Assoc. Prof.
Emre Altürk
Emre Altürk is an architect and academic based in Istanbul, mostly interested in implications of urban processes for architecture, arts, and life.
Education
[2009] PhD in Architecture, TU Delft .Thesis: Drawing Architecture Theory on the City.
[2004] Master of Architecture, METU, 2004, high honor degree. Thesis: XXL, Metropolis as the Object of Architecture.
[2001] Bachelor of Architecture, METU, 2001, honor degree.
Other Information
Publications:
Peer reviewed international journals:
[2023] A Big Plan for Small Homes: The Effort to Set Housing Standards in Turkey, Journal of Urban History, 49(3), 668-690, DOI: 10.1177/00961442211017496
[2021] Mechanistic plan and urban mass: two contexts of efficient wedding halls in Turkey, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(2), 133-144., DOI: 10.1017/S1359135521000245
[2008] Architectural Representation as a Medium of Critical Agencies, Journal of Architecture, 13(2), 133-152., DOI: 10.1080/13602360802023989
Peer reviewed Turkish journals:
Otomatik Piknik, Mimarİst, 72, 18-23. http://www.mimarist.org/mimar-...
Case report:
[2007] Le Corbusier, Mimarlık, 337, 10-12. http://www.mimarlikdergisi.com...
Book chapters:
[2018] Bugünün Türkiye’sinde Mimarlık Eğitimini Tartışmanın Önündeki Diyalog Tuzakları, Bugünün Türkiye’sinde Mimarlık?, ed. Evren Aysev, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, ISBN:9786053995180.
[2017] Habitable Box, Le Corbusier: The Complete Buildings, ed. Cemal Emden, Burcu Kütükçüoğlu, Munih: Prestel, 38-39, ISBN:9783791384023.
[2016] Berlin as an Island, Continental Capitals, Paris, Berlin, ed. İhsan Bilgin, Bilge Bal, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 243-261, ISBN:9786053994374.
[2010] Drawings that take sides, Architecture as a Craft, ed. Michiel Riedijk, Amsterdam: SUN, 53-69, ISBN:9789461051035.
[2010] Dubai, Copied and Pasted, A Photoshopped Campaign in Turkey, Al Manakh, Gulf Continued, ed. Rem Koolhaas, et al, Amsterdam: Stichting Archis, ISBN:9789077966235.
[2009] Drawing Criticism, Over Holland, ed. Henk Engel, François Claessens, Esther Gramsbergen, Amsterdam: SUN, 69-85, ISBN:9789085066293.
Conference papers:
[2021] A Glossary for The Post-Pandemic City, CPUD '21 / VI. International Online Conference on City Planning and Urban Design Proceedings, İstanbul 49-61.
[2021] Categories of Urban Analysis in Architectural Design Education, ARCHDESIGN ’21 / VIII. International Architectural Design Conference Proceedings, İstanbul, 203-218.
[2020] Assessing Incremental Refurbishment as an Alternative to Demolish & Build-Anew: Lessons from an Architectural Design Studio, Iconarch IV International Congress of Architecture and Planning, Space and Process Proceedings, Konya, 929-958. With Emrah Altınok.
[2006] Urban Architecture, 1/?, Modernization and Regionalism, re-inventing urban identity, v.2. Delft, International Forum of Urbanism, 367-372.
[2006] Drawing Modern City, Urbanism & Urbanization, a new modernity, approaches, theories, and designs. Venice, 273-280.
[2005] Architecture beyond the Lot, EURAU 2nd European symposium on research in architecture, urban and landscape design, conference proceedings, Lille.
Exhibited works:
[2016] Habitable Box, in Cross-Reflections: Architecture, Photography and Text, Le Corbusier Buildings through Cemal Emden’s Lens and Other Interpretations, curator Burcu Kütükçüoğlu.
[2012] Infraordinary: An Anamorphic Manifesto for Istanbul, Installation in 1st Istanbul Design Biennial Elif Kendir B., Ceren Balkır Övünç, Nilay Yurtsever.
Uluslararası atölyeler
[2011] Response to Public Space, Columbia Üniversitesi GSAPP.
[2011] Mediterranean Cities Program International Workshop, Mies van der Rohe Foundation.
[2007] Two Rotterdams, with TU Delft and METU students, Ekim Tan, and Güven Arif Sargın.