FÄ°GEN AKPINAR; B.CP., M.S., Ph.D.
Received her Bachelor in City and Regional Planning at METU, MS in Rural Planning at the International Centre for Advance Mediterranean Agronomic Studies CIHEAM, the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza IAMZ in Spain in 1997. Extended her training at METU, receiving her Ph.D in 2005. Worked as Urban Planner at the Bank of Provinces (İller Bankası) in Ankara (1986-2007). Currently employed at İzmir Advanced Technological Institute (İYTE) as Faculty member. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

RODRIGO GARCIA ALVARADO; B. Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Has a Ph.D. degree in Architectural Representation from Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain; Master’s degree in Information Technologies for Architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Bachelor’s in Architecture from Universidad Catolica de Chile. Currently works as full-time faculty in the Department of Architecture, Universidad del Bio-Bio, Chile. 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

KEMAL KUTGÜN EYÜPGÄ°LLER; B. Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Ä°stanbul Technical University. Completed his Ph.D. thesis titled “Kastamonu Kent Tarihi” (regarding Kastamonu’s physical evolution throughout history, monuments and historical civil buildings ) in 1995. Recently received the 2006 National Conservation Award of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the “Ä°nebolu Türkocağı Restoration Project”. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

ZEYNEP MENNAN; B.Arch., M.Arch., CEAA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture at METU, Department of Architecture where she is teaching graduate and doctoral courses in architectural theory, research, epistemology and computational design. She has co-curated the “Non Standard Architectures” exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou (2003-2004), and co-edited the exhibition catalogue. Founding Head of the Computational Design Research Unit at METU/MATPUM and Graduate Program Director in Architecture, METU, Department of Architecture. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

MEHMET ÇAÄžLAR MEÅžHUR, B.CP., M.CP., Ph.D.
Received his B.CP. at the Department of City and Regional Planning at METU; M.CP. and Ph.D. from Selçuk University in 1999 and 2004. Has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning, Selçuk University, Konya since 2005. His Ph.D. thesis is titled “The Effects of Land Readjustment Approaches on the Formation of Urban Space; The Case of Konya”. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

MUSA ÖZALP; B.CP., M.S., Ph.D.
Graduated from the Department of City and Regional Planning Department of the Dokuz Eylül University (1998); completed master’s studies in the Department of Traffic Planning and Implementation of the Gazi University (2007). Worked in the Ministry of Transport (2002-2006), and the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement, where he is still working. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

EBRU VESÄ°LE ÖCALIR; B.CP., M.S., Ph.D.
Born in Ankara; graduated from the Department of City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University (1993); completed M.S. in the Regional Planning Department of METU (1996); Ph.D. at the Institute of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering of the Vienna University of Technology (2003). Currently assistant professor at the Department of Traffic Planning and Implementation of the Gazi University, Ankara. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

MÄ°NE ÖZKÂR; B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Received her B.Arch. (1997) from METU in Ankara; M.Arch. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. Currently teaches at METU. Areas of interest are computational design, design thinking, basic design education. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

IÅžIL POLAT; B.Arch., M.Arch.
Architect and research assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Ä°stanbul Technical University. Currently carrying on her Ph.D. studies in the Department of Conservation at ITU. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Bahar ÅžENER; B.I.D., M.A., Ph.D.
Currently employed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design, METU, Turkey. Her research and teaching interests centre on product interactions and affective design, both for consumer goods and digital design tools intended to enhance industrial design practice. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

LEVENT ÅžENTÜRK; B.Arch., M.Arch., Ph.D.
Received undergraduate degree from the Department of Architecture, Osmangazi University (1999), and the graduate from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architectural Design Issues (2003). Completed his doctorate with the thesis titled “The Body of the Modulor” at the Yıldız Technical University (2007). Currently works as research assistant in the Department of Architecture at Osmangazi University, EskiÅŸehir. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

OYA ÅžENYURT; B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D.
Graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Department of Architecture (1991); completed her master’s thesis titled “Greek Architects Operating in Ä°stanbul between the years 1800-1950”, in the Architecture History and Theory Department; graduated with doctoral dissertation titled “Modernization of Building Construction in Turkey and the Development of Commitment System” from the same university (2006). Works at Kocaeli University Faculty of Architecture and Design as assistant professor since 2007. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

MÄ°NE TOPÇUBAÅžI; B.Arch., M.Arch.
Architect and research assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Ä°stanbul Technical University. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Conservation at ITU, working on the 19th century public buildings in the Kastamonu region. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it