Prof. FATMA CÂNÂ BİLSEL

F. Cânâ Bilsel was graduated from the Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture in 1987, and obtained her Master of Architecture degree from the same department in 1989.

She continued her graduate studies in Sociology and Urban Geography at the University of Paris X – Nanterre and received a postgraduate D.E.A. degree in this field in 1990. She followed the joint program "Architecture and Urban Design: Theories and Applications," and obtained her second postgraduate diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville and Paris VIII University Institut Français d'Urbanisme in 1993. She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Paris X – Nanterre in 1996; her thesis research was awarded the degree of the “félicitations du jury.”  

Cânâ Bilsel has edited books, published book chapters and several articles in national and international journals in the fields of architecture and urban studies, history of urbanism, urban design, public spaces, and urban aesthetics. In 2010, she curated the exhibition "From the Imperial Capital to the Modern City of the Republic: Henri Prost's Istanbul Planning (1936-1951)" held by Suna İnan Kıraç Foundation Istanbul Research Institute, and she edited the book with the same title.

After she received the title of Professor at METU in 2011, she was invited as the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Mersin University, between 2012 and 2015. She served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at METU for two terms between 2018-2021 and 2021-2024. She is currently the coordinator of the Architecture Graduate Program, and teaches theory and design courses in architecture and urban design.