Cover Image: THE GARBOVORE VITALIZER: EMPOWERING THE ZABBALEEN COMMUNITY, by Eda Bakırkaya, Arch 402, 2024, Inst.Ezgi İşbilen, Zeynep Ege Odabaşı. See More.
Current:
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Portfolio Review Workshop
Our faculty members Yiğit Acar and Burak Çelik are excited to host a Portfolio Workshop Series for students preparing for master’s programs and job applications.…
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Sustainable Heritage Management of Historic Landscapes: The Case of Rural Ankara
The talk focuses on comprehensive understanding of Ankara’s rural landscapes and their sustainable heritage management, utilizing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a key tool. It…
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Values-Based Approach for New Interventions in Heritage Places: Conservation through Design / Design through Conservation
The presentation immerses itself in the intricate relationship between conservation and design, exploring how these concepts intersect within dynamic historic urban and rural landscapes. At…
Recent Studios & Courses:
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Many Lives of Architecture
Arch 402 is the final studio of the bachelor’s degree education in Bilkent. Being the graduation studio, it aims to increase the autonomy of the student, and provide some introduction to further specialization areas in architecture. Students are expected to define their own design problem, plan and conduct their own research accordingly. The studio requires…
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Generative Industry Zone Redevelopment at Izmır Port
Interlacing Layers of History, Industrial and Commercial Heritage through Sustainable Urbanity: Generative Industry Zone Redevelopment at İzmir Port Area, Alsancak For the Spring Term 2023-2024, ARCH 302 focused on the complex urban layers at the heart of İzmir. The course specifically examined the southern part of İzmir Port in Alsancak, reinterpreting it as a new…
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Co-Creation Hub Re – inventing Working and Learning
ARCH 202 Architectural Design Studio II explored the transition from inflexible architectural functions to rich, cooperative spaces. Employers had shifted to working from cafés instead of traditional office buildings, while small classrooms became monotonous compared to interactive learning opportunities in museums and cultural centers. The semester’s project aimed to create a co-creative hub integrating working…
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Bilkent Art Festival
In FA 102 Basic Design II students were tasked with designing the spatial layout for the Arts Festival on a designated site at the Bilkent University campus. The festival would span five days, and the open, semi-open, and closed spaces will consist of temporary structures that will be dismantled at the event’s conclusion. The students’…
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Arch 418 Final Debates
The ARCH 418 Professional Practice Course culminates in student debates, emphasizing the multifaceted and interdisciplinary nature of architecture in today’s complex urban environments. Paired students choose from a range of topics to engage in a debate, highlighting benefits, drawbacks and defendable aspects of each topic. These debates are crucial for fostering critical thinking, creativity and…
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history andarchitecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugeecamp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out…
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President of Germany Visits Bruno Taut and the House to Live-in Exhibition
On April 24 the President of Germany, Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visited The Literature Faculty of Ankara University where he met the Rector of Ankara University (Prof. Dr. Necdet Ünüvar) ,…
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Büyükada, The Moris Danon Collection The Balyans: Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive
Büyükada: The Moris Danon Collection, which is largely an attempt to compensate for city history written without islands, was penned to understand and explain the Island spirit, which has the…
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Circular City Challenge Workshop
On January 10th, Bilkent University Department of Architecture (BUDA) hosted an international student workshop on developing circular solutions for the post-earthquake redevelopment of Hatay.
Department of Architecture Bilkent University FF-304A
06800 Ankara – TURKEY
Email: arch@bilkent.edu.tr
Phone: +90-312-290-3463
Fax: +90-312-266-4402