ENGLISH ARTICLES
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Architecture of Berlin
Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Ed. Kevin Murphy (peer-reviewed) (Oxford University Press, 2022, updated 2025)
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(Back) Translations Make Pluriversal History
Literary Back Translation ed. Veronique Lane (University of Edinburgh Press, 2025)
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“Building Feminism: The 1976 International Congress of Women Architects in Iran”
“Building Feminism: The 1976 International Congress of Women Architects in Iran” with Pamela Karimi, Daidalos (April 2025)
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“Abdel Moneim Mostafa”
Reputations Series, Architectural Review, Summer 2024.
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“Architecture in the Age of Reparations: Rethinking Race and Commemoration Spaces”
Edited by Pari Riahi, et. al. Multiplicity (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024):233-255.
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“The Verandah between Climate Determinism and Climate Consciousness: Colonial Comfort or Self Determination?”
Nka 54 Journal of Contemporary African Art (May 2024): 51-63
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"Democracy and War: The University of Baghdad between Collaboration and National Competition"
Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International, Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman (eds.) (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024, (peer-reviewed).): 299-320
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“Architecture and Resettler Nationalism: Demographic Engineering during and after the Christian-Muslim Partition of 1923"
Special issue: Approaching Architecture, edited by Ruba Kana’an and Avinoam Shalem. Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (peer-reviewed) Vol 4, no. 2 (Feb 2024): 253—278
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“Book Review: Architecture of Co-Existence: Building Pluralism. Edited by Azra Akšamija (Geneva: Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Berlin: ArchiTangle, 2020)”
Journal of Islamic Architecture, (peer-reviewed) 13:1 (January 2024)
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“Partition and an Anti-Xenophobic Architectural Historiography”
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Pakistan, Turkey and their European Diasporas, Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi (eds.) (peer-reviewed)
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“Kreuzberg and an Anti-Discriminatory Architectural Historiography”
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Pakistan, Turkey and their European Diasporas, Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi (eds.) (peer-reviewed)
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“Anti-Immigrant Regulations, Demographic Engineering and Abolishment Activism in Naomi Paik’s Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary”
Avery Review, (April 2023)
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“Decolonize or Redistribute? Abdel Moneim Mustafa and Mid-century Modernism in Sudan”
Find and Tell Elsewhere. Montreal: Canadian Center for Architecture, 2022
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Exhibition Catalog Review: “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985. Edited by Martino Stierli, Anoma Pieris, Sean Anderson (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2022)”
Drawing Matter. 10 November 2022
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“Intertwined Histories: A Conversation on Open Architecture An interview with Esra Akcan”
Interview by Jorge Mejía, Klaske Havik and Memet Charum, Special Issue on “Open Spaces in Latin American Cities” DeArq 33. May 1, 2022
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“Berlin Trilogy”
Special Issue on “Stories Past and Present” in Left Cultures No.1 (2022)
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“Writing Open Architecture as a book on Human Rights (and against Nation-States)”
Special Issue on “Open Architecture: Tradition, Possibilities and Shortcomings” Footprint- University of Delft Architecture Theory Journal (Autumn/Winter 2022): 9-20
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“Architecture, Justice and the Theories of Rights”
Whatever Became of Architectural Theory? Elie Haddad (ed.)
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“An Unlikely Decolonizer”
Reprint of Architettura nei Paesi Islamici of Venice Architecture Biennale,Helen Thomas (ed.) Zurich: gth velag-ETH, 2022: 71-80
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“Istanbul and the Architecture Effect in Times of Cronyism”
Iftikhar Dadi and Ayesha Jatoi, (eds.), The Lahore Biennale 01 Reader
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“Workers in their Kreuzberg Apartments: Introduction to Sohrab Shahid-Saless’ Movie Far From Home”
Pujan Karambeigi (ed.) (Vienna: saxpublishers, 2021). Also read as an introduction to film screening in ‘Curated By’ Biennale in Vienna
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Book Review
Book Review: Christina Schwenkel, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam Book Review: Christina Schwenkel, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2020). Berlin Journal, Fall 2021
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“A Global History for the Age of Reparations”
GAHTC Theorizing the Global Symposium Deliverables, Mark Jarzombek, Eliana AbuHamdi Murchie, Vikramāditya Prakāsh (eds.), 2021
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“Antallagi /Mübadele Ships: Visual Documents of Forced Migration Across the Aegean Sea”
The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art, Sean Roberts, Radha Dalal, Jochen Sokoly (eds.). (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021): 234-251
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“News from the Living Room: Immigrant Agency in Urban Housing”
Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh, Hilde Heynen (eds.) (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021): 301-321
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“Migrant Berlin and Multiplying the Voices of Architecture”
Anything Goes. Exhibition Catalogue at Berlinische Galerie 29.1.2021—16.8.2021 Ursula Müller, Christian Monschke and Antonia Wolff eds. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie/Kerber, 2021
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“How will we live together?”
Catalog of 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Hashim Sarkis (ed.)
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“Erasing History at the Hagia Sophia”
Berkeley Forum, July 27, 2020
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“How to Build a Better World”
Harvard Gazette—Radcliffe April 28, 2020
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“Grief and the Ethics of Memorials”
Pidgin Magazine. Princeton University School of Architecture No. 27 (2020): 92-104
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“Homo oeconomicus of the ‘New Turkey’: Urban Development of Istanbul in the 2000s”
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the present, Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson, eds. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020): 383-407
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“Open Architecture, Rightlessness and Citizens to Come”
Race and Modern Architecture, Irene Cheng, Charles Davis, Mabel Wilson, eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020
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“Letter from Berlin”
Tribune, Owen Hatherley (ed.)
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“How does architecture heal? AKM as Palimpsest and Ghost”
South Atlantic Quarterly 118/1, special issue edited by Bülent Küçük and Ceren Özselçuk. South Atlantic Quarterly, January 2019, pp. 81-89.
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“The Open Architecture to Come: An Interview with Esra Akcan”
Interview by Vando Borghi and Amir Djalali, European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL) Vol 1, No. 1 (2018)
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“What Has Architectural History Done About Recent Immigration Policies?”
SAH Blog
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Book Presentation for “Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 05.07.2018,
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“The Immigrant Continent”
Stedelijk Studies: Art History, Design, Theory, Spring 2018
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“Etimesgut Mosque, Ankara, Turkey”
SOS Brutalism. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, 2018
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“Writing a Global History through Translation: An Afterword on Pedagogical Perspectives”
Modes of Architectural Translation: Objects and Acts, Karen Koehler and Jeffrey Saletnik eds. Special Issue of Art in Translation 10:1 (2018): 136-142
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“The Time of Translation: Victor Burgin and Sedad Eldem in Virtual Conversation”
Time in the History of Art: Temporality Chronology and Anachrony, Dan Karlholm, Keith Moxey eds. (London: Ashgate, 2018)
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“Book Review: Ahmet Ersoy: Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary”
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS. Vol. 79, No. 3 (2016), pp. 650-652
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“Translation Theory and the Intertwined Histories of Building for Self-Governance”
Terms of Appropriation, Ana Miljacki, Amanda Lawrance eds. (London: Routledge, 2018)
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“Housing and Human Rights”
Nagele and METU: A Comparative Research on Modern Housing, edited by Ayşen Savaş, Agnes van der Meij (Ankara: METU Publications, 2018)
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"Migration of Words”
Traduttore, Traditore, Karen Greenwalt and Katja Rivera (eds.), Exhibition Catalog. November 3-December 16, 2017, Gallery 400, UIC, 2017
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“The Weight of the Ideal Architectural Photograph”
Contemporary Turkish Architecture (Istanbul: Nurus, 2017): 10-11
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“Book Review: Zeynep Kezer, Building Modern Turkey, and Meltem Gürel (ed.), Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey”
Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 76, no.4 (December 2017): 555-557
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“Translations of Architecture in West Asia during the Twentieth Century”
The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History Series, Gülru Necipoğlu, Finbarr Barry Flood eds. (Hoboken, Oxford: Blackwell, 2017), vol 2., pp: 1267-1291
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“The Gate of the Bosporus: Early Photographs of Istanbul and the Dolmabahçe Palace”
The Indigenous Lens: Early Photography in Near and Middle East, Markus Ritter, Staci Gem Scheiwiller eds. (Zurich: University of Zurich Press, 2017)
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“Society of Political Images: Centric and Common Proliferation of Photography”
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 28 (Wolfsonian Institute), guest edited by Sibel Bozdoğan (December 2016): 88-111
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“Kreuzberg 10963: Living and Dying in the Asihaus”
Berlin Journal no. 30 (Fall 2016): 6-11.
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“Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace?”
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East: From Napoleon to ISIS,Nasser Rabbat and Pamela Karimi eds. Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2016
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“Exit Implies Entries Lament: Open Architecture in John Hejduk’s IBA-1984/87 Immigrant Housing”
Notes on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded, Gevork Hartoonian ed. (London: Ashgate, 2015)
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Essay for “The Young in Architecture” Special Dossier
Special Issue edited by Esra Kahveci. Arradamento Mimarlik (March 2016): 84-85
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“The ‘Occupy’ Turn in Global City Paradigm: The Architecture of AK Party’s Istanbul and the Gezi Movement”
Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol.2, no.2 (November 2015): 359-378
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“Open Architecture as Adventure Game: John Hejduk ın a Noncitizen District”
Perspecta 48, Yale Architectural Journal Amnesia issue, Summer 2015, pp. 128-144
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“Is a Global History of Architecture Displayable? A Historiographical Perspective on the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and Louvre Abu Dhabi”
Art Margins, vol.4, no.1 (January 2015): 79-101
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“Open Architecture in Berlin-Kreuzberg”
ART PAPERS (January/February 2015): 34-41
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“Can the Immigrant Speak? Autonomy and Participation in IBA 1984/87”
The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art, Chris Dähne, Rixt Hoekstra, Carsten Ruhl eds. 12th International Bauhaus Colloquium 2013 (Jovis, 2015)
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“A Manifesto for Collecting and Translating Manifestoes”
The Future is Not What It Used To Be/Gelecek Artik Eskisi Gibi Değil. Catalog of Istanbul Design Biennial 2014, Zoe Ryan, Meredith Carruthers, eds. (Istanbul: IKSV, 2014): 300-319
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“Book Review: Debating Orientalism”
Turkish Review, vol. 4, no. 4 (2014): 468-469
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“Exhibition Review: Environments and Counter Environments at the Graham Foundation”
Journal of Architectural Education vol. 67, no. 2 (October 2013
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“Book Review: The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City”
Insight Turkey Vol. 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013)
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“Global Conflict and Global Glitter: Architecture of West Asia”
Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (1960-2010) Elie Haddad and David Rifkind eds. (London: Ashgate, 2014): 311-337
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“Postcolonial Theories in Architecture”
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (1960-2010) Elie Haddad and David Rifkind eds. (London: Ashgate 2014): 115-136
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“Translations in Architecture” in round table organized by Zeynep Çelik
International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no.3 (August 2013): 578-580
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“Channels and Items of Translation”
Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn, Aruna D’Souza,Jill Casid eds. (Clark Institute, Yale University Press, 2013)
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“Off the Frame: The Panoramic City Albums of Istanbul”
Photography’s Orientalism, Ali Behdad, Luke Gartlan eds. (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013): 93-115
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"Le Corbusier and the Legacy of Istanbul’s Photographic Panoramas"
L’invention d’un architecte: Le voyage en Orient de Le Corbusier, R. Amirante, B. Kütükçüoğlu, P. Tournikiotis, Y.Tsiomis, eds. (Paris: Fondation Le Corbusier, 2013): 240-255
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“Urban Renewal and its Discontents: Kreuzberg-IBA’ 84/87”
In Istanbul Design Biennale Catalogue (Istanbul: IKSV, 2012)
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“Immigration, Participation and IBA 84/87”
25 Jahre Internationale Bauausstellung in Berlin 1987 Ein Höhepunkt des europäischen Städtebaus, Harald Bodenschatz, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Wolfgang Sonne (eds.). Dortmund: Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst, 2012, pp. 57-74
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“Book Review: Orienting Istanbul and Streets of Memory”
International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Vol.1, No.1 (2012): 149-155
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“Exhibition Review: Anne Tyng, Inhabiting Geometry”
Vol. 71, no.1 (March 2012): 133-135
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“A Building with Many Speakers: Turkish ‘Guest Workers’ and Alvaro Siza’s Bonjour Tristesse Housing for IBA-Berlin”
The Migrant’s Time, Saloni Mathur ed. (Clark Institute, Yale University Press, 2011): 91-114
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“Translating Architectural Knowledge: Bruno Taut’s Siedlung Seminar in Istanbul"
Türkisch-deutscher Kulturkontakt und Kulturtransfer: Kontroversen und Lernprozesse, Şeyda Özil, Michael Hofmann, Yasemin Dayıoğlu Yücel (eds.)
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“Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum"
New German Critique 110 (Summer 2010): 153-179
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“Book Review. Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present”
Journal of Architectural Education Vol 62, No.3 (February 2009): 89-90
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“Civilizing Housewives versus Participatory Users: Margarete Schütte Lihotzky in the Employ of the Turkish Nation State”
Cold War Kitchen. Americanization, Technology and European Users, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachman eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009): 185-207
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“Nomads and Migrants: A Comparative Reading of Sedad Eldem’s and Le Corbusier’s Travel Diaries”
Travel Space and Architecture, Jilly Traganou, Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Samer Akkach (eds.)
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“Reading the Generic City: Retroactive Manifestoes for Global Cities of the Twenty-first Century”
Perspecta Yale Architectural Journal No.41, 2008, pp.144-152
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“Reciprocal Translations of Garden City Housing”
CENTROPA, Vol. 7. No.2, May 2007, pp. 163-179
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“Built at Night”
PIN-UP Magazine, No.2
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“Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut’s Translations out of Germany”
New German Critique 99, Vol. 33, No.3 Special Issue on “Modernism after Postmodernism”
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Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut’s Translations out of Germany
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean, J.F. Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino (eds) (New York: Routledge, 2010): 192-211
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“Melancholies of Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk”
World Literature Today, Vol. 80, No.6, November-December 2006, pp. 39-43
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“Ambiguities of Transparency and Privacy in Seyfi Arkan’s Houses for the New State”
METU Journal of Architecture, Ankara, Spring 2006, pp.25-49
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“Melancholy and the ‘Other’”
Eurozine Cultural Journals.
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“The Siedlung and the Mahalle. Intertwined Histories of Neighborhood”
Eurozine Cultural Journals
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“The Global Housing Question”
Architect’s Newspaper 18, 11.2.2005, p.17
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“World, Open City?”
Architectural Design (AD), Special Issue on Islam and Architecture, guest editor: Sabiha Foster. November 2004 pp. 98-104
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“Manfredo Tafuri’s Theory of Architectural Avant-Garde”
Journal of Architecture, Vol.7, No.2 (2002), pp. 135-170
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“Critical Practice in the Global Era. Question Concerning ‘Other’ Geographies”
Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2002, pp. 37-58
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“Golden Lion Goes to Africa, via Belgium”
Architect’s Newspaper, No.16, 10.5.2004, pp. 9-10
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Book Review: “One Woman’s Place: Book Review of Mary McLeod (ed), Charlotte Perriand”
Architect’s Newspaper, No.13, 7.27.2004, p.11
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“Book Review: Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building”
International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 2004, pp. 139-140
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“Americanization and Anxiety. Istanbul Hilton Hotel by SOM and Eldem”
Proceedings for 2001 ACSA International Conference, Istanbul, June 15-19, 2001
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“Orientalism and Melancholy. Bruno Taut in the East”
Proceedings for 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000
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“Glass Symbolism, Experiential Transparency and Privacy in Maison de Verre”
Proceedings for 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000 and 1999 ACSA West Central Regional Meeting, Fargo, September 24-26, 1999.
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“Letter to A-NY-Time”
With Ş. Yalınay, AnyTime, ed. C. Davidson