ARCHTHEO '16 / 10th International Theory and History of Architecture Conference

ARCHTHEO '16 / X. International Theory and History of Architecture Conference Istanbul, Turkey Papers will be published in DAKAM's online library and in the proceedings e-book (with an ISBN number), which will be given to you in a DVD box and will be sent to be reviewed in the "Thomson & Reuters WOS' Conference Proceedings Citation Index-CPCI" Web address: http://www.dakamconferences.org/#!archtheo/zfxq7 Sponsored by: DAKAM * CALL FOR PAPERS ARCHTHEO '16 / X. International Theory of Architecture Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions). Since 2011, a total of 480 presentations by scholars from different places of the world has been hosted by DAKAM's ARCHTHEO Conferences and ten proceedings books and a book of selected papers have been published. The first of the theory of architecture conference series ARCHTHEO has been held since 2011 at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University focusing on the possibility of the theory without the backing of the practice or built environment. The title was, therefore, "Theory for the Sake of the Theory" in an emphatic fashion. In 2012, the discussion centered on the Living and space, the main has been chosen as "House&Home' in particular. ARCHTHEO '13 focused on the two leading roles in architecture, the architect and the so-called 'user' and 'Creativity, Autonomy and Function' has proved to be fruitful discussion theme. In 2014, 'Architecture and Text' has been discussed. Last year, 'Architecture and Criticism' was the main theme. The conferences, which has the focus on history rather than theory has started even earlier, in 2010. Architecture and Media, Architecture and Art, Interactions in the History, Architecture and Politics have the main themes of the events. * AGENDA Abstract submission: SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 Registration: SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 Full papers submission: SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 * KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sibel Bozdogan, Kadir Has University, Harvard University Sibel Bozdogan holds a professional degree in architecture from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1976) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1983). She has taught architectural history and theory courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986-1991), MIT (1991-1999) and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (since 2000). She has also served as the Director of Liberal Studies at the Boston Architectural Center (2004-2006) and has taught at the Graduate Architecture Program of Istanbul Bilgi University (2006-2011). Starting in 2014-2015, she has accepted a position to Chair the new Architecture Department of Istanbul Kadir Has University. Her interests span cross-cultural histories of modern architecture and urbanism in Europe, America, Mediterranean and the Middle East with a specialization on Turkey. In addition to numerous articles on these topics, her publications include a monograph on the Turkish architect Sedad Hakki Eldem (1987); an interdisciplinary volume, Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (1997) co-edited with Resat Kasaba; her seminal Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (University of Washington Press, 2001) which won the 2002 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Koprulu Book Prize of the Turkish Studies Association; and most recently, Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion Books, 2012) co-authored with Esra Akcan. In Fall 2010, she curated the 1930-1950 section of the collaborative Istanbul 1910-2010: City, Built Environment and Architectural Culture Exhibition at the Santral Museum, Istanbul Bilgi University. With her research interests refocused on Istanbul's urban history, especially on issues of public space, urban heritage and collective memory, she is currently coordinating the Istanbul portal of the Mellon funded Harvard Urban Humanities Research project led by Eve Blau and Julie Buckler. Ahmet Ersoy, Bogaziçi University Ahmet Ersoy is Associate Professor at the History Department at Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul. His research involves the cultural history of the Late Ottoman Empire with a special focus on visuality and its links with rising discourses of locality and authenticity during a period of westernizing change. He is the author of Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire (2015), and the co-editor, with Vangelis Kechriotis and Maciej Gorny, of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeastern Europe (1775-1945), vol. III (2010). His publications include "Ottoman Gothic: Evocations of the Medieval Past in Late Ottoman Architecture," in Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay (eds) Manufacturing Middle Ages: Entangled History of Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2013), and "Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period," in Muqarnas 24 (2007). * THEMES TRACK 01: ARCHITECTURE AND CRITICISM Criticism - Criticism and History of Architecture - Architectural Criticism, Critical Theory and 'Critical Architecture' - Essential Texts on Architectural Theory - Architect as Author: Texts by the architects Commenting on Space - Multidisciplinary Studies on architecture - A structural relationship between architecture and text - Traveling, dairies and urban space - Philosophy and architecture Book and architecture - History of architectural publishing - Book and architecture: Architectural Writing - Case studies on terminology and points of view - Definition and concepts by architectural movements or periods TRACK 02: ARCHITECTURE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES - Design as a Critical Tool - Architectural History as Critical Practice - Critical Theory and Space - Ideology and Architecture - Architecture and Capitalism - Reformism and Radicalism - Architecture and political art - Controversies, counterparts and confrontations in architecture (This track is connected to the Critical Approaches Research Direction of DAKAM) TRACK 03: EVERYDAY LIFE AND SPACE - Everyday life, ideology and culture - Phenomenology and architecture - Anthropology, locality and 'low' architecture - Body, movement and space - Perception, feeling and space - Metaphors, symbols and people - Lives of Buildings - Public and private life - Objects and interiors - The problem of scale in architecture - Buildings, urban life and environment (This track is connected to the Everyday Life Research Direction of DAKAM) * SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof. Dr. Aydan Balamir, Middle East Technical University Prof. Dr. Aylâ Fatma Antel, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Prof. Dr. Axel Sowa, RWTH Aachen University Prof. Bart Lootsma, Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck Prof. Dr. Gülsüm Baydar, Yasar University Prof. Dr. Ömür Barkul, Y?ld?z Technical University Prof. Dr. Sengül Öymen Gür, Beykent University Patrick Weber, UCL, Storp-Weber-Architecture Associate Professor Füsun Seçer Kariptas, Haliç University Associate Professor Gökçeçiçek Savas?r, Dokuz Eylül University Associate Professor Leyla Alpagut, Abant Izzet Baysal University Associate Professor Nese Gurallar, Gazi University Associate Professor Dr. Emine Görgül, Istanbul Technical University Associate Professor Derya Elmal? Sen, Karadeniz Technical University Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Sezgin, Mef University Asst. Prof. Dr. Efe Duyan, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Asst. Prof. Dr. Ismet Osmanoglu, Trakya University Asst Prof. Dr. Margarida Brito Alves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Asst. Prof. Dr. Nilay Ünsal Gülmez, Bahçesehir University Asst. Professor Dr. Paola Ardizzola, Antalya International University Asst. Prof. Dr. Suna Çagaptay, Bahçesehir University Asst. Prof. Dr. Sebnem Uzunarslan, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Dr. Eng. Manfredi Saeli, University of Palermo Macarena de la Vega, Teaching Assistant at the University of Canberra * CONTACT conference@dakam.org