Prof. GÜVEN ARİF SARGIN

Academic Positions 5

2012 - Continues Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
2004 - 2012 Associate Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
2000 - 2004 Assistant Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
1998 - 2000 Lecturer PhD

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
1986 - 1998 Research Assistant

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

Managerial Experience 3

2017 - 2020 Dean

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
2015 - 2017 Dean

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
2007 - 2014 Head of Department

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

Non Academic Experience 4

2016 - 2017 Genel Kurul Ankara Delegesi

Tmmob Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi, Genel Kurul Ankara Delegesi
2012 - 2014 Merkez Yönetim Kurulu

Tmmob Mimarlar Odası, Merkez Yönetim Kurulu
2008 - 2010 Şube Yönetim Kurulu

Tmmob Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi, Şube Yönetim Kurulu
1990 - 1992 Araştırma Görevliliği

The University of Wisconsin Madison, Araştırma Görevliliği

Courses 11

Doctorate
CRITICAL THEORIES ON URBAN ARCHITECTURE

Advanced Architectural Design Research Studio II
Postgraduate
Advanced Studies on Urban Architecture: Graduate Research Studio

Social and Cultural Themes in Urban Architecture

Advanced Architectural Design Research Studio I

Politics and Space
Undergraduate
First Year Basic/Introduction to Architectural Design Studios

First Year Basic/Introduction to Architectural Design Studios

Fourth Year Architectural Design Studios

Architectural Design Studios

Landscape Architecture

Supervised Theses 116

MINING LANDSCAPES: TRACING THE SOCIO-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN RURAL TERRAINS – OVACIK, TÜRKİYE

Baş Bütüner F., Sargın G. A. (Co-Advisor)

D.YARAŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2024
Construction of a system of meaning in-between modernity and (mass) housing: TOKİ

Aral H. E., SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor)

N.BÖLÜKBAŞ(Student), Doctorate, 2024
The transformation of architectural education under neoliberalism: the precarization of architectural labor in Turkey between 2002-2024

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

K.YILMAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2024
A critical assessment of 2038 Ankara Environmental Plan: Ghost urbanization

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

E.NUR(Student), Postgraduate, 2024
A Critical Inquiry on The Mode of Production of Informal Fabric and Their Reflections on Built Environments: A Romani Community at Izmir Ege Neighbourhood

Sargin G. A. (Advisor)

A.Melih(Student), Doctorate, 2023
Reconceptualizing "archetype": A critical reading of "people's libraries" in the context of Turkey's modernization(s)

Sargin G. A. (Advisor)

B.ERDAL(Student), Doctorate, 2023
RE-VISITING GECEKONDU: BETWEEN HABITAT AND HABITING; LEARNING FROM INFORMAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS SUBJECT SINCE THE 1960s

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

A.FAHRİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
A critical reading of urban space: The role of military institute in socio-spatial organization of postcolonial Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

S.FAROOQ(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
A critical reading of contemporary architectural literature on form and function: The object of desire in analyzing conceptual, discursive and contextual shifts since the 1960s

, Sargin G. A. (Advisor)

E.YOLTAY(Student), Doctorate, 2023
From hippodrome to Millet Bahçesi: A sociospatial history of public sphere in Ankara, 1930-2021

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

A.ÜLKE(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
A critical inquiry into migration through bodies: Van as a superdiverse city

Aral H. E., SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor)

B.ATEŞ(Student), Doctorate, 2023
Appropriation as an urban practice: A critical reading of don quixote social center of İstanbul, in 2013 and since then

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

F.FULYA(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
Mega-projects in production of nature in Türkiye: Socio-natural metabolism of İşkencedere Valley

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

S.ŞANLI(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
Creative destruction as a political apparatus in Tabriz's urban revitalization programs: Shahid Beheshti Square since the 1990s

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

S.ASADMOSAFFAR(Student), Postgraduate, 2023
YENİ KAMULUK VE KENT VATANDAŞLIĞI POST ENDÜSTRİYEL İSLAMABAD, PAKİSTAN

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

N.Afzal(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Guerilla art as a commoning practice: A socio-spatial tale of the bina, Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

İ.SENEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
CREATIVE EVOLUTION IN ARCHITECTURE: A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO NEW RELATIONS OF OBJECTILE, SUBJECTILE AND INTELLIGENT SPACES

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.ERİŞEN(Student), Doctorate, 2021
Rethinking gentrification in İstanbul through planetary urbanization

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

T.Eken(Student), Doctorate, 2020
Diverse landscapes, diverse works: reframing the urban transformation of Çinçin through muhtars, houseworkers, the usta, and the kabadayı

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

G.Aykaç(Student), Doctorate, 2020
Urban metabolism of i̇stanbul: Waterfronts as metabolized socio-natures between 1839 and 2019

Sargın G. A. (Advisor)

E.SERT(Student), Doctorate, 2020
Design Policy and Process through Infill Development

Balaban O., Sargın G. A. (Co-Advisor)

H.JAVANI(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Ideology of sustainable architecture: a critique

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

O.Lami(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Encapsulating the loci via hybrid modernity: The political syntax of post-colonial capitals, Islamabad and chandigarh

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

M.AHMED(Student), Doctorate, 2019
Ankara kentini 21. yüzyıl başında kent hakkı mücadeleleri üzerinden okumak

Uludağ Z., Sargın G. A. (Co-Advisor)

S.KAYA(Student), Doctorate, 2019
Mapping the spatial ideologies: the case of heki̇mhan mining settlement, Malatya

Aral H. E., SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

N.EVİRGEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
21.yy.'da Kamusal Alanın Değişen Dinamikleri ve Kamusal Alanlarda Kent Hakkı Meselesi Üzerine Düşünmek

Sargin G. A. (Co-Advisor), Uludağ Z.

S.Kaya(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Ideology, subject, architecture: The transformation of architectural theory and the architect-subject in the 21st century

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

R.ÇİĞDEM(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Socio-spatial disparities: The production of marginality within urban space of Tehran (1963-1979)

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

P.VALIZADEH(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Conceptualization of earth as the monocenter of the urban: A new orientation for architectural utopia of reterritorialized refugees

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

D.KUMARASLAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
An ontological inquiry on potentials of criticality and conceptualization of program in architecture

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.CEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
Atlas of urban design: Textual analysis and mapping of production of knowledge in Turkish context

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Y.ACAR(Student), Doctorate, 2017
New Babylon: Discrepancies of utopia and possibility of situationist architectures

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

G.DUYUL(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
The transformation of gecekondu phenomenon via visual and spatial narratives

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Ö.ÖZALP(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
Architecture, revolution and temporality: The Soviet avant-garde and the politics of modernism

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

G.DEMİROK(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
Queer space as an alternative to the counter-spaces in Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.YOLTAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Bordering practice and territoriality: Examining Islamabad and New Delhi

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

A.ARSALAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Re-reading of the pruitt-Igoe housing project (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) in the context of modernism

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

N.BÖLÜKBAŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
AUTONOMY OF ARCHITECTURE: ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMATION OF BODRUM BUILT ENVIRONMENT VIA DESIGN CODES

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

H.ÖZGÜL(Student), Doctorate, 2016
A critical evaluation of the urban transformation in Çukurambar, since the late 1980s

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

G.AJAZİ(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
Towards the spectacle: on the role of imagery in architectural representation

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.YERGİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Changing publicness of urban parks through time the case of Güvenpark, Ankara

Baş Bütüner F., Sargın G. A. (Co-Advisor)

A.YILMAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
A spatial impromptu: Green resistance by guerrilla gardening

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

B.ATEŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Programming mixed-use projects with changing urban dynamics and user profile

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.UĞUR(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Mapping subjective urban imagery: montage of movement-image and time-image –the case of Kızılay

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.Balkanay(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Modes of urbanization: Changing paradigms in architecture at urban scale

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.TÜRK(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Mosques of Ankara: objects of ideological representation since the 1950s /

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.Karaelmas(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
A new ontological approach to urban form: Towards a model of heterarchy

Sargın G. A. (Co-Advisor), Bilsel F. C.

E.TEMİZEL(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Mapping subjective urban imagery: Montage of movement-image and time-image-The case of Kizilay

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.BALKANAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Reconstruction of collective memory through spatial representations of Izmir waterfront, since the 1920s

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

P.YÜKSEL(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Commodification of “place” under late capitalism through transforming architectural practices

BİLSEL F. C. (Co-Advisor), SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor)

H.UTKU(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
A New ontological approach to urban form: towards a model of heterarchy /

BİLSEL F. C.(Co-Advisor), SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor)

E.Temizel(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Revisiting Constantinos Doxiadis’s entopia as a place theory

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

M.PAK(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Tracing the remnants of an ideological struggle on space: the case of julfa, Isfahan

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

P.VALIZADEH(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Becoming non- blasé: Slowness via urbanisation

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

B.ERDAL(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Modes of urbanization: changing paradigms in architecture at urban scale /

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.Türk(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
The critique of capitalist city, avant-gardism and situationist international as an alternative

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Ö.BURAK(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Tracing the remnants of an ideological struggle on space :

SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor), ZELEF M. H. (Co-Advisor)

P.Valizadeh(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Mosques of Ankara: Objects of ideological representation since the 1950s

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.KARAELMAS(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Shopping malls in Ankara as the new “non-places” of the generic capital city

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.ERİŞEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Sayfiye to banlieue: Suburban landscape around Anatolian railways, from mid-nineteenth century to the World War II

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.SALAH(Student), Doctorate, 2013
A Benjaminian re-reading of the “urban image” at the verge of the 21st century

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.BİNBOĞA(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
From Bauhaus to IKEA: Integration of mass production, standardization, modularization and claim of universality with capitalist mode of production

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.İŞBİLEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
From Bauhaus to Ikea : integration of mass production, standardization, modularization and claim of universality with capitalist mode of production [

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.İşbilen(Student), Postgraduate, 2012
The transformation of public space: city squares as locations for power struggle - the case of Tehran

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Z.Soltani(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Rereading urban form in Tehran since the 1920s in the case of Valiasr Street

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

N.RAASSİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Literary spaces as the representation of dominant ideologies in the context of dystopias written between 1920 and 1950

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

R.ÇİĞDEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
The transformation of public space: City squares as locations for power struggle-The case of Tehran (1934-2009)

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Z.SOLTANİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
An inquiry on social housing program for working-class: Karl Marx Hof in Vienna

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

İ.SUDAŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Modern urban utopias and the case of Dubai

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.SOYDEMİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Beyond built form: The Colosseum

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

Y.Çetin(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
On critique of architectural image: Reading Jean Baudrillard through Jean Nouvel

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

İ.USLU(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
An inquiry on bourgeois conception of social housing program for working-class: Karl Marx Hof in Vienna

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

İ.Sudaş(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Urban transportation: Sections at minus

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.EROL(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
Becoming a neo-liberal city: Ankara North Entrance Urban Transformation Project

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

N.AYŞE(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
Architecture, ideology, representation: Party headquarters as a new mode in representing power since the 1980's

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

F.YILMAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Architecture, ideology, representation : party headquarters as a new mode in representing power since the 1980’s

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

F.Yılmaz(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Cinematic representation of gecekondu as an urban memory

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

V.SEÇKİNER(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
Density as a transformative power of urbanization: Milletvekili lojmanları/Park Oran konutları

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.ÖZLEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
The architect : “Vedat Dalokay” as a social agent

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

B.SUZAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Transformation of urban sphere: Hacıbayram Square and its environment, Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.YARDIMCI(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Transformation of an urban vector: Eskişehir highway, Ankara

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

T.TEKİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Impacts of policies after 1980 on public buildings: The ?Unoccupied? buildings of Emlakbank, Sümerbank and TEKEL in Ulus in Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Ö.ŞAHİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Istanbul: An urban panopticon

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Ö.ÖZDEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
The role of design brief in urban design competitions

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.Kabal(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Urban transformation of a socialist city: A case study of East Berlin-Alexanderplatz

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

D.NAZLI(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Spatial memory of electrification in early republican capital, Ankara

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

Ö.PELEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
Designing a new architectural program: The norms and attributes of regional airports; Kütahya-Afyonkarahisar-Uşak

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

A.APAYDIN(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
Remembering and forgetting in the funerary architecture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: The construction and maintenance of national memory

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

C.SAMUEL(Student), Doctorate, 2007
Graffiti and urban space in İstanbul

SARGIN G. A. (Co-Advisor), ERDOĞAN N. (Co-Advisor)

H.ÖZLEM(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
Locating the structure-agency dichotomy in architecture: Workers' club as a type of social condenser in the soviets 1917-32

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

H.İSBEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
Locating the structure-agency dichitimy in architecture : workers' club as a type of social condenser in the Sovites 1917-32

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

H.İsben(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
The transformation of urban space at the conjunction of the old and new districts: The city of Aleppo

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.ARAS(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Production of space in the post earthquake region: three cases from Düzce

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.Demirel(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
A historical and social analysis of an urban transformation: Akay junction in Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Ç.SÖNMEZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Spatial transformations of the waterfront-as an urban frontier case study : Durres a port city

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

V.Koçi(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
"Production of space" in the post earthquake region: Three cases from Düzce

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

S.DEMİREL(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Urban spaces re-defined in daily practices: The case of "Minibar", Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

D.ALTAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
Ankara hippodrome: The national celebrations of early Republican Turkey, 1923-1938

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

D.ÖZDEMİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
Urban spaces re-defined in daily prectices : the case of "minibar", Ankara

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

D.Altay(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
The transformative role of representational media within the context of contemporary housing: The gated enclaves of Ankara and consumer culture

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

A.ÖDEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
Re-reading 'the Jansen plan': The early republican project of modernity within man-nature relationship

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

G.Karamustafa(Student), Postgraduate, 2003
Deterritorialization and new approaches to urban space

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

O.KARAMAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2003
Re-reading 'The Jansen Plan': The early republican project of modernity within man nature relationship

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

G.KARAMUSTAFA(Student), Postgraduate, 2003
Locating Thirdspace in the specifities of urban: A case study on Saturday Mothers, in İstiklal street Istanbul

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.KOCABIÇAK(Student), Postgraduate, 2003
Searching for the avant-garde in the Turkish context: Bacteriology and Chemistry Building of Hıfzısıhha Institute

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

K.KILINÇ(Student), Postgraduate, 2002
Reading Manfredo Tafuri: Architecture and utopia-design and capitalist development

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

Z.TUNA(Student), Postgraduate, 2002
A Study on recent approaches in the production of public parks in western cities

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

B.ŞİMŞEK(Student), Postgraduate, 2002
Urban space and everyday life: Walking through Yüksel Pedestrian district (YPD)

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

T.AKIŞ(Student), Postgraduate, 2001
Constructing the enclosed garden in urban context : Jean Nouvel's fondation cartier

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

H.Günseli(Student), Postgraduate, 2001
Ulus square as a representational form of collective memory

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

İ.YALIM(Student), Postgraduate, 2001
Spatial transformations within the historical centre of İzmir: Representations of space and representational typologies

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

D.AYŞE(Student), Postgraduate, 2001
Constructing the enclosed garden in urban context: Jean Nouvel's Foundation Cartier

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

H.GÜNSELİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2001
The New urban segregation: The rise of gated enclaves in İstanbul

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

E.GÖNLÜGÜR(Student), Postgraduate, 2000
Hegemonic strugglewithin the reproduction of public space: Domination and appropriation in and of Kızılay square

SARGIN G. A. (Advisor)

B.BATUMAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2000

Academic and Administrative Experience

2012 - Continues Professor

2004 - 2012 Associate Professor

2000 - 2004 Assistant Professor

1998 - 2000 Lecturer PhD

1986 - 1998 Research Assistant

2017 - 2020 Dean

2015 - 2017 Dean

2007 - 2014 Head of Department

2016 - 2017 Genel Kurul Ankara Delegesi

2012 - 2014 Merkez Yönetim Kurulu

2008 - 2010 Şube Yönetim Kurulu

1990 - 1992 Araştırma Görevliliği

CRITICAL THEORIES ON URBAN ARCHITECTURE

Advanced Architectural Design Research Studio II

Advanced Studies on Urban Architecture: Graduate Research Studio

Social and Cultural Themes in Urban Architecture

Advanced Architectural Design Research Studio I

Politics and Space

First Year Basic/Introduction to Architectural Design Studios

First Year Basic/Introduction to Architectural Design Studios

Fourth Year Architectural Design Studios

Architectural Design Studios

Landscape Architecture