Turkey

Emre Senan Design Foundation which is located in Yahsibey Village on the Aegean Coast, Turkey, has been running workshops for international students for nearly 20 years.

After the pandemic and empowered by the climate crisis, a new wave of natural living style far away from the overpopulated cities raised all around the world and generated a return to the countryside, giving a new hope to the rural areas. Following the participative restoration philosophy of Depo Pergamon Workshops, the Caravanserai Summer School 2022 will promote a new model of ecological restoration for rural architecture based on a circular sustainable principle: Sun, Water, Soil, Straw, Dung, and Wood. These natural materials will be used for reviving the vernacular construction techniques in the restoration and renovation of the mud plaster surfaces and the rammed earth pavements of an old architecture complex to be reuse as a new generation caravanserai, a worldwide forgotten typology during the XXI century. To complete the conservation of the preexisting buildings, the original wooden flooring, ceilings and furniture will also be restored. All the work will be led by experts in vernacular architecture and building techniques.

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Computational Design: NEXT

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International Symposium
“Industry | Spatial Planning | Design for the Productive Space”
3 sessions, 2 keynotes, 12 speakers

The opening conference of the “AURA on Saturday” series in 2021 Fall Semester will host architect, professor emeritus, writer Juhani Pallasmaa and architect, writer Hüseyin Yanar.

After an amazing response to the first Virtual World Tour, during the peak of the pandemic in late 2020 early 2021, "AnA" has decided to continue the global digital approach to connect the architectural community on a personal level.

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The next online conference of the “AURA on Saturday” series will host Prof. Ute Schneider, architect, urban designer, and the partner of Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners (KCAP). The lecture will focus on “Re-Activate by Adaptive Re-use” to transform cities into vibrant, open, inclusive, and adaptable places by re-using, re-cycling, re-thinking what is already there, with a holistic vision.

THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: An Online Interactive Conference with global frontiers.
Two-Day Online Conference with Live Presentations, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions, Live Mentorship & Panel Discussions.
A collaborative initiative by ParametricArchitecture (PA) with rat[LAB]EDUCATION, DesignMorphine, A>T

UCTEA Chamber of Architects of Turkey is organizing a series of online conferences called “Designing with People”. With the support of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture program, in these conferences, valuable laureates of the program will be giving lectures talking about their approach in architecture and/or urban planning, their ethical and design approach, and their ideas and development of participation processes. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Deniz İncedayı, President of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Jana Revedin, Founding President of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and Marie-Helene Contal, Director of the Department of Cultural Development, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine will be giving introductory speeches about the award program which started in 2006, and continues under the patronage of UNESCO. The award program recognizes five architects who share both the principles of sustainable development and a participatory architectural approach to the needs of society, in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.

ATI 2021, 2nd International Symposium of Architecture, Technology and Innovation aims to provide scholars and practitioners from various backgrounds with an academic environment to question state-of-the-art tools, techniques and methodologies applied in designing built environments which will be resilient to what the future brings.

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The first AURA Istanbul Saturday Conference in 2021 will host architect, academic and author Professor Lesley Lokko. The lecture will explore a number of student projects that tackle issues of race, identity and gender in diverse and often divergent ways.

The Past, Present & Future: An Online Interactive Conference With Global Frontiers. Two-Day Online Conference with Live Presentations, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions, Live Mentorship & Panel Discussions. A collaborative initiative by ParametricArchitecture (PA) with rat[LAB]EDUCATION, DesignMorphine, A>T

Özyeğin University, 3rd and 4th grade architecture students are sharing their studio projects with a virtual exhibition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual exhibition, organized by students working in Architectural Design Studios run by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alessandro Camiz and Teaching Assist. Özge Özkuvancı, offers the opportunity to explore the studio works by visiting online.

Students of Gedik University Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department have set up the display of a year-end exhibition as a part of the "Interior Photography" course. It is important that the photographs taken by the students "at home" during the pandemic, became more different and creative at the end of the semester.