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Book Architecture and Interiors of the Harems in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul(Cambridge University Press, 2026) Uğurlu, Ayşe Hilal; Türker, DenizThis Element centers the architectural and material worlds created by Ottoman imperial women, foregrounding their decisive role in shaping Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century. Focusing on Mihrişah Valide Sultan and the sultan's sisters and female relatives, it examines how their patronage transformed the imperial harem at Topkapı Palace and extended into a network of waterfront mansions, charitable complexes, and suburban estates. Drawing on poetic inscriptions, archival correspondence, and visual sources, the study reconstructs the collaborative processes linking these women to stewards, builders, and artisans. It argues that their domestic and architectural interventions constituted powerful expressions of authority, visibility, and political agency within the empire.Book Part Bordering bodily experience / Experiencing border bodily(Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 2025) Avcı, OzanThe chapter examines the border as a spatial, temporal, bodily, and mnemonic condition rather than merely a political or physical line of separation. Focusing on the divided urban context of Nicosia/Lefkoşa, it argues that borders shape everyday experience by restricting movement, vision, contact, and memory, while also producing intensified forms of perception and awareness.Through a phenomenological perspective, the text challenges dualistic understandings of body and mind, emphasizing that the border is experienced through the whole body. Spatial congestion, folded temporalities, bodily limitation, and constrained memory are presented as key dimensions of border experience. The border is therefore interpreted not only as an instrument of division, but also as an existential and experiential condition that reorganizes how space is sensed, remembered, and inhabited.The chapter also considers artistic, performative, and architectural practices that engage with the buffer zone through movement, sound, memory, and bodily presence. These practices reveal the possibility of rethinking the border as a site of transformation. Rather than treating the border solely as a closed or static barrier, the chapter frames it as a dynamic field where alternative forms of connection, coexistence, and spatial imagination may emerge.Book Letters and Gifts in the Harems of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul(Cambridge University Press, 2026) Uğurlu, Ayşe Hilal; Türker, DenizThis Element examines the political, architectural, and social transformations of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Selim III (1789–1807), foregrounding the central role of imperial women in shaping reform. While Selim's military and administrative initiatives reconfigured Istanbul's urban fabric, his mother, sisters, and female relatives actively advanced these efforts through architectural patronage, diplomacy, and gift exchange. Drawing on archival sources, visual materials, and microhistorical analysis, the Element reconstructs the dynamic networks sustained by these women and their stewards. It challenges assumptions of female invisibility, demonstrating instead their strategic visibility, economic agency, and integral participation in imperial governance and cross-cultural exchange.Master Thesis As an Ordinary Part of Daily Life: Micro-Living in Japan and Hong Kong(MEF Üniversitesi, 2021) Akın, Aysima; Akın Paşaoğlu, TomrisBu araştırma, özellikle son 10 yıldır yükselişte olan mikro yaşam trendini odağına almaktadır. Mikro yaşamın içinde bulunduğumuz zamanın gündelik alışkanlıklarıyla daha uyumlu bir yaşam biçimi olması gerekçesiyle bir tercih mi, yoksa gündelik alışkanlıklarımızı sorgulamak ve değiştirmek zorunda olduğumuz için bir zorunluluk mu olduğu sorusu üzerine derinleşilmiştir. Bu bağlamda bu yaşam biçimini tetikleyen koşulların izleri sürülmüştür. Tezin ana sorusunu tartışmak için, tüm dünyada akılcı küçük mekan çözümleriyle tanınan, kültürel olarak az ile yaşamayı ve dünyada gecici olmayı benimsemiş Japonya, ve dünyanın en yoğun nüfuslu yerlerinden biri olan ve inanılmaz derecede küçük ve yetersiz koşullarda yaşam alanlarına ev sahipliği yapan Hong Kong örneklerine odaklanılmıştır. Tezin ilk bölümünde mikro yaşam trendini tetikleyen global koşullar tartışılmıştır. Bu bağlamda mikro yaşam için kullanılan isimlendirmeler ve bu yaşam biçiminin ortaya çıkışı tarihsel bağlamda ele alınmış ve geçmişte bu fikrin doğmasını tetikleyen koşullar ile bugünün koşulları arasındaki ilişki ortaya konulmuştur. İkinci ve üçücü kısımda ise sırasıyla Japonya ve Hong Kong'taki özgün bağlam ile, resmi ve gayriresmi mikro yaşam örnekleri üzerine yoğunlaşılmıştır. Bu bölümlerde Japonya'da ve Hong Kong'ta mikro yaşamı tetikleyen coğrafi koşullar, demografik yapı ve kültürel birikimlerin izi sürülmüştür.Book Part The Propaganda Power of Urban Views in Selim III's Ottoman Empire(Pera Museum Publication 115, 2023) Uğurlu, A. HilalIstanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire since the mid-fifteenth century, boasts a rich history of panoramic representations that have captivated artists and patrons alike. From the early years, artists affiliated with the retinue of ambassadors to the Ottoman Empire played a significant role in creating these expansive city views. Melchior Lorck’s 11.27-meters long panoramic view of Istanbul, drawn between 1559 and ca. 1563, is one of the earliest attempts to portray the city accurately and in panoramic format. Lorck was an artist assigned to the entourage of the German ambassador to Istanbul, Ogier Ghiselin du Busbecq. In the eighteenth century, the changing nature of diplomatic relations between the Ottoman Empire and European polities led to an increase in the number of embassies and, consequently, the number of artists appointed to these posts. This increase in artistic activity was reflected in the growing number of city views and topographical landscapes of Istanbul produced during this period. Concurrently, the emergence of philhellenism in Europe, coupled with the proliferation of picturesque travel literature, augmented the attention to the Ottoman lands and its capital.Conference Object Philanthropy in the Form of a Hair Strand: Sacred Relics in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lands(Koç University Research Center For Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), 2020) Uğurlu, A. HilalFrom the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by extensive restorations or by demolishing and rebuilding them. While this was not an emergent practice, during the tumultuous moments of the long nineteenth century, these incidents proliferated. Additionally, a sacred network associated with the benevolence and religiosity of the sultans was created by the increasing mobility of the sacred relics of Prophet Mohammad. For instance, hair strands of the Prophet (lihye-i şerif) were sent to different corners of the Ottoman geography by the court. These sacred relics were kept generally in newly built mosques or custom built and repurposed edifices that protected and made its visitation possible. Similarly, in the Capital, visiting these relics became popularized. So much that Abdülmecid I (r.1839-61) ordered the construction of a new imperial mosque (Hırka-i Şerif Camii) at Fatih. Although called a mosque, it was designed specifically for the visitation of the Holy Mantle, as a ziyara. This article investigates the proliferation and circulation of the sacred relics in the nineteenth-century Ottoman lands. It argues that these acts not only aimed to address the religious needs of the subjects but were also expected to infuse the sacredness of these relics to the imperial image.Article Designing and building follies as a pedagogical approach in architectural design education(UOU scientific journal, 2021) Avcı, OzanArchitectural education has its own unique character in-between rational and creative thinking. Within this wide perspective, learning by doing becomes important so as to cover different aspects of this education. At MEF University Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture (FADA), we we've created a unique program called Design-Build Studio (DBS) in order to push creating and doing beyond the boundaries of architectural design studios at universities. In this essay, I would like to focus on follies that we have been designing since 2015 in our DBS program as a pedagogical approach in architectural design education. Follies are pregnant points that can give birth to various forms and functions. Their open structure allows a collective design process with the participation of tutors, students, users, locals, municipalities, and NGOs. Through DBS project our students get a real design experience in a real place with real people, discover the difficulties of this process, improve their communication skills and comprehend the power of design to be used as a tool to improve the lives of everyone. As a result, we believe that designing and creating follie-like structures is critical in architectural design education.Conference Object The Body as the Site of Architectural Knowledge(PUBLICA, 2024) Avcı, OzanArchitecture is not only about buildings but more about the interwoven relationships betweenthe built environment, people, and other living organisms. So, the knowledge of architecturedoes not merely belong to the world of objects, yet to the whole world that consists of subjectsand objects. Here, the body becomes the mediator that constructs the relationship betweenthese two worlds. Through this relationship knowledge is produced within the body, thus thebody becomes the site of this knowledge production process. In this paper I would like to discussthe discovery and production of architectural knowledge through a theoretical background –based on the interconnected relationships between philosophy, psychology and architecture– and my teaching practices.Conference Object X-Ray of an Architectural Design Studio: The Pendulum between the Ontology and Epistemology of Architecture(EAAE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2019) Avcı, OzanArchitectural design studio is a dynamic/interactive/productive atmosphere. This atmosphere is not limited to a physical space—like the school building—but can be produced collectively with the students where the educator comes together with them. Changing the atmosphere during the design process keeps students active, excited and motivated. This motivation triggers creativity. In order to support this creative atmosphere, a pendulum-like movement should be created between the ontology and epistemology of architecture through relational and critical thinking. At this stage, the design of the content and the process of the design studio by the educator come into prominence. In this paper the x-ray of a 3rd year undergraduate architectural design studio in Istanbul will be presented so as to discuss the interwoven relations between the educator, the content, the place, the students and the process.Conference Object Architectural Writing Laboratory: A Design Learning Experiment(2024) Korkmaz, İrem; Aydemir, Ayşe ZeynepWriting is a spatial act - exploring different writing modes may unveil new modes of architectural thinking. When contextualised within the architectural framework, writing takes on a transformative role, capable of opening up possibilities for non-visual relationships and interconnected networks, thereby inviting critical inquiry and discourse. In architectural schools, where the design studio is the central focus, this area usually remains less explored, particularly in undergraduate programmes. However, practising architectural writing brings opportunities to students; for instance, they are introduced to and become familiar with spatial thinking in a literary space where their typically visual preconceptions do not operate.Pursuing this perspective, this paper explores how effectively using writing as a design tool can uncover new and unconventional perspectives on architecture and proposes architectural writing as an interdisciplinary learning tool for guiding future architects and architectural design researchers. These issues are examined through an in-depth study of pedagogical objectives and outcomes of the Architectural Speaking and Writing course, a mandatory subject for third-year undergraduate students.The course is structured as a writing laboratory that closely examines forms of architectural writing as primary instruments for finding a critical voice, engaging in critical dialogue, and communicating with the wider public. Through introducing the design of the course structure and analysing the writing exercises, this paper addresses the crucial role that diverse mediums and methods of expression play for students to connect their internal narratives with external realities in architectural education while altering the dominant position of the educator towards a facilitator.
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