ABIDIN KUSNO, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Currently Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture at the Institute of Asian Research at University of British Columbia. Graduated from Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia (1991); received M.A. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, (1993), and Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, at Binghamton University, SUNY(1997). An Indonesian architectural and urban cultural historian, his research has focused on colonial and postcolonial politics of architecture and urban space. Published books and articles on architecture, spatial politics and historical memory in Indonesia. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

ASHRAF M. SALAMA, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture currently teaching at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals-KFUPM, KSA, a practicing architect in Egypt trained at Al Azhar University and North Carolina State University. Was the Director of Research and Consulting at Adams Group Consultants in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (2001-04); the former Chairman of the Department of Architecture, Misr International University in Cairo (1996-01). Has written numerous articles and papers in international conferences, archival journals and magazines; published the books “Architectural Education: Designing the Design Studio,” “Human Factors in Environmental Design,” and recently co-authored “Architectural Education Today” in Switzerland, and “Architecture as Language of Peace” in Italy. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

AYDAN BALAMÄ°R, B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at METU, teaching architectural design and theory courses. Received her degrees from METU, carried out doctoral research at UC Berkeley. Has research and publication in the field of architectural history and criticism, focusing on the modern condition of architectural culture, profession and education. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

BÜLENT BATUMAN, B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Received his B. Arch. and M. Arch. degrees from the Department of Architecture at METU in 1998 and 2000; his Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from State University of New York - Binghamton in 2006. Currently teaches architectural design at Mersin University. Areas if interest are social production and politics of built environment, history and theory of modern architecture and urbanism, urban politics, and critical social theory. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

DENÄ°Z ÅžENGEL, B.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Ä°zmir Institute of Technology. Studied Comparative Literature and received her academic degrees from BoÄŸaziçi University and New York University. Her research interests are the history of the classical tradition and the Renaissance. She has published on contemporary Turkish art, Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and the nineteenthcentury reception of medieval and Renaissance culture. Her two forthcoming books concern interrelations of verbal and spatial arts, and metaphor. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ä°NCÄ° ASLANOÄžLU, B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Architectural Historian at METU Department of Architecture (Emeritus from 2003). One of the pioneers on ‘Historiography of Early Republican of Architecture’, she has extensively published on the history of early Republican architects and buildings, and the foreign experts practicing in Turkey.

KIVANÇ KILINÇ, B.Arch., M.Arch.
Graduated from Çukurova University (1999), received M.Arch degree at METU (2002). Worked at Anadolu University and METU as a research assistant (2001-2003). Currently Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant in the Art History Department at Binghamton University, SUNY. His research focuses on the spatial politics of gender in the 1930s Ankara. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

TIMOTHY M. ROBERTS, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Currently Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University. Has written several articles on the influence in America of the 1848 Revolutions, including “’Revolutions Have Become the Bloody Toy of the Multitude’: the 1848 Revolutions, the South, and the Crisis of 1850,” Journal of the Early Republic (2005), which won the best article prize of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic. In 1996, he also was awarded an historic preservation award by the City of Tallahassee, Florida, USA, for his sensitive rehabilitation of a nineteenth-century bungalow style house. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

TÜRKAN URAZ, B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of EMU in North Cyprus, previously teaching at Ä°stanbul Technical University. Received her B. Arch. degree from KTU, Trabzon; completed her master’s thesis on ‘Symbolic Meaning of Turkish House’ at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her Ph. D. study at Ä°TU focused on ‘Design Activity and Designerly Behavior.’ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

VACÄ°T Ä°MAMOÄžLU, B.Arch., M.Arch., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Studied architecture at METU and Pratt Institute, and architectural psychology at University of Strathclyde. He is currently teaching architectural design, research methods and universal design at METU. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it