METU GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

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(In alphabetical order)

Elvan ALTAN ERGUT Assoc. Professor (B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., SUNY at Binghamton)
19th and 20th Century Architecture, Architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, Modernism and Modernization in Architecture, Architectural Historiography, 20th Century Architectural Theory
tomris@arch.metu.edu.tr

İnci ASLANOĞLU Professor Emeritus (B.Arch., M.Arch., METU; Ph.D., ITÜ)
Early Republican Turkish Architecture, Foreign Architects in the 20th Century Turkish Architectural Scene, Ottoman Architecture, Ottoman and Western Architecture in the Nineteenth Century, Italian Renaissance Architecture, European and Ottoman Baroque Architecture
aslanogl@arch.metu.edu.tr

Sevil ENGİNSOY EKİNCİ Asst. Professor (B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., Cornell University)
Early Modern Architectural Theory, History of Architectural Books, History of the Body in Architectural Theory, History and Theory of Architectural Historiography, Architectural Encounters between “East” and “West” in the 15th-16th and the 19th centuries
enginsoy@metu.edu.tr

Namık ERKAL Asst. Professor (B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., METU)
Urban history, Architecture of City Frontier, Byzantion-Constantinople-Istanbul
erkal@arch.metu.edu.tr

Jale ERZEN Professor (B.F.A., M.F.A., Art Center College of Design L.A.; Ph.D., ITÜ)
Ottoman Aesthetics, Ottoman Miniatures, Ottoman Architecture of the 15th-16th Centuries; Modern Art, Turkish Art General, Art Criticism; Aesthetics; Environmental Aesthetics
erzen@arch.metu.edu.tr

Suna GÜVEN Professor (B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University)
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Late Antiquity and Early Christian Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Latin Architecture in the Medieval East, Cypriot Studies, Architectural Historiography
guven@arch.metu.edu.tr

Ceren KATİPOĞLU Research Assistant (B.Arch, Eskisehir Osmangazi University; M.A., METU )
Sixteenth century Ottoman Architecture, Architect Sinan's Era, Urban Development in Istanbul between 15th-16th Centuries
ceren@arch.metu.edu.tr

Lale ÖZGENEL Asst. Professor (B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D. METU)
Domestic Architecture in Classical and Late Antiquity, History of Domestic Architecture and Daily Life, Privacy and Gender Studies
olale@metu.edu.tr

Ali Uzay PEKER Assoc. Professor (B.A., Istanbul Universitesi; M.A., Boğaziçi Üniversitesi; Ph.D., ITU)
Ancient Mesopotamia, Early Islamic, Seljuk and Ottoman Architecture, Occidentalism and Orientalism in Architecture, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Baroque and Rococo), Exoticism, Iconography and Symbolism in Islamic and Christian Architecture, Cosmology (ancient and medieval)
peker@arch.metu.edu.tr

Tugba TANYERI-ERDEMIR Part-time Lecturer (B.A., M.A., Bilkent University; Ph.D., Boston University)
Pre-Classical Art and Architecture of the Ancient Near East, Urartian Kingdom, History of Archaeology and Museology in the Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey, Competitive Sharing of Sacred Spaces
ttanyer@metu.edu.tr

Belgin TURAN ÖZKAYA (Director) Assoc. Professor (B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., Cornell University)
Modernism, Twentieth-Century Italian Architecture, Historiography, Theories of Vision and Visuality, Ottoman-Venetian Relations
belt@metu.edu.tr

Ezgi YAVUZ Research Assistant (B.Arch., Uludag U.; M.Arch., Gazi U.)
Twentieth Century Architecture, Abstraction in Art and Architecture
ezgiyavuz@arch.metu.edu.tr

Pelin YONCACI (On Leave) Research Assistant (B.Arch, M.A., METU)
Roman Urban Architecture
pelinyon@yahoo.com

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