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Building Pera, Burning Pera: The 1870 Fire and the “Imaginary Lines” of Urbanization
On 5 June 1870, the heart of Istanbul’s capitalist urbanization, Pera, was ravaged by one of the most disastrous fires in the city’s history. Killing…
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Ensar Temizel Explores How Architectural Visions Outlive Technological Obsolescence
Our faculty member Ensar Temizel’s newest article, “Can a project survive obsolescence? Lessons from Fun Palace and Kawasaki,” has been published open access in The Journal of…
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Of Grafts, Deep Time and Expansive Grounds
Aslıhan Demirtaş will be sharing and discussing what she means of deep time and expansive ground with selected works such as Plinth, Graft, Sultanbeyli Kiosk,…
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Performance-Driven Architectural Design
This lecture presents research exploring how environmental performance can actively inform architectural design under changing climatic conditions. Rather than evaluating buildings only after design decisions…
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Grafting: Designing the Relations Between Past and Future
The lecture analyzes the practice of architectural grafting as a methodological tool to define new relationships between historical pre-existences and contemporary urban scenarios. Through the…
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Geometry as Agency
Buildings are demolished not because they physically fail, but because their construction logic locks them into a single configuration. This cycle of waste suggests that…
Department of Architecture Bilkent University FF-304A
06800 Ankara – TURKEY
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