2008 Spring

* Jale Erzen received the “Award for Contribution to the Profession” at the XIth National Architecture Awards given by Turkish Chamber of Architects.

* Res. Asst. Ceren Katipoğlu received 2006-2007 "METU Thesis Award" with the study entitled "An Analysis of Architect Sinan's Late Period Mosques" that she completed under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Jale Erzen.

* Ph.D. student Kemal Reha Kavas received 2006-2007 "METU Course Performance Award".

* Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci will attend the conference "Le Livre et l'Architecte/The Book and the Architect", organized by Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) and Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture (ENSA) de Paris-Belleville between 31 January and 2 February. She will present the paper entitled "The Eye, the Ear and the Mouth: Production and Consumption of Filarete's Treatise on Architecture".

*Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci will attend the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 23-27, 2008. She will present a paper entitled "When Palladio Met Sinan: An Alternative Reading of Architectural Encounters between Venice and Istanbul in the 16th Century".

* Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci was awarded the Scott Opler Emerging Scholar Fellowship for the paper she presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of SAH at Cincinnati, OH on April 23-27.

* Elvan Altan Ergut will attend the symposium and workshop BUILDING MODERNITY IN THE BALKANS in Bucharest, on May 23-24 to present a paper entitled "Notes on the Historiography of Modern Architecture in Turkey".

* Belgin Turan Özkaya will attend the symposium and workshop BUILDING MODERNITY IN THE BALKANS in Bucharest, on May 23-24 to present a paper entitled "Ambivalent Geographies and 'Modernity': Situating Difference in Architectural History".

* PhD students Kemal Reha Kavas, Gül Öztürk and Çilga Resuloglu will take their Qualification Exams until the end of May.

* Belgin Turan Özkaya will give the keynote speech at the seminar on "How to Write Architectural History" at the Institute of Art History in Estonian Academy of Arts in Talinn on June 3.

* AH 504 PROTHESIS SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS June 6, 2008, Kubbealti

Sibel Yilmaztürk Acar, "Rethinking Architectural Imagery: Use of Photography in Architectural History". Advisor: Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci, Co-Advisor: Belgin Turan Özkaya

Ezgi Yazici, "The Levantine Architects in the Ottoman Empire: Their Institutions, Relations with Other 'Minorities', and Their Reflections in Ottoman Architecture". Advisor: Namik Erkal, Co-Advisor: Paolo Girardelli

* Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Özkaya will organize a session at the 11th International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey on June 17-21 at Bilkent University.

‘Authors’ of Cultural Production and the Shaping of History in Early Republican Turkey

Elvan ALTAN ERGUT and Belgin TURAN ÖZKAYA - Introduction

Can BILSEL – “‘Orient und Okzident’: Ekrem Akurgal, Archaeology and the Problem of Monumental Culture”

Oya ATALAY – “Ernst Egli: Between Tradition and Modernity”

Giorgio GASCO – “Bruno Taut and the Turkish Ministry of Culture: Professional Routes as State Architect in Republican Turkey, 1936-1938”

Ferdan ERGUT - Discussion

*One-Day Workshop, TRANSITIONS INTO MODERNITY, New Readings in the Middle Eastern Intellectual History June 26, 2008, METU School of Architecture

Organized jointly by:

The Center for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)

The University of Adelaide

Middle East Technical University (METU) Graduate Program in Architectural History and Graduate Program in Middle Eastern Studies

Assoc. Prof. Samer Akkach

Assoc. Prof. Ali Uzay Peker

Assoc. Prof. Recep Boztemur

* PhD students Pelin Gürol, Kenneth Hayes and Murat Kenan Sentürk will defend their dissertation proposals until the end of June.