Ezgi İşbilen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: FF-409A
Tel: 1869
E-mail: ezgi.isbilen [at] bilkent.edu.tr

Ezgi İşbilen received her PhD in Architecture and Design Research at Virginia Tech in 2023. Her research lies in the intersection of architectural theory, discourses on construction, tectonic imagination, and architectural representation. She has published her work as book chapters (Routledge, Spector) and peer-reviewed journal articles (Journal of Architectural Education, Footprint, Western Humanities Review); and has presented her work extensively at international conferences. Before joining Bilkent, İşbilen taught at Middle East Technical University and Washington Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. She currently teaches fourth year architectural design studios.

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Publications (Selected)

Ezgi İşbilen (2023). “Desert Dreams and Techno-Utopian Nightmares The Complex History of California City and the Colonial Gaze Towards the Desert” Journal of Architectural Education 77|2: 265-277.

Ezgi İşbilen (2023). “The Unbearable Lightness of an Open System: The Packaged House 1941-47” Footprint 31: 67-84.

Ezgi İşbilen (2019). “A Virtual City Scratched on Desert Dust: California City and the allure of the blank slate” Western Humanities Review, 72|3:101-135.

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

Outstanding Doctoral Degree Student Award, Virginia Tech, 2019

Bauhaus LAB:Global Modernism Studies Research Fellowship, 2018

AIA Norhern Virginia Chapter Scholarship, 2018

UCLA Graduate Symposium Travel Grant, 2017

Exhibitions and Lectures (Selected)

Ezgi İşbilen (Curator), “Sogni D’oro: Marco Frascari’s Dream House,” Exhibition paralleled Frascari Symposium III: Ceilings and Dreams, Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, Alexandria VA, 2017