Prof. AYDAN BALAMİR

Academic Positions 1

1981 - Continues Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture

Non Academic Experience 8

1997 - Continues Associate Professor (Promotion)

METU, Associate Professor (Promotion)
1996 - 1997 Associate Professor (Title)

METU, Associate Professor (Title)
1985 - 1996 Instructor/Reader

METU, Instructor/Reader
1981 - 1985 Assistant

METU, Assistant
1984 - 1984 Instructor/Reader

UCBerkeley, Instructor/Reader
1979 - 1981 Architect (Parttime)

Bilirgil Mimarlık, Architect (Parttime)
1975 - 1981 Assistant

ADMMYO / ADMMA, Assistant
1974 - 1975 Architect

Çinici Mimarlık, Architect

Supervised Theses 47

Gender, domesticity and house in Turkey: Context and state of research

ÖZGENEL L. (Co-Advisor), BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

B.SARI(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Co-living experiments revisited, with two case studies from the Netherlands: Organization, community, and design dimensions in co-housing

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

S.KANYAR(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Urban-spatial analysis of mass housing environments: Mapping Batikent in search of alternatives to generic housing

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.KÜRELİ(Student), Doctorate, 2021
Station buildings in the history of Turkish railways : catalogue of buildings constructed between 1850s-1950s

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Ş.Sezginalp(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
Flexible housing in the 21st century: three contemporary case studies

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

M.Durmaz(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
Revisiting Interbau exhibition 1957 in Berlin, from the city of stone to the city of tomorrow

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

K.Farshchi(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
A Visual analysis of Libeskinds architecture: description of selected built works

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Y.Dehghan(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
A VISUAL ANALYSIS OF LIBESKIND'S ARCHITECTURE: DESCRIPTION

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Y.DEHGHAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
THE DESIGN OF NEW BUILDINGS IN HISTORICAL URBAN CONTEXT: FORMAL INTERPRETATION AS A WAY OF TRANSFORMING ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE PAST

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.BEKAR(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
A survey on plan typologies in apartment blocks: The case of Necatibey Neighbourhood, Ankara (1920s-1960s)

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

N.BÜŞRA(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
AN ALTERNATIVE HOUSING EXPERIMENT BY THE HOUSING ADMINISTRATION OF TURKEY: ANKARA, ERYAMAN STAGE III

BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor), CENGİZKAN A. (Co-Advisor)

G.GÜLER(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
An alternative housing experiment by the housing administration of Turkey: Ankara, Eryaman stage III.

BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor), CENGİZKAN A. (Co-Advisor)

G.Güler(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Tracking continuities between the modern and vernacular architecture: Courtyard in the west mediterranean architecture as a case study

GÜZER C. A. (Co-Advisor), BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor)

F.DENİZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
The impacts of state policies on social housing and urban identity: The case of Maskan Mehr in Urmia

SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor), BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor)

M.SHAHRI(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
The Impacts of state policies on social housing and urban identity: the case Maskan Mehr of Urmia

SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor), BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor)

M.Shahri(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
A comparative study of covered shopping spaces: Covered bazaars, arcades, shopping malls

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

N.TAGHIZADEHVAHED(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Historical continuity: Three modernist masters, their precedents and descendants

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

A.MOLLA(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Historical contuinity: three modernist masters, their precedents and descendants

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

A.Mollazadeh(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Urban parasites: Re-appropriation of interstitial spaces in architecture through the act of graffiti

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

S.YILDIRIM(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Use of traditional elements in contemporary mosque architecture in Turkey

BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor), PEKER A. U. (Co-Advisor)

Ö.ÜREY(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
From ?advertising architecture? to ?media façade?: Communication through digital display skin

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.AYDOĞAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Design guidelines for special education schools for children with autism design and appraisal of Private İlgi Special Education School

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Z.ÖKTEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Awarding architecture in Turkey: National architecture exhibition and awards program

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

N.DURMAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
From "Advertising Architecture” to “Media Façade" : communication through digital display skin

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.Aydoğan(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
An inquiry on the limits of multidisciplinary collaboration in design: Architectural competitions

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

G.ERDEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Regenerating the historical fabric: A proposal for a hybrid infill in Mardin

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

M.KAYASÜ(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Regrenerating the historical fabric : a proposal for a hybrid infill in Mardin

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

M.Kayasü(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Comparative study of the structure of traditional timber housıng in Turkey and Japan

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

S.MATSUSHİTA(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
Redevelopment processes of inner-city projects and architectural transformation in metropolitan city centers by the late 20th century: The case of Berlin after reunification

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

S.SELCEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2003
Design and production of industrialized houses. Prototype house design in the post earthquake period

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.AYDIN(Student), Postgraduate, 2002
Design and production of industrialized houses prototype house design in the post-earthquake period.

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.Aydın(Student), Postgraduate, 2002
Rethinking the urban block in Turkey: A study with reference to siedlung typologies and perimeter housing

CENGİZKAN A. (Co-Advisor), BALAMİR A. (Co-Advisor)

B.GÜL(Student), Postgraduate, 2002
Contemporary mosque architecture in Turkey

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

T.IŞIKYILDIZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2000
Tectonics of minimalism in contemporary architecture

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

D.ÜLGÜRAY(Student), Postgraduate, 1999
The Effects of cultural democratisation movement on the architecture of culture centers in the world and in Turkey

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

T.VURAL(Student), Postgraduate, 1999
Analysis of urban and architectural visions in recent science fiction films

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.Özgür(Student), Postgraduate, 1997
Designing new buildings in old settlements : a case study in Datça Mahallesi, Muğla

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Z.Durmuş(Student), Postgraduate, 1997
Designing new buildings in old settlements: A case study in Datça -Muğla

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Z.DURMUŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 1997
Compositional principles in classical, modern and postmodern lnguages of architecture: A Case study on mass and facde compositions of apartment buildings in Ankara

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Z.KORKMAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 1997
Compositional principles in classical, modern and postmodern languages of architecture : a case study on mass and façade compositions of apartment buildings in Ankara

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

Z.Korkmaz(Student), Postgraduate, 1997
Architecture and fashion: Indices of the Turkish westernization process throught the study of the fashionable in hotel architecture

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.SAVAŞKAN(Student), Postgraduate, 1996
Architecture and fashion: indices of the Turkish westernization process through the study of the 'fashionable' in hotel architecture

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

E.Savaşkan(Student), Postgraduate, 1996
A Study on the environmental quality problem in collective housing sellements in Turkey

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

M.ÇETİN(Student), Postgraduate, 1995
A study on the environmental quality problem in collective housing settlements in Turkey

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

M.Çetin(Student), Postgraduate, 1995
Architectural design of museum buildings -project proposal at METU-

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

T.ÜNAL(Student), Postgraduate, 1990
Social, cultural and architectural meaning of measum institution in relation with its conceptual backgrounds in history -proposal for a museum project at Dikmen valley-

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

L.TACAL(Student), Postgraduate, 1990
Social cultural and architectural meaning of museum institution in relation with its conceptual backrounds in history - Proposal for a museum project at Dikmen valley -

BALAMİR A. (Advisor)

L.Çiğdem(Student), Postgraduate, 1990

Academic and Administrative Experience

1981 - Continues Professor

1997 - Continues Associate Professor (Promotion)

1996 - 1997 Associate Professor (Title)

1985 - 1996 Instructor/Reader

1981 - 1985 Assistant

1984 - 1984 Instructor/Reader

1979 - 1981 Architect (Parttime)

1975 - 1981 Assistant

1974 - 1975 Architect