Graduate Programs

Graduate School of Engineering

Department of Architecture

Graduate School of Social Sciences

Department of Design, Technology and Society

MSc in Architecture (with thesis / non-thesis)

* There are scholarships possibilities determined by the program admission committee and approved by the relevant Graduate School Executive Board.

MSc in Design, Technology and Society (with thesis )

* There are scholarships possibilities determined by the program admission committee and approved by the relevant Graduate School Executive Board.

PhD in Architecture

* There are scholarship possibilities determined by the program admission committee and approved by the relevant Graduate School Executive Board.

PhD in Design, Technology and Society

* There are scholarship possibilities determined by the program admission committee and approved by the relevant Graduate School Executive Board.

MSc in City and Architecture (with thesis / non-thesis) (in Turkish language)

* There are scholarships possibilities determined by the program admission committee and approved by the relevant Graduate School Executive Board

Application Requirements

MSc in Architecture (with thesis) Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

Graduation requirements: 3 required course, 4 elective courses, 1 seminar and a master thesis have to be finished. Total minimum 120 ECTS credits should be gained for graduation.

MSc in Design, Technology and Society (with thesis) Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

Graduation requirements: 3 required course, 4 elective courses, 1 seminar and a master thesis have to be finished. Total minimum 120 ECTS credits should be gained for graduation. Electives form other programs can be selected if total credits requirements for graduation completed.

MSc in Architecture (non-thesis) Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

Graduation requirements: 4 required course, 6 elective courses, and a term project have to be finished. Total minimum 90 ECTS credits should be gained.

PhD in Design, Technology and Society Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

Graduation requirements for students who start after MSc or MA degree: 2 required course, 5 elective courses, PhD proficiency study and doctorate thesis have to be finished. Total minimum 240 ECTS credits should be gained. Graduation requirements for students who start after BSc or BA degree: 2 required courses, 13 elective courses, PhD proficiecny study and doctorate thesis have to be finished. Total minimum 300 ECTS should be gained.

PhD in Architecture Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

MSc in City and Architecture (with thesis) Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

Graduation requirements: 3 required course, 4 elective courses, a seminar course and master thesis have to be finished. Total minimum 120 ECTS credits should be gained

MSc in City and Architecture (non-thesis) Program Curriculum Requirements / Total Credits

Graduation requirements: 6 required course, 5 elective courses, and a term project have to be finished. Total minimum 90 ECTS credits should be gained

Faculty

Alper Ünlü

Prof., PhD

Architectural design theories, environment-behavior studies ne theories, space syntax theory for architecture, architectural epstomology, vernacular architecture and cultural environment, post occupancy evaluation, disaster and emergency management

Ali O. İlhan

Asst. Prof., PhD

Longitudinal/hierarchal data analysis, social network analysis, science and technology studies, sociology of education, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and sociology of design disciplines and professions

Alessandro Camiz

Assoc. Prof. PhD

Architectural design, urban morphology, history of architecture

Alpay Er

Prof. PhD

Design management and strategy, design policy, history and education in emerging countries

Aslıhan Ünlü

Prof. PhD

Sustainable building technologies and construction, performance evaluation, and façade and window systems.

Ayşe Hazar Köksal Bingöl

Asst. Prof. PhD

Art and museums, organizations of art world, museum and architecture, city imaginary, cultural policies, industry of culture and creative industries.

Beyza Şat Güngör

Asst. Prof., PhD

Landscape analysis, landscape planning, ecological planning subjects, landscape design, landscape ecology, plant material, planting design and green spaces’ design of housing project

Işıl Oygür İlhan

Asst. Prof. PhD

Design research methods (with a specific focus on design ethnography), design anthropology, user-centered design, and the scholarship of teaching and learning in design.

Ceren Güler

Asst. Prof. PhD

Architectural documentation, conservation and restoration; traditional construction techniques; conservation theory; cultural landscape, rural architecture; conservation of modern architectural heritage.

Melis Taner

Asst. Prof. PhD

Islamic Art (Especially early modern Ottoman and Safavian paintings) and Art of Middle Ages

Demet Mutman

Asst. Prof., PhD

Urban space, public spaces and alternative city readings

Metin Çavuş

Asst. Prof. PhD

Documentary film, narrative structures, interactive cinema and film editing theories

Derya Yorgancıoğlu

Asst. Prof. PhD

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.

Özlem Özkal

Asst. Prof. PhD

Typographic design and history, visual communication and design education

Doğa Dinemis Aman

Asst. Prof. PhD

Disaster management, urban landscape planning and design, landscape urbanism, playground design and urban furniture.

Simge E. Orhun

Asst. Prof. PhD

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.

Ece Kalaycıoğlu Özdemir

Asst. Prof. PhD

Buiding enery performance, lighting and daylighting performance modelling and simulations, energy efficient and sustainable architectural design develeopment, thermal and visual comfort analyses, zeo/nearly zero energy/carbon building design, renewable enery systems and district energy systems.

Zeynep Karapars

Asst. Prof. PhD

User experience (UX), users research, service design

Ebru Ergöz Karahan

Asst. Prof., PhD

Housing sector, housing demand, vernacular architecture, housing and energy, occupant behavior, project management and qualitative research methods

Zeynep Merve Uygun Azizoğlu

Asst. Prof., PhD

The visual representation of body and space in documentary film, digital ethnography, and new media documentary (interactive documentary, digital storytelling, transmedia documentary and etc.).

Güliz Özorhon

Assoc. Prof., PhD

Architectural Design, Ecological Design, Housing-Housing Settlements, Architectural Education

Hülya Turgut

Prof., PhD

‘Architectural Design Education’, ‘Housing Design and Research’, ‘Culture and Space Studies’, globalization and its effects on new housing trends, urban transformation and revitalization projects

Işılay Tekçe

Asst. Prof., PhD

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.

İlker Fatih Özorhon

Asst. Prof., PhD

Architectural Design, Building Information, Modern Architecture, Ecological Design, Architectural Education

Melis Taner

Asst. Prof., PhD

Islamic Art (Especially early modern Ottoman and Safavian paintings) and Art of Middle Ages

Mehmet Saner

Asst. Prof. PhD

Urban voids, he is interested in conservation and re-use of old industrial buildings and areas in urban and regional scales.

Murat Şahin

Assoc. Prof., PhD

Architectural Design, Integrated Design, Architecture Education, Regional Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture and Children, Tourism, Public Buildings

Neşe Ganiç Sağlam

Asst. Prof. PhD

Cost effective energy efficiency in buildings, nearly zero enery buildings, green buildings certification systems.

Nevşet Gül Çanakcıoğlu

Asst. Prof. PhD

Pediatric healthcare environments, spatial perception in children, cognition, behavior maps, cognitive maps and space syntax

Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu

Prof., PhD

Architectural design, urban design, culture and space; housing, design and assessment for disabled and aged; architecture/city/ cinema, architectural and urban identity; architectural education, quality in architectural education.

Özlem Altınkaya Genel

Asst. Prof. PhD

Architectural design, İstanbul, urbanization theories, landscape urbanism.

Semra Tokay

Asst. Prof., PhD

Architectural Design

Pınar Sezginalp

Asst. Prof. PhD

Transformation of domestic life in Turkey in 20th Century, modern architectural history of Turkey, contexts of gender and architecture in shaping the residential interior space in the 20th Century.

Selin Üst

Asst. Prof., PhD

Researched based design, architectural education, furniture design

Tayfun Gürkaş

Asst. Prof., PhD

Architectural history, methodology of historiography and critical philosophy.

Touraj Ashrafian

Asst. Prof., PhD

Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB), cost-optimality analysis, building energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), existing buildings’ energy efficient renovation and cost analysis of related actions to implement step-by-step and low initial investment cost renovation methods

Zeynep Ceylanlı

Asst. Prof., PhD

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.

Graduate Programs

Graduate Programs

Graduate Programs

Faculty of Architecture and Design