Instructor: Sibel Bozdogan and Cemal Kafadar Course: STAGING THE CITY: URBAN FORM AND PUBLIC LIFE IN ISTANBUL Students: Sera Tolgay and Maria Letizia Garzoli
Transformation and Persistence of Public and Private Edges along the Bosphorus Shoreline: Tracing the Spatial Genealogy of Ortakoy’s...
Instructor: Course: Students: Alexandra Courcoulas
AN INTERACTIVE VISUAL HISTORY OF TOPHANE
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After an initial auction was nullified by the Turkish state in 2005, on May 16, 2010 it was announced that Dogus Holding – with a $702 million dollar bid –...
This project is an attempt to map the architectural sites created by Armenian architects in Istanbul, primarily during the late Ottoman period. Its final incarnation represents...
Instructor: Sibel Bozdogan and Cemal Kafadar Course: STAGING THE CITY: URBAN FORM AND PUBLIC LIFE IN ISTANBUL Students: XIN CHEN
Gülhane Park is a historical urban park in the Eminönü district around the Golden Horn of Istanbul. It is located adjacent to and on the grounds of the Topkapi Palace,...
As part of the Istanbul research seminar excursion, funded by the Harvard Mellon Initiative and guided by the photographer Serkan Taycan, Harvard students as well as Professors Eve Blau, Erik Ghenoiu, Sibel Bozdogan, Murat Guvenc, Ozlem Genel, and Max Hirsh visited the ‘Second Bosporus’ project...
Our priority for this trip was collaborative, multidisciplinary research, with a presentation of initial findings at the trip’s end. As a group, our academic specializations are as varied as our personal connections to the city, but we found ourselves drawn to many of the same points of contrast: the...
Our day began at SALT, a not-for-profit cultural institution, research center and archive located in the former Imperial Ottoman Bank. There Edhem Eldem of Boğaziçi University gave a highly apropos lecture on the historical thoroughfare of Ottoman banking (the very street we overlooked), ...
We began our day with a former student of Professor Bozdogan, architect and artist Neyran Turan, who discussed her multimedia immersive art exhibition, Bogaz (“Strait”) – a sharply satirical commentary on development, conservation, and Istanbul’s urban fabric that included video and ...
We gathered near the historic Pera Palace Hotel, a short stroll from our residence, the equally storied Grande Londres Hotel. We crossed the Golden Horn and walked to Kadir Has University, which had graciously authorized its Istanbul Studies Center, directed by Murat Güvenç, to host our research...
