Academic Staff

Ece Kureli Gulpinar got bachelor's degree from Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture, in 2010. In 2013 she received her MSc degree with her thesis entitled "Documentation, cartography and Pre-Assessment of Ankara Industrial Heritage (1925-1963)" from Gazi University, Ankara. She completed her doctoral studies in 2021 with her PhD dissertation entitled "Urban-Spatial Analysis of Mass Housing Environments: Mapping Batikent in search of alternatives to generic housing" at the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University. During her Research Assistantship at Izmir University of Economics in 2012, she assisted and participated in the studio courses and did the organization/coordination of many workshops, exhibitions, and academic seminars as well as their graphic design. As of 2020, she continues to work as a Lecturer.

İlker Kahraman completed his undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees at Dokuz Eylül University. His main subject of study is sustainable buildings and built environments. He has publications in different journals and books on this subject. He is a board member of the International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment. Dr. Kahraman has completed two projects of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanism and Climate Change to promote sustainable built environments, supported by GIZ, with his research company. He also served as Turkey team leader in the Integrated Building Design Approach project supported by GEF, UNDP, Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. He continues his work on sustainable built environment with COST project (CA 21103)- Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment (CircularB), as a member of the board of directors,. He has research projects with doctorate and master's studies. He is married and has a child.

After graduating from the Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture, Dr. Oner has pursued her education and career in England and the U.S.A. She has a master's degree in City Space and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she developed her core research interest of globalization and global urban networks. Dr.Oner also has a Master's degree in Architecture from the Ball State University in Indiana, U.S.A. She commpleted her doctoral degree in Virginia Tech in Envronmental Design and Planning. Dr. Oner's core research interests are globalization, global urban networks, planning and governance of global cities, urban theory, metropolitan form and built enironment, and comparative urbanization specifically between US and European contexts.

Isik Ülkün Neusser is a graduate of Vienna University of Technology where she completed her Master of Science in Architecture degree with distinction. She started her second master’s degree at Harvard University and continued at the University of Pennsylvania from where she holds a Master of Architecture degree. Isik worked as an architect in New York,Vienna and İstanbul at several well known design studios on various internationally renowned projects. She gained extensive knowledge in a range of fields including architecture, urban design and product design. She also was an Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Technology and taught design studios at the University of Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute, New York. Currently she is working on her PhD Thesis at Vienna University of Technology

After receiving an undergraduate degree in City and Regional Planning from the Middle East Technical University in 1998, he completed a master’s degree in Urban Design at the same university with his thesis on the gated communities in Istanbul. He later received a second master’s degree in Architectural History from University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, with his thesis on theatre architecture in 19th-century London. He completed his Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Toronto in 2104. His Ph.D. dissertation is on the influence of American architecture on postwar Turkish architectural culture. His academic interests include: history of modern architecture, the architectural culture of the Cold War era, the representation of the city and architecture in art and literature, 20th-century Turkish architecture

Tuba Doğu holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Middle East Technical University; with one-year educational experience at The University of Bologna. Following her undergraduate studies, she completed the degree of Master of Design Science at The University of Sydney where she specialized on sustainable housing strategies in low-income settlements. Between her studies, she has worked at various NGOs and involved in action-research projects in Australia, Brazil and India respectively, and lectured at universities in Izmir. She was a Fulbright PhD visiting research fellow at Columbia GSAPP (2017-2018), a fellow at Design Trust Hong Kong (2018), and selected cultural manager under Tandem Turkey Program (2018-2019/2015-2016). In 2020, she completed her doctorate studies at IzTech. Her research interests include social interventions as a form of alternative spatial practices, centering on questions of human and material agency. She continues her research at UrbanTank (www.urbantank.org), which she is a founding partner of since 2013, developing research and intervention projects for human-oriented and participatory urban environments.