Design, Technology and Society Academic Staff; PhD, MSc, MDes
Assistant Professor; Industrial Design
Research Interests: longitudinal/hierarchal data analysis, social network analysis, science and technology studies, sociology of education, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and sociology of design disciplines and professions.
PhD - Sociology, Washington State University
Masters - Industrial Design, Istanbul Technical University
Bachelors - Industrial Design, Istanbul Technical University
Professor; Industrial Design
Research Interests: design management and strategy, design policy, history and education in emerging countries
PhD - Institute of Advanced Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
Bachelors - Industrial Design, METU
Associate Professor; Industrial Design
Research Interests: art and museums, organizations of art world, museum and architecture, city imaginary, cultural policies, industry of culture and creative industries
PhD - Art History, Istanbul Technical University
Masters - Reading Museums Through Technology, Istanbul Technical University, Maastricht University
Bachelors - History, Bogazici University
Assistant Professor; Industrial Design
Research Interests: design research methods (with a specific focus on design ethnography), design anthropology, user-centered design, and the scholarship of teaching and learning in design
PhD - Washington State University
Masters - Industrial Design, ITU
Bachelors - Industrial Design, METU
Assistant Professor; Communication Design
Research Interests: documentary film, narrative structures, interactive cinema and film editing theories.
PhD - Art and Design, Yıldız Technical University
Masters - Art and Design, Yıldız Technical University
Bachelors - Mining Engineeering, Istanbul Technical University
Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Mimari tasarım; kentsel tasarım; kentsel tasarım uygulamaları; mimarlıkta biçimbilimsel çalışmalar, mimarlık ve kimlik, araştırma yöntemleri, Kültür ve mekan; yaşlılar ve özürlüler için konut tasarımı ve değerlendirmesi; mimarlık, kent ve kimlik; mimarlık eğitimi
PhD - Architectural Design, ITU
Masters - Architecture, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, METU
Assistant Professor; Communication Design
Research Interests: typographic design and history, visual communication and design education
PhD - Graphic Design, Bilkent University
Masters - Graphic Design, Bilkent University
Bachelors - Industrial Design, METU
Assistant Professor; Communication Design
Research Interests: spatial communication, interactive exhibiting, ergonomic design and scenography, interactive applications in physical space, interactive media design education, spatial organizations of public spaces and design-driven innovation
PhD - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Masters - Architecture, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, Gazi University
Assistant Professor; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Research Interests: social production of the built environment, residential interiors and gender, architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, modernism and modernization in architecture, architectural historiography, and interior architectural education
PhD - Architectural History, METU
Masters - Architectural History, METU
Bachelors - Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University
Zeynep Karapars
Assistant Professor; Design, Technology and Society
Research interests: User experience design, interaction design, service design, user research method, qualitative research methods
PhD - Industrial Design, METU
Masters - Industrial Design, METU
Bachelors - Economy, Bilkent University
Architecture Academic Staff; MSc, MArch
Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Architectural Design Theories, Environment-Behavior Studies and Theories, Space Syntax Theory for Architecture, Architectural Epistemology, Vernacular Architecture and Cultural Environment, Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Disaster and Emergency Management
PhD - Architecture, ITU; Environment-Behaviour Studies, University of Wisconsin Miwaukee
Masters - Architecture, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Research Interests: Landscape analysis, landscape planning, ecological planning
PhD - Landscape Architecture, Istanbul University
Masters - Landscape Architecture, Istanbul University
Bachelors - Landscape Architecture, Istanbul University
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: urban space, public spaces and alternative city readings
PhD - Architecture, ITU
Masters - Architecture, Uludağ University
Bachelors - Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University
Derya Yorgancıoğlu
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: theory and research in architecture, architectural design, architectural education, architecture-phenomenology relationality, learning space design, scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, architecture and children studies.
PhD - Architecture, METU
Masters - Architecture, METU
Bachelors - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: building energy performance, lighting and daylighting performance modeling and simulations, energy efficient and sustainable architectural design development, thermal and visual comfort analyses, zero/nearly zero energy/carbon building design, renewable energy systems and district energy systems
PhD - Construction Sciences (Architecture), ITU
Masters - Environmental Control and Construction Technology (Architecture), ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: housing sector, housing demand, vernacular architecture, housing and energy, occupant behavior, project management and qualitative research methods
PhD - Architecture, ITU
Masters - Architecture, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Architectural Design, Ecological Design, Housing-Housing Settlements, Architectural Education
PhD - Architecture - Architectural Design, Yıldız Technical University
Masters - Architecture - Building Physics and Material, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Bachelors - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Architectural Design Education, housing design and research, culture and space studies, globalization and its effects on new housing trends, urban transformation and revitalization projects
PhD - Architecture, ITU
Masters - Architecture, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Research Interests: Project and Construction Management, Strategic Management, Performance Measurement/Management in Construction, Research Methods for Construction, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in Construction and Sustainability in Construction
PhD - Architecture - Building Sciences, ITU
Masters - Architecture - Project and Constuction Management, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Architectural Design, Building Information, Modern Architecture, Ecological Design, Architectural Education
PhD - Architectural Design, ITU
Masters - Building Information, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Medieval and Early Modern history art art, production of art outside of the royal court, Ottoman-Safavid relations
PhD - History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Masters - Medieval Studies, Central European University
Bachelors - Social and Political Science, Sabanci University
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: urban voids, conservation and re-use of old industrial buildings and areas in urban and regional scales
PhD - City and Regional Planning, METU
Masters - Architecture, METU
Bachelors - Architecture, METU
Associate Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Architectural Design, Integrated Design, Architecture Education, Regional Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture and Children, Tourism, Public Buildings
PhD - Architectural Design, Yıldız Technical University
Masters - Architectural Design, Yıldız Technical University
Bachelors - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: building physics, environmental control, building energy efficiency, sustainability and green buildings, nearly zero energy buildings
PhD - Construction Sciences (Architecture), ITU
Masters - Environmental Control and Construction Technology, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: pediatric healthcare environments, spatial perception in children, cognition, behaviour maps, cognitive maps and space syntax
PhD - Architectural Design, ITU
Masters - Architectural Design, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Mimari tasarım; kentsel tasarım; kentsel tasarım uygulamaları; mimarlıkta biçimbilimsel çalışmalar, mimarlık ve kimlik, araştırma yöntemleri, Kültür ve mekan; yaşlılar ve özürlüler için konut tasarımı ve değerlendirmesi; mimarlık, kent ve kimlik; mimarlık eğitimi
PhD - Architectural Design, ITU
Masters - Architecture, ITU
Bachelors - Architecture, METU
Özlem Altınkaya Genel
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Development, Urban Geography, Critical Cartography, Environmental History, Turkey, Marmara Region, Istanbul.
PhD - Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Masters - Architectural Design, Bilgi University
Bachelors - Architecture, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: building materials’ and components’ hygrothermal performance, energy conscious building design and post occupancy evaluation especially in LEED certified buildings
PhD - Architecture, ITU
Masters - Architecture, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Building Information, Architectural Design
PhD - Architectural Design, Yıldız Technical University
Masters - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Bachelors - Architecture, İstanbul State Academy of Engineering and Architecture
Assistant Professor; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Research Interests: computational design, material systems, digital fabrication, performance assessments and optimization processes
PhD - Architecture, ITU
Masters - Architecture, Architectural Association
Bachelors - Architecture, ITU
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: methodology of historiography and critical philosophy
PhD - Architectural History, Yıldız Technical University
Masters - Architectural History, Yıldız Technical University
Bachelors - Architecture, Yıldız Technical University
Assistant Professor; Architecture
Research Interests: Energy Efficient Building Design, Building Energy Performance, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEBs), Cost-Optimality Analysis, Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), Energy Efficient Retrofit, Cost Analysis, Building Energy Simulation, Passive Design
PhD - Building Science, ITU
Masters - Architecture, I. Azad University of Tabriz
Assistant Professor; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Research Interests: social production of the built environment, residential interiors and gender, architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, modernism and modernization in architecture, architectural historiography, and interior architectural education
PhD - Architectural History, METU
Masters - Architectural History, METU
Bachelors - Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University
Instructors
Instructor; Industrial Design
Research Interests: Makers, Design process, Systematic design, Do-it-yourself (DIY), Digital fabrication, Desktop manufacturing, 3D printing, Rapid manufacturing, Additive fabrication
PhD - Industrial Design, ITU (ongoing)
Masters - Construction, ITU
Bachelors - Industrial Design, ITU
Instructor; Communication Design
Masters - Game and Interaction Design, Utrecht University
Masters - Information Technologies in Design, ITU
Bachelors - Visual Communication Design, Istanbul Bilgi University
Elias Sarantopoulos
Research Assistants
Research Assistant; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Research Interests: Cognitive processes in architectural design, computational design approaches and digital production / fabrication issues
PhD - Architecture, Karadeniz Technical University (ongoing)
Masters - Architectural Design Computing Program, ITU
Bachelors - Interior Architecture, ITU