Rethinking, Reinterpreting and Restructuring Composite Cities

Gülsün Sağlamer is a Professor of Architecture and the former Rector of Istanbul Technical University. She has also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Cambridge University and Visiting Professor at Queen’s University of Belfast, and as a Board Member of the European University Association. She has served as a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 2011. The American Institute of Architects awarded her an Honorary Fellowship in 2006.

Meltem Aksoy is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, having received her PhD in 2001 from the same institution. Dr Aksoy’s research areas focus on computational design, generative systems, and information technologies and their effects on architectural design theory, practice and education.

Fatma Erkök is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, where she received her Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees. Her research focuses on doctoral education in architecture, water-city relationships and transformations, and body-space relationships in architecture.

Nurbin Paker is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, having received her PhD in 2002 from the same institution. Her research interests focus on architectural and urban design and creativity in design education. She has also undertaken various architectural design projects and received architectural design awards.

Pelin Dursun Çebi studied Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, and received her MArch degree in 1995 and PhD degree in 2002. She served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Newcastle, UK, in 1995, and her research interests focus on architectural design, design education, body space relationships, spatial choreography, architectural morphology, and space syntax.