Uğur Tanyeli
Prof., Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Istinye University
After graduating from Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture (1976), he received his Ph.D. at Istanbul Technical University (1985). He started teaching as Associated Professor in 1992. He became professor at Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1998. Between 2011-2015 he was the founder dean of Mardin Artuklu University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. He then became the dean of Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture (2015-2018), and between 2018-2020 he was the dean of Istanbul Şehir University Faculty of Architecture and Design. His academic interests are Ottoman/Turkish modernity in a world-historical context, beginning with the 16th century, and its physical and spatial aspects. Some of his books are “Istanbul 1900-2000: Reading Modernity and Housing on the Metropolis” (Akın Nalça, 2004), “Turgut Cansever: Thinker and Architect” (with A. Yücel, Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv Araştırma Merkezi and GG, 2007), “Actors of Architecture: Turkey 1900-2000” (GG, 2007), “Dream, Construction and Objection: Texts of Architectural Criticism” (Boyut, 2011), “Texts of Transgression: Searching for the Ottoman Space” (Akın Nalça, 2015), “Construction by Destruction” (Metis, 2017), “Hesitating Moderns: Architect Ideologues in Turkey and in the World” (Işık University Publ., 2018), "Architect Sinan: Historical and Imaginary" (Metis, 2019) and "Istanbul, Metropolis of Fear" (Metis, 2022).
Speaker’s Events
Event Name | Start | Finish |
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A Talk on ''Istanbul, Metropolis of Fear'' | 05 Oct 2023 11:30 | 12:30 |