophia, historically used as a political tool, continued to serve this purpose in a different way between the 1880s and 1932.
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From Ceremony To Spectacle: Changing Perceptions of Hagia Sophia Through the Night of Power (laylat Al-Qadr) Prayer Ceremonies
(Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Uğurlu, A.H.
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Metabolic Flows of Water in İstanbul in the Nineteenth Century: Tap Water, Waste, and Sanitation
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2022) Sert, Esra
Considering the age of socio-ecological crises in which we live, the urgency of understanding the complicated relationship between society and nature is apparent. To achieve this, unfolding the urban metabolism of cities through metabolic flows from the perspective of urban political ecology will grow increasingly essential in the future. This paper aims to explore the concept of urban political ecology as a perspective for understanding emergence of a new urban metabolism in İstanbul in the nineteenth century through metabolic flows of water. The context of “metabolic” emphasizes labor as an agent for the very production of nature as urbanized nature through tap water, waste, and sanitation. It shows the transition and the conflict between the labor-intensive urban metabolism and capital-intensive urban metabolism of İstanbul, which started in the nineteenth century. The metabolic flows of water in terms of infrastructure were affected by the first impacts of foreign capital investments and capitalist relations.
Mobile Mars Habitation
(Springer International Publishing, 2023) Müge Halıcı, Süheyla; Özdemir, Kürşad
This chapter focuses on the concept of mobile habitation on Mars. A description of Mars’ surface features is followed by a review of early concepts of crewed mobility for the Moon and Mars. Wheeled concepts for crew mobility continue to be based on the success of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, and predominantly take the form of a pressurized rover on wheels. With the help of architectural diagrams, the chapter introduces a range of habitable and mobile Mars structures, and the technologies used, taking into account mission requirements. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023, corrected publication 2023.
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Sanctuary of a Thousand Adventures: Selimiye in the Besieged, Occupied, and Liberated Edirne
(Wiley, 2023) Sarısakal, Beril; Sezgin, Ahmet
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Selimiye as a Commemorative Monument in Modern Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Sezgin, Ahmet
Selimiye, an Ottoman dynastic mosque, became a contested site of memory in the 20th century. As the Ottoman Empire disintegrated, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey all had ambitions and even temporary control over Edirne during the first decades of the 20th century. Its unique location at the crossroads of nation-states provides fertile ground for investigating the role of architectural heritage in the formation of a nation's collective memory, with a consideration of transnational influences. This article investigates the development and reception of commemorations involving the monument through close readings of newspaper reports from Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria, as well as international media. It reveals the transnational dimension in forming a national frame of remembrance for the liberation of Edirne.
The Curse of the Phoenix: on Rebuilding Beirut and Hatay
(Intellect Ltd., 2025) Yücel, Ş.E.
To Restore the Dignity of Repair: Care, Architectural Education, and Resistance in a Broken World
(Intellect Ltd., 2026) Yücel, Ş.
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Urban Politics and the Work and Labour Processes of Architecture: Survey Research With Young Architect-Workers in Turkey
(Middle East Technical University, 2021) Sert, Esra; Aykaç, Gülşah; Zırh, Besim Can
There is a general tendency in architecture to insistently see the work andlabour conditions of architects independently from “the production of nature as urban space” (Sert, 2020) embedded in the neoliberal capitalist economic order. However, considering the socio-ecologically crisisprone environments in which we live, understanding the complicated relationship among nature, the urban, and society becomes more crucial than ever before (Heynen, et al., 2006; Harvey, 1996; Smith, 2008). This article aims to question the common trend that treats the production process of urban space as if it were independent of the working conditions of architects. Current architectural theory struggles to find concepts for guiding the complicated relationship of architectural process particularly working conditions of architects with urbanization of nature in the 21st century. Accordingly, as specialized citizens, architects try to rethink ecological and civic imaginaries (Karvonen, 2011) for understanding human embeddedness in space, time, nature, and place (Harvey, 1996;Gandy, 2006). © 2021,Metu Journal of the Faculty of Architecture. All Rights Reserved.
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Which Ground Do Your Feet Touch? on the Metaverse, Image, and the Materiality of Architecture
(Intellect Ltd, 2023) Yücel, Şebnem
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