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  • Book
    Architecture and Interiors of the Harems in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
    (Cambridge University Press, 2026) Uğurlu, Ayşe Hilal; Türker, Deniz
    This 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, Ozan
    The 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 Part
    Architectural Representation as a Body without Organs
    (Routledge, 2024) Avcı, Ozan
    Architectural representation is reconsidered through the concept of the “Body without Organs,” challenging fixed, hierarchical modes of drawing and thinking. The chapter argues that conventional architectural drawings impose rigid structures that limit creativity and perception. Instead, it proposes a fluid, process-oriented approach where representation becomes an open field of experimentation, shaped by encounters, movements, and hybrid practices. Through artistic and architectural examples, the study explores how drawings can dissolve boundaries between body, space, and imagination, enabling new forms of knowledge production. Ultimately, representation is framed as a dynamic, transformative practice that redefines both architectural thinking and the relationship between designer, medium, and environment.
  • Book
    Letters and Gifts in the Harems of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
    (Cambridge University Press, 2026) Uğurlu, Ayşe Hilal; Türker, Deniz
    This 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.
  • Article
    Mock‐up versus CAD Modeling Preferences of Architecture Students in the Early Design Phase
    (JCoDe: Journal of Computational Design, 2023) Samancı, Buket; Taşpınar, Özge; Karcı, Yaşar Emir; Cengiz, Başak; Özdoğan, Selen; Yıldız Özkan, Dilek; Bittermann, Michael S
    Preferences for using physical mock-up modeling or computer-aided design (CAD) among architecture students in the early design phase are analyzed. The data is obtained from a questionnaire, consisting of eight multiple-choice questions and one open-ended question. The respondents are architecture students; the majority of them are still in their undergraduate studies. As quantitative analysis methods hypothesis tests based on the probability distributions known as the z-distribution, and the Chi-squared distribution were carried out. Generally, it was investigated which modeling technique is more efficient in the early design phase. Moreover, according to the age groups of respondents, the difference in the preference among mock-up and CAD is identified. Explicitly, younger students prefer CAD, while other ones prefer mock-up representation. The reasons for the difference are analyzed. Since the choice for mock-up modeling or CAD modeling can have a strong impact on the design processes of both, students and professionals, the result of the study is relevant, because it gives a hint about probable future architecture practice.
  • Master Thesis
    As an Ordinary Part of Daily Life: Micro-Living in Japan and Hong Kong
    (2021) Akın, Aysima; Göktaş, Sevince Bayrak; Paşaoğlu, Tomris Akın
    Bu 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. Anahtar Kelimeler: Mikro Konut, Demografik Dönüşüm, Değişen Gündelik Hayatlar, Yalnız Yaşam, Yeni Alışkanlıklar, Arazi Kıtlığı, Arazi Yönetimi, Hong Kong'ta Mikro Yaşam, Japonya'da Mikro Yaşam
  • Master Thesis
    As an Ordinary Part of Daily Life: Micro-Living in Japan and Hong Kong
    (MEF Üniversitesi, 2021) Akın, Aysima; Akın Paşaoğlu, Tomris
    Bu 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.
  • Article
  • Article
    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.
  • Book Part
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    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.H.; 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.