PUBLICATIONS
Books
Unclosure: Design for a Workstation at Uluburun (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2011). On Amazon.
Book Chapters
“Semper’s Communicative Tectonics and the Turkish Pavilion at the Crystal Palace,” in Communicative Construction (tentative book title), D. Leatherbarrow and SHI Y., eds. (forthcoming)
"City as Compass and Calendar: Le Corbusier's Radiant City and the Apartment Building 24NC," in Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and Against the City, D. Leatherbarrow, ed. (London: Artifice Press, 2023). Order.
"İlk Filozoflar ve İlk Elementler: Presokratik Felsefede Arkhe Kuramları ve Mimarlıktaki Yansımaları" [First Philosophers and First Elements: Theories of Arkhe in Presocratic Philosophy and Their Expressions in Architecture] in Felsefede Mimarlık [Architecture in Philosophy], H. T. Akarsu and N. Erdoğan, editors (forthcoming).
"Göklere Kulak Veren Mimarlık: Robert Silverberg’in Cam Kule’si" [Eavesdropping on the Universe: Robert Silverberg's Tower of Glass], in Çağdaş Dünya Edebiyatında Mimarlık [Architecture in Contemporary World Literature], H. T. Akarsu, N. Erdoğan and Z. T. Özbursalı, editors (İstanbul: YEM Yayın, 2021), 181-185. Publisher's page.
“On Moderation: The Ancient Virtue and its Reception in Architectural Theory,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Reception of Classical Architecture, N. Temple, A. Piotrowski, and J. M. Heredia, editors (London: Routledge, 2019). Publisher's page.
“Archaic Forces in the Modern House: Continuity of Ancient Themes in the Work of Le Corbusier,” in A Swiss in the Mediterranean: The Cyprus Talks on Le Corbusier, A. Öztürk and A. Yücel, editors (Istanbul: Cyprus International University Press, 2015), 119-128.
“Dünyaya Bakmak: Kosmosla Olan Symmetria'nın Devamı İçin Theoria” [Seeing the World: Theoria for Sustaining Symmetria with the Cosmos], in Mimarlık ve Özerklik [Architecture and Autonomy], E. Ceylan and E. Duyan, editors (Istanbul: DAKAM Publications, 2015), 10-20.
Peer-reviewed and Research Articles
"Modern Rhythms: The Five Points of a New Architecture of Concordance," Architectural Journal 637 (December 2021): 20-26. Abstract.
“Güneş Kenti” Soli Pompeiopolis: Antik Kent Yerleşim Planının Yönelimi ve Bağlamsal İlişkileri Üzerine” ["Sun City" Soli Pompeiopolis: On the Orientation and the Contextual Relationships of the Ancient Urban Settlement Plan], in ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 5 (December 2013): 66-70.
“Taşı Taş Gibi, Ahşabı Ahşap Gibi Göstermek:” Frank Lloyd Wright'ın Malzeme Teorisi" ["Let the Stone Appear as Stone, Wood as Wood:" Frank Lloyd Wright's Theory of Materials], in METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, v. 29 n. 1 (2012), 321-338. (peer-reviewed). Full text.
“Voir le monde: la theoria pour soutenir la symmetria avec le cosmos,” in Laboratoire Analyse Architecture, invited online publication by Université catholique de Louvain Faculté d’architecture, d’ingénierie architecturale, d’urbanisme, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (June 2012). Translated into French by Olivier Masson and Isabelle Rillaerts. Full text.
“Malzemenin “Doğası” ve Bağlamsal Nitelikleri Üzerine: La Tourette Manastırı’nda Betonun Binbir Yüzü” [On the “Nature” and the Contextual Qualities of the Material: Thousand Faces of Concrete at the Monastery of La Tourette], in Betonart 29 (Winter 2011): 62-69.
“Mut Karacaoğlan Çınaraltı Parkı Meydan Düzenleme Projesi,” [Mut Karacaoğlan Çınaraltı Park Renovation Project], in ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 1 (December 2011): 53-56. (With S. Burat)
“Mustafa Arif Yavuz Evi Mimari Biçimlenmesi [Architectural Articulation of Mustafa Arif Yavuz House], in ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 1 (December 2011): 49-52. (With M. Ucar)
“The Hot and the Cold, the Dry and the Wet: ‘Atmospheric Qualities of Materials’ in the Work of Peter Zumthor,” in Jian Zhu Shi 139 (June 2009): 31-37. Translated into Chinese by Shi Yong-gao and Hu Xin.
“Revealing the Forces of the ‘Atmosphere’: Material Encounters in the Architecture of Peter Zumthor,” in Jamini International Arts Quarterly, vol. 4 n.2 (Jan. 2008): 24-32. Special Issue on “The New Architecture.”
Conference Proceedings
"Layered Horizons of the City: The Case of Soli Pompeiopolis," in Proceedings of AACCP 2018 Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning- Multi-Layered Settlements, S.Burat, G.Verdiani, P. Cornell (Editors), (USA: Lulu.com, 2020), 113-120. Link to the proceedings.
“From Venustas to Aesthetics: On Beauty in Architecture,” in Proceedings of the 2nd Turkish Congress of Aesthetics: Changing Geographies, Changing Paradigms, Mersin, 2013. (Scheduled to be published in 2017.)
“Creation of Form or Expression of the Material’s Nature? A Longstanding Duality in Architecture,” in ARCHTHEO '15: IX. Theory and History of Architecture Conference Proceedings (Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing, 2015), 572-580.
"Ancient Horizons of Contemporary Architecture: Form or Force?," in Mersin in History Colloquium 4 – Mediterranean Cities: Antiquity as Future (2013: Mersin University Publications , 2013), 145-158.
“Seeing the World: Theoria for Sustaining Symmetria with the Cosmos,” in Theory for the Sake of Theory, ARCHTHEO '11 Theory and History of Architecture Conference Proceedings, v. 1 (Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing, 2011), 62-72.
"Mustafa Arif Yavuz Evi” [Mustafa Arif Yavuz House], DOCOMOMO_tr Türkiye Mimarlığında Modernizmin Yerel Açılımları VII. Poster Sunuşları Bildiri Özetleri Kitapçığı [Abstracts of the Posters Presented at the 7th Meeting of DOCOMOMO Turkey: Local Perspectives of Modernity in Turkish Architecture], 2011, 60-61 (With M. Ucar and S. Konak)
Editorial Work
Founding editorial board member, ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter (since June 2011).
Editor, Bulletin of the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (weekly, Feb. 1999 – July 1999).
Other Publications
"Sıcak Bir Sonbaharın Ardından: İklim Krizi ve Mersin" [In the Wake of a Warm Autumn: Climate Crisis and Mersin], interview given to the Journal of Mersin Chamber of Maritime Trade (published in December 2019 issue, year 28, no. 331, p. 39-43). Full text.
Editörden,” ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 7 (Dec. 2015): 25 (editorial message to the issue theme “Mersin from the Perspective of Healthy Cities - Happy Cities”).
“Mersin Üniversitesi ve Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi Mimarlık Bölümlerinden Çevresel Farkındalık Temalı Çalıştaylar Dizisi” [Series of Workshops on the Theme of Environmental Awareness from the Architecture Departments of Mersin and Cyprus International Universities], ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 7 (Dec. 2015): 8-10.
“Kentin Mekânsal Öyküleri Sinema ve Mimarlık Atölyesi II" [Spatial Narratives of the City – Cinema and Architecture Workshop II], ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 6 (Jan. 2015): 20-21.
“ODA'dan,” (From ODA), ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 2 (March 2012): 1 (editorial message).
“Kentin Mekânsal Öykülerinin Sinemasal Temsili" [Spatial Narratives of the City as Represented in Cinema], ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter 2 (March 2012): 28-32.
“Neden ODA?” [Why THE ROOM?], editorial message to the inaugral issue of ODA Journal of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter (December 2011).
“En Küçük Yapı Öğesinin Yaşamı Üzerine Senaryolar, Uyarlamalar ve Doğaçlamalar” [Scenarios, Adaptations, and Improvisations on the Life of the Smallest Building Unit], Betonart 28 (Fall 2010): 9-10.