Faculty of Architecture

The international symposium organized by the IKU Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture has started on March 24, 2022, Thursday, online. The symposium, in which the opening speeches are made by Assist. Prof. Elif Altınok Çalışkan, Rector Consultant, in the name of IKU Rector, Prof, Dr. Neslihan Dostoğlu, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Prof. Dr. Esin Kasapoğlu, Head of the Department of Architecture, Assoc. Prof. Zühre Yıldırım, Head of the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Architecture, focuses on the new dialogues in the architecture education and practice.

With the support of Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Architecture, an online event was organized by AssiaX-G100 Design & Lifestyle Community, in order to bring different country representatives and all the young talents on “March 8 International Women’s Day.” The main theme of the event titled “Empowering the Young Woman Talents in Design” was “sustainability, durability and biologic diversity.”

With the collaboration of the Faculty of Architecture, Architecture Club and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Club, the event titled “Architects and Interior Architects are On the Stage” on March 2, Wednesday between 14.00-16.00. In the event, in which Akıngüç Auditorium and Arts Center was the homeownership, the students who were valedictorians and who earned the awards in the contests were presented with their certificate of achievements. The ceremony ended with IKU Orchestra’s performances.

A meeting has organized in order to introduce the Labor Agreement signed by the Faculty of Architecture between Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) and Deutsche Management Akademie Niedersachsen (DMAN) to our Faculty of Architecture students, with the participation of our Rector. The meeting, in which the 3rd and 4th grade students from the Department of Architecture and the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design attended, held at 11.00 on Monday, February 28, 2022 at the Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall.

Within the scope of the "Design Competition" organized after the signing of the cooperation protocol between the Rectorate of TR Istanbul Kültür University and MODOKO; A workshop was held between 7-9 February with the participation of MODOKO Management. MODOKO Board Member İrfan Çimen, MODOKO General Manager Abdurrahim Erdoğan, MODOKO Advertising Manager Serap Entürk and MODOKO Senior Art Director Hümeyra Sarıal were present at our university on the first day of the workshop.

In order to support the creation of creative and innovative solutions focused on biotechnology and biological sciences and the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between young people studying architecture and design and professionals who believe in lifelong learning, Kale Design and Art Center (KTSM) is launching the “Sustainable Solutions Inspired by Nature: Architecture and Design Perspective Program”. Applications for the program, which will be implemented with the support of Kalebodur, started as of January 19th. 

A brief is organized by the Prof. Dr. Gülce Öğrüç Ildız, Secretary of Technology and Project Support Unit & Coordinator of Scientific Research Projects with the participation of the Faculty of Architecture’s academic staff. In the brief, which was conducted on January 20, 2022, Thursday at 13.00, Prof. Dr. Gülce Öğrüç Ildız made a presentation including the terms of application, what must be done for application and the supports to get. The brief ended with answering the questions of academic staff.

There were meetings held in various subjects in order to realize a collaboration between Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Architecture and Fatih Municipality. The process which has started with the visitation of Fatih Municipality to IKU Faculty of Architecture on January 19, 2022 regarding the Istanbul Historical Peninsula, continues thrivingly.

The award ceremony of the Student Competition for the Public Open Spaces Idea Project at MODOKO, held among the students of the Faculty of Architecture, was held on Friday, January 14, 2022 at MODOKO.

The Academic Board of Department of Architecture is held with the participation of our rector on January 12, 2022, Wednesday at Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall. After the presentation of the dean of our faculty Prof. Dr. Neslihan Dostoğlu which evaluated the faculty since its establishment and the covered the problems and future goals, the opinions and suggestions of academics of Department of Architecture and Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design are evaluated by our Rector.