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  • Architectural Histories of the “Global Sunbelt”

    Architectural Histories of the “Global Sunbelt”

  • Performance-Driven Residential Envelopes: Parametric Optimization for Humid Subtropical Climates

    Performance-Driven Residential Envelopes: Parametric Optimization for Humid Subtropical Climates

Research Stories

  • Architectural Histories of the “Global Sunbelt”

    Architectural Histories of the “Global Sunbelt”

    The lecture presents the historical and theoretical framework of the edited volume Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (2022). It addresses the ways in which the term ‘Global Sunbelt’, coined jointly with co-editors P. Pyla and S. Bozdoğan, offers historiographical potential in rethinking the dividing lines of East–West and North–South,…

  • Architecture and Social Sustainability: Understanding the New Paradigm 

    Architecture and Social Sustainability: Understanding the New Paradigm 

    Tracing how the professionalization of architecture and urban design has often excluded stakeholder input, this talk presents a range of methods and theoretical approaches aimed at retooling the design process toward greater social sustainability. The presentation illustrates these ideas through a series of case studies addressing systemic inequalities, recapturing stakeholder voices, and promoting spatial and…

  • Building Pera, Burning Pera: The 1870 Fire and the “Imaginary Lines” of Urbanization

    Building Pera, Burning Pera: The 1870 Fire and the “Imaginary Lines” of Urbanization

    On 5 June 1870, the heart of Istanbul’s capitalist urbanization, Pera, was ravaged by one of the most disastrous fires in the city’s history. Killing thousands of people (and uncounted nonhumans) and destroying large swathes of the built environment, the Great Fire of 1870 has so far not been investigated in its material complexity and…