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Esra Akcan Department of Art History (M/C 201) Education
LanguagesEnglish, Turkish, German (advanced reading and intermediate speaking), French (intermediate), Italian (elementary). Teaching and Professional Practice2007-, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 2005-2007, Postdoctoral Lecturer, Columbia University in the City of New York, NY 1999-2006, Adjunct Instructor and Preceptor at Columbia University, New School-Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, New York, NY 1997 – 2003, Teaching Fellow and Section Leader at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York, NY Guest Critic for Numerous Reviews at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, Barnard College, Pratt Institute, CUNY, NJIT (2000-2004) 1993 – 1997, Teaching Assistant at METU, Faculty of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey 1996-1997, Architect for “Kayseri Kadir Has Cultural and Sports Center”, Turkey (Main Architect: Haluk Pamir, Vacit Imamoğlu) Awards and FellowshipsCanadian Center for Architecture (CCA) Research Grant (Fall 2009) Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Grant (2008-2009) Columbia University Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Core Program (2005-2007) Aga Khan Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT (Offered for 2005-2006) Finalist, Society of Fellows, Princeton University, 2005 Columbia University GSAPP Scholarship for Ph.D. 1997-2005 GRAHAM Foundation, Carter Manny Award, Citation of Special Recognition, 2003 MELLON Foundation Scholarship for Comparative Literature, 2002 DAAD Fellowship for Dissertation Research, 2001-2002 KINNE Travel Grant, 2002 KRESS/ARIT Fellowship for Dissertation Research, 2000 Columbia University GSAPP, Distinction for M.Phil exam, 2000. “Cem Culture House for Alevis” Competition, Special Mention, (with Mualla Erkılıç), Turkey, 1996 “Memorial for Artists Burned in Sivas” Competition, Honorarium, Turkey, 1994 MembershipsCollege Art Association (USA), Society of Architectural Historians (USA), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (USA), Architectural League (USA), Historians of German & Central European Art and Architecture (USA), DOCOMOMO (USA-Turkey), SANART (Turkey), Chamber of Architects (Turkey), Union of Architects (Turkey) PublicationsBooksÇeviride Modern Olan. Şehir ve Konutta Türk-Alman İlişkileri, Istanbul: YKY Publishing, in Turkish (forthcoming in 2008) Modern Architecture in Turkey: From the First World War to the Present, co-author: Sibel Bozdoğan, London: Reaktion Books, in English (forthcoming in 2008-9) “Modernity in Translation: Early 20th Century German-Turkish Exchanges in Land Settlement and Residential Culture,” Doctoral Dissertation, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, October 2005. : (Land)Fill İstanbul.Twelve Scenarios for a Global City, Istanbul: 124/3 Publishing, 2004, in English and Turkish Press Reviews and Interviews on the Book: Radikal, July 10, 2004 (Interview and Review by Deniz Alayat) Sanat Dünyamız, August-September 2004 (Inteview by Mine Haydaroğlu) Arredamento Mimarlık, September 2004, (Book Review) XXI, October 2004, (Interview by Bülent Tanju) Guest Editor of Special Issue “Intertwined Histories. Turkey and Central Europe,” CENTROPA, Vol.7, No.2, in English, 2007. Contributors: Esra Akcan, Can Bilsel, Zeynep Çelik, Bernd Nicolai, Yavuz Sezer, Guest Editor of Special Issue “Other’ Geographies Under Globalization” Domus m, Feb-March 2001. in Turkish with English summaries Contributions: e-forum organized by Esra Akcan: Andreas Huyssen, Bülent Tanju, Grahame Shane, Gülsüm B. Nalbantoğlu, Gwendolyn Wright, İhsan Bilgin, Kenneth Frampton, Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Reinhold Martin. Articles: Emel Aközer, John Biln, Cana Bilsel, Sibel Bozdoğan, Christopher Chee-Wai Chew, Lucy Creagh, Mustafa Dikeç, Mualla Erkılıç, Berin Gür, John Loomis, Joan Ockman, Uğur Tanyeli, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Shingo Tsuji Projects: Hariri and Hariri, Christos Papoulias, Andreas Angelidakis, Harikleia and Joyce Haris, William Lim, Kerry Hill, Tan Hock Beng, Glen Murcutt, Peter Stuchbury, SOM, Enrique Norten, Clorindo Testa, GGMPU Contributions as a member in the Editorial Board: Cogito (3-monthly journal on theory and literary criticism) Articles in Journals and BooksIn English“Book Review. Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present” Journal of Architectural Education Vol 62, No.3 (February 2009):89-90. “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. “Reading Generic City: Retroactive Manifestoes for Global Cities of the Twenty-first Century” Perspecta Yale Architectural Journal, No.41 (2008):144-152. “War and Memory Transference: Daniel Libeskind in Berlin and New York" New German Critique (in process for 2009) (peer-review) “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.) (forthcoming from Ashgate) “Desert Storm” Architect’s Newspaper (NY Edition) 03 (02. 20. 2008), p. 28 “Does the Future Start in Dubai?” The Skira Yearbook For Architecture 2007-2008. 128-130. “Reciprocal Translations of Garden City Housing” CENTROPA, Vol. 7. No.2, May 2007 “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” Fall 2006. (peer-review) Also selected for inclusion in Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean. Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities, Jean-Francois Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino (eds) (Routledge: 2009) “Melancholies of Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk” World Literature Today, Vol. 80, No.6, November-December 2006 “Built at Night” PIN-UP Magazine, No.2, Summer 2007 “Ambiguities of Transparency and Privacy in Seyfi Arkan’s Houses for the New State” METU Journal of Architecture, Ankara, Spring 2006 (peer-review) “Melancholy and the ‘Other’” Eurozine Cultural Journals (www.eurozine.com). Also translated into Swedish for Glanta, January 2006 “The Siedlung and the Mahalle. Intertwined Histories of Neighborhood” Eurozine Cultural Journals (www.eurozine.com). “The Global Housing Question” Architect’s Newspaper 18, 11.2.2005. “World, Open City?” Architectural Design (AD), Special Issue on Islam and Architecture, Sabiha Foster (ed). November 2004. “Cosmopolitan Memorials. Projections on the Ground-Zero” 9/11. NY- Istanbul. Feride Çiçekoğlu (ed.) Istanbul: Homer Pub. 2003. “Manfredo Tafuri’s Theory of Architectural Avant-Garde” Journal of Architecture, Summer 2002. (peer-review) “Critical Practice in the Global Era. Question Concerning ‘Other’ Geographies” Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2002. (peer-review) “Golden Lion Goes to Africa, via Belgium” Architect’s Newspaper, No.16, 10.5.2004 “One Woman’s Place: Book Review of Mary McLeod (ed), Charlotte Perriand,” Architect’s Newspaper, No.13, 7.27.2004. “Book Review: Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building” International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 2004. “Kenneth Frampton - Esra Akcan” (Interview with Kenneth Frampton), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1997/11, pp.42-48. “Americanization and Anxiety. Istanbul Hilton Hotel by SOM and Eldem” Proceedings for 2001 ACSA International Conference, Istanbul, June 15-19, 2001. “Orientalism and Melancholy. Bruno Taut in the East” Proceedings for 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000. “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. “Letter to A-NY-Time” (with Ş. Yalınay), AnyTime, ed. C. Davidson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. “Theory and Practice of Architectural Design” with Mualla Erkılıç, Stüdyolar, 1993-1994, pp.30-42. “The Aga Khan Architectural Mission and Demir Houses” with C. Çinici, Selections from International Press, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1993. In Turkish“Metafiziğin Kalesi Hakkında Düşünmek” (Thinking about the Fortress of Metaphysics) Cogito Special Issue on Derrida, 46, Summer 2006. “’Doğayla İç İçe Yaşamak’” (Living with Nature) Varlık, August 2006. “Çoğunluğun Zulmu, Farklılık ve Gökdelen Amerikanizmi” (Tyranny of Majority, Difference and Skyscraper Americanism) Arredamento Mimarlık, April 2008 “Neden Dubai?” (Why Dubai?) Arredamento Mimarlik, 2006/5. “Konut ve Isyan” (Housing and Protest) Cogito 44, Fall 2005 “Modern Komşuluğun İçiçe Geçmiş Tarihleri” (Intertwined Histories of Modern Residential Neighborhoods) Trans. Kaan Atakay, Varlık, Winter 2005. “Melankoli ve Öteki” (Melancholy and the Other) Trans. Efe Çakmak, Cogito 43, Summer 2005. “Temsil Politikası ve 9. Venedik Mimarlık Bienali” (Politics of Representation and the 9th Architectural Biennial of Venice) Sanat Dünyamız, Fall 2004. “Öteki Columbia” (The Other Columbia) Arredamento Mimarlık, April 2004. “Dünya Açık Şehir. Küresel Kent Üzerine Pasajlar“ (World, Open City. Passages on Global Cities), Arredamento Mimarlık, November 2003. “C,” XXI, December 2003. “Urban Flashes İstanbul,” XXI, October 2003. “Kalıcı Savaşın Beton Belgeleri. NY Dünya Ticaret Merkezi Arazisi İçin Mimari Proje Yarışması” (Concrete Documents of Perpetual War. Architectural Competition for the NY WTC Site). XXI, June 2003. “Kağıt Mimarlığı. Boran Ekinci’nin Hayal Evleri” (Paper Architecture. Houses of Boran Ekinci). Arredamento Mimarlık, June 2003. “Soruşturma 2003” (Questionnaire 2003: 20 Turkish Masterpieces of 20th Century) Mimarlık 312, June-July 2003. “Küresel Çağda Eleştirellik. ‘Öteki Coğrafyalar Sorunsalı,” (Criticism in Global Times. “Other’ Geographies) Trans. Alev Erkmen, Arredamento Mimarlık, February 2002 “Amerikanlaşma ve Endişe. İstanbul Hilton Oteli,” (“Americanization and Anxiety. Istanbul Hilton Hotel”) Arredamento Mimarlık, November 2001, pp.112-119. “Öteki’ Dünyanın Melankolisi. Bruno Taut’un Doğu Deneyimi” (The Melancholy of the ‘Other’ World. Bruno Taut in the East), Domus m, Feb-March 2001 “Duvarlar Ona Geri Bakar. Walter Benjamin, Modern Aura ve Şiirsel Düşünce,” (Walls Look Back to Him. Walter Benjamin, Modern Aura and Poetical Thinking”), Studio. Gift to Kemal Aran, ed. E. Aközer, M. Erkılıç, N. Öğüt, Ankara, METU Architectural Press. “Stalker,” Domus m, October-November 2000. “Cam: Cinsel Kimlik: Makina. Maison de Verre, 1. Bölüm. Cam Sembolizmi ve Deneyimsel Saydamlık” (Glass:Gender:Machine. Glass Symbolism and Experiential Transparency in Maison de Verre. Part 1). Domus m, 4, Spring 2000. “Rasyonalizm,” “Bofill, Ricardo,” “Botta, Mario,” “ Hollein, Hans,” “ Kleihues, Josef Paul,” “ Ungers, Oswald Mathias,” items for Eczacıbaşı Sanat Sözlüğü (Eczacıbaşı Art Dictionary), 2000. “Herhangi ya da bir New York Zamanı” (A-NY-TIME) Arredamento Mimarlık, 1998/09, pp.110-113. “Mimari Hafıza ve Yalman Evi” (Architectural Memory and Yalman House), Arredamento Mimarlık, 1998/09, pp.118-119. “Kenneth Frampton - Esra Akcan” (Interview with Kenneth Frampton), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1997/11, pp.42-48. (also in English) “John Hejduk Esra Akcan’la Konuşuyor” (Interview with John Hejduk), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1997/06, pp. 70-73. “Kayıp Yüzler, Ağlayan Melekler - John Hejduk” (Lost Faces, Crying Angels - John Hejduk), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1997/06, pp. 66-69. Partial Editing of Identity Legitimation Ethics, Proceedings of the Second Symposium of Architecture in Turkey, October, 7-9, 1993, Ankara: Chamber of Architects, 1997. “Mimarlığımızda Yer-Kimlik Ilişkisi ve Içerik Sorunu” (Place and Content in Contemporary Turkish Architecture), Kimlik Meşruiyet Etik (Identity Legitimation Ethics), Proceedings of the Second Symposium of Architecture in Turkey, October 7-9, 1993, Ankara: Chamber of Architects, 1997. “Saklı Figürden Aleni Figüre. Disneyland’in Öğrettikleri” (From Hidden to Literal Figure. Learning From Disneyland), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1996/12, pp. 73-80. “Dekonstrüksiyon ve Mimarlık” (Deconstruction and Architecture), 70 Sonrası Mimarlık - Tartışmalar (Post -70 Architecture - Discussions), Ed. Abdi Güzer, Ankara: Mimarlar Derneği Yayınları, 1996, pp45-52. “Habitat II’ye Türkiye’den Bakmak - Söyleşi” (Looking at Habitatt II from Turkey - Discussion), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1996/4, pp.88-96. “Geçmişte Kaldığı Çağda Sanat. Bir Heidegger Yorumu” (Art in an Age of its Own Oblivion. An Interpretation on Heidegger), Defter, 25, 1995, pp.65-87. Reprınted in: Stüdyolar, July 1996, pp.18-27. “Imgenin Iki Yüzü” (Two Faces of the Image), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1995/7-8, pp.73-77. “Sanat ve Anıyeri. Ikinci Yıl Çalışması” (Art and Memorial. Second Year Studio Work), Stüdyolar, 1994-1995, pp.62-71. “Iletişim ve Tüketim Toplumunda Mekansal Farklılığa Ait Çelişkiler” (Contradictions on Spatial Difference in the Information and Consumer Society), Toplum Bilim, 64, 1994, pp.39-53. “Tange Üzerine Yazışmalar” (Correspondences on Tange), with Ş. Yalınay, Berin Gür, Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1994/11, pp. 69-73. “Nedenselliğin Mimarlığı” (Architecture of Reasonability), with H. Zelef, Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1994/6, pp.79-81. “Sanatın ve Mimarlığın Göreli Özerkliği/Özgürlüğü Üzerine” (On the Relative Autonomy/Freedom of Art and Architecture), Mimarlık, 257, 1994, pp.21-22. “Yorum: Moore” (Commentary: Moore), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1994/4, pp.95-96. “Dışavurumculuk ve Ötesi” (Expressionism and Beyond), Arredamento Dekorasyon, 1994/2, pp.88-93. “Yorum: Sempozyumdan Aksedenler” (Commentary: Reflections from the Symposium), Mimarlık, 255, 1993, pp.35-6. “Ağa Han Mimarlık Misyonu ve Demir Evler” (Aga Khan Architectural Mission and Demir Houses), with C. Çinici, Mimarlık, 252, pp.50-51. English Version Published in Selections from International Press, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1993. “Yayın Tanıtma: Mimarlar Yarışıyor” (Book Review: Architects in Competition), Mimarlık, 251, 1993, pp.38-42. Exhibitions1st Architectural Festival of İstanbul, Darphane, October 2004, İstanbul. Invited Architect: “(Land)Fill İstanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City” Official Invitee of the German Pavilion for the 9th International Architecture Biennale of Venice, September 12, 2004 – November 7, 2004. Urban Flashes-Istanbul Exhibition. Garanti Galeri, June-July 2004, İstanbul. Invited Artist: “(Land)Fill İstanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City” Cem Culture House for Alevis Architectural Competition, Exhibition of Winning Entries, İstanbul, 1996. Winning Entry with Mualla Erkılıç (Special Mention) Memorial for Artists Burned in Sivas Competition, Exhibition of Entries with Honorarium, Ankara 1994 Conferences, Symposiums“Translation Beyond Language: Intertwined Histories of Modern Residential Architecture,” Getty Research Institute, May 4, 2009, Los Angeles, USA. “Martin Elsaesser and an Alternative Vision for Mass Housing” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 1-5, 2009, Pasadena, USA. Participation in “Art and Transnationalism” Forum, Art Journal Forum at CAA, February 26, 2009, Los Angeles, USA. “Environment for Architecture: From Science Metaphor to Ecology,” Two-Phase Clark-Getty Conference on Art History and Environment, October 10-11, Williamstown, USA; February 29-21, 2009, Los Angeles, USA “History of Possibility: The Discarded Cases of German-Turkish Exchanges in Housing,” November 21, 2008, Department of Architecture, Florida International University "Visual Representation for Historical Research. Perspectives from Art and Architecture," Paper presentation and round table participation in EUWOL Symposium, January 23-26, 2008, Tours, France. “Bahçelievler” Keynote address at Middle East Technical University Doctoral Research Symposium, December 24, 2007, Ankara, Turkey. “Spaces, Words, Traces: War and Memory Transference," Cold War Culture Symposium, May 4-5, 2007, Columbia University, New York. Organization of “Core Education in the Twenty-First Century” March 23-24, 2007, Columbia University, New York. “Manfredo Tafuri and Critical Practice in Weimar Germany,” Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting, April 26-29, 2006, Savannah. “Melancholy as Object: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul,” World Literature Today, Puterbaugh Conferences, University of Oklohoma, April 18-22, 2006, Norman “Distant Istanbul (dir. N.B.Ceylan),” Lecture at Berkeley University, February 27, 2006, Berkeley “Europe and Turkey: only neighbors?” Presentation and Panel Discussion at 18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals, November 4-7, 2005, Istanbul. “OffCenterS”. Presentation and Panel Discussion at the National Arts Club, with Michael Sorkin, Andrew Zago, Joshua Bolchover, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. Moderated by Kyong Park and Peter Lang, September 16, 2005, New York. “Modernity in Translation and the Contested Zones of Cultural Exchange,” Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting, April 6-10, 2005, Vancouver. “Traveling Theory: The Garden City Ideal from London to Ankara,” Lecture at Bryn Mawr College, March 31, 2005, Philadelphia. “Debate: Beyond “non-Western.” Rethinking the Professional Curriculum,” with Anthony Vidler, Gayatri Spivak, Sandhya Shukla, Hosted by Reinhold Martin, Columbia University Lecture Series, February 7, 2005, New York. “Modernity in Translation,” Lecture at University of Pennsylvania, January 24, 2005, Philadelphia. “(Land)Fill İstanbul. Twelve Scenarios for a Global City,” Presentation at Center for Architecture, March 10, 2004, New York, and at Columbia University, April 9, 2004, New York. “Modernity in Translation. Privacy and Spectacle in the Official Residences of Seyfi Arkan” ARC Lecture Series at Berkeley University, February 25, 2004. “Socialism and the House. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in Turkey,” CAA 92nd Annual Conference, February 18-21, 2004, Seattle. “Ten Utopian and Dystopian Scenarios for Global Istanbul,” Urban Flashes – Istanbul, September 6-11, 2003. “Globalization and Translation of the Avant-Garde,” Columbia University, GSAPP Lecture Series, July 9, 2002 “Americanization and Anxiety. Istanbul Hilton Hotel by SOM and Eldem,” ACSA International Conference, June 15-19, 2001, Istanbul “Modernization Melancholy Memory. The Culture and Politics of Vernacularism,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 18-22, 2001, Toronto Round table speaker in “Globalization – Trends in International Real Estate Investment and Development,” Director: Michael Buckley, The Columbia Real Estate Round Table, March 20, 2001, Columbia University, New York “Orientalism and Melancholy. Bruno Taut in the East,” 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000. Also accepted for ACSA International Meeting in Hong Kong, June 11-14, 2000. “Glass Symbolism, Experiential Transparency and Privacy in Maison de Verre,” Nominated and Chosen as representative of ACSA Regional Meetings in 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000. Originally presented in: 1999 ACSA West Central Regional Meeting, Fargo, September 24-26, 1999. “La Turquie Kemaliste” State, Architecture and Publicity,” MESA 99 Annual Meeting, Washington, November 19-21, 1999. Organization of 1999 Buell Dissertation Colloquium, May 15, 1999, Chief Organizer: Joan Ockman. Organization of Last Things Before the Last? Columbia University, Ph.D. Students Symposium, with David Rifkind, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, April 3, 1999. “Representation of Counter-Memory. Cem Culture House for Alevis,” Design Thinking Research Symposium at MIT, Boston, April 23-25, 1999. “Genealogy of Nationalism and the Memory of ‘Turkish House’,” Hypothesis 3, Symposium at Princeton University, Princeton, February 12-13, 1999. “Promoting Orientalism in the Orient. Contemporary Tourism (Entertainment?) in Turkey,” Noon Lecture at Columbia University, New York, April 17, 1997. “Dekonstrüksiyon ve Mimarlık” (Deconstruction and Architecture), 70 Sonrası Mimarlık - Tartışmalar (Post -70 Architecture - Discussions), Lecture Series at Architects’ Association, Ankara, March 29, 1995.
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