bahcesehir university architecture & design

international summer academy

int.ist is a three week summer school on Istanbul’s interior spaces offered in the summer of 2009. It focuses on the analysis and the interpretation of the rich and diverse spatial heritage of a multi-cultural city. Istanbul is the cultural capital of Europe and it boasts a variety of world-renowned buildings with masterly designed and meticulously crafted interior spaces.  Its unique urban fabric offers possibilities for studying the relationship between interiors and overall building mass and envelope.

int.ist 2009 summer school will be comprised of three independent units:

·         Sacred Interiors

·      Converted Spaces

·      Bosphorus Mansions

The lecture sessions will be conducted at Bahçeşehir University, which is located at the heart of the city, on the European side of the Bosphorus. Lectures will be followed by site visits for on-the-spot teaching for contextualizing the material being taught in class. The location of the campus offers gorgeous views of the Bosphorus and the Seraglio, and provides easy access to many Ottoman Palaces, cultural centers and major exhibition centers.

ist.int 3001 - sacred interiors - 3 credits

This unit includes the analysis of major religious buildings, building complexes, and related structures belonging to the three main creeds represented in Istanbul - Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Istanbul boasts close to two-and-a-half millennia of history, spanning the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican eras. Accordingly, the city’s rich heritage of religious architecture includes countless examples of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Churches, mosques from all epochs as well as the finest synagogues. In this unit, emphasis will be on design concerns such as spatial proportions of interiors, spatial character and space-defining elements, surface treatment and embellishments, roofing choice, light, color, and texture.

ist.int 3002 - converted spaces - 3 credits

Functional lives of buildings, more often than not, are shorter than their physical and cultural lives. Obsolete and derelict buildings, given the due care for their conversion and renovation, may successfully turn out to be masterpieces, for present-day modes of utilization. The planning of this unit is based on the premise that spatial conversion of buildings falls within the domain of interior design.

ist.int 3003 – bosphorus mansions - 3 credits

One of the distinctive architectural characteristics of Istanbul is the spectacular and unique residential structures lying on the shores and hills of Bosphorus. Within the scope of the course distinctive examples of yali–waterfront mansions-, kasir–hunting palaces-, köşk–inland mansions-, and waterfront Ottoman palaces will be visited and their interior spaces will be analyzed and discussed.

Ahmet Eyüce, Prof. Dr.

Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design

B.Arch, METU

M.Arch, METU

PhD, EU 

Ali Çiçek, Asst. Prof. Dr.

Chairman, Dept. of Interior Arch. & Environmental Design

Int.Ist Program Coordinator

B.Arch, Academy of Fine Arts

M. Arch, Academy of Fine Arts

PhD, Mimar Sİnan University

Elçin Tezel, Asst. Prof. Dr.

B.A., Industrial Design, METU

MFA, Interior Arch. & Environmental Design, Bilkent University

Ph.D. Interior Arch. & Environmental Design, Bilkent University

Sezin Tanrıöver, Asst. Prof. Dr.

BA, Interior Architecture, Bilkent University

MFA, Interior Architecture, Bilkent University,

Ph.D. BS in Architecture, METU  
Post-Doctoral Research, London Southbank University

Nilay Kayaalp, TA

B.Arch, METU

MBA, University of San Francisco

M.Arch, YTU

Işıl U. Atınışık, TA

B. Arch, Izmir Institute of Technology

M.Arch, Bilgi University

Ph.D. Candidate, YTU

Students will be accomodated in Bahçeşehir University student housing units. Bed & breakfast will be provided in comfortable double rooms, in close proximity to the Beşiktaş Campus. For more information on housing units:

http://yurdum.bahcesehir.edu.tr/

IntIstPoster.pdf   IntIstFlyer.pdf