A. Ipek Tureli
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow:
History of Art & Architecture
Phone: +1 401 863 2303
Ipek_Tureli@brown.edu
Biography
Ipek Tureli's research and scholarship focus on architectural urban history, visual culture and comparative urbanism. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture at UC Berkeley with a dissertation titled "Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity." Prior to her doctoral studies, she obtained her professional degrees in architecture from the Architectural Association in London and Istanbul Technical University, and has experience in architectural practice in Turkey and the UK. She taught architectural design studio courses at Middle East Technical University in Ankara and at Berkeley, and architectural and urban history and theory courses at Berkeley. She is currently working on an edited book, titled Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, based on the dialog initiated at a conference she co-organized at Berkeley in the fall of 2008. She is also revising her dissertation for publication.
Awards
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 2008-2010
Citation of Special Recognition, Carter Manny Award Competition, Graham Foundation, 2007-8
Middle East Research Competition, History Foundation, Tunisia and Ford Foundation, 2006-7
Regents Intern Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, 2002-7
Eva Li Writing Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, 2007
Normative Time Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, 2005-6
Architecture Traveling Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, 2005
Mellon Research and Conference Travel Grants, CMES, Univ. of California Berkeley, 2003-2007
Marjorie Morrison Bursary, Architectural Association, 1997-8
Eileen Gray Bursary, Architectural Association, 1996-7
Architectural Association Bursary, Architectural Association, 1995-6
Affiliations
College Art Association
Society of Architectural Historians
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Middle East Studies Association
Chamber of Architects of Turkey
Architectural Association
Teaching
Dr. Tureli joined Brown University's Department of History of Art and Architecture, for a two year term, in the spring of 2009 during which she taught the lecture course [HIAA 0490] Urban Modernity and the Middle East, featured here. Her fall 2009 course on Miniature Worlds is inspired by an article she published in 2006 in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review and her interest in architectural historiography.
[HIAA 1890] From Worlds in Miniature to Miniature Worlds: Theming and Virtuality
Seminar, fall 2009.
This seminar surveys spaces of consumption that are organized around themes. Miniaturization, in particular, is a prevalent spatial strategy used in themed environments that range in form from historical quarters of cities that are reconfigured as miniature museum-cities to the culturally-themed hyperreal representations that emerge in multi-user virtual environments such as Second Life. What are the different kinds of experience these spaces offer to visitors immersed in their exhibitions? What are the appeals of themed environments and virtual reality technologies they employ? Posing such questions, this seminar explores theming and virtuality both historically and globally. Limited enrollment by consent of instructor. No prerequisites.
[HIAA 0490] Urban Modernity and the Middle East
Lecture, spring 2009; will be offered again in spring 2010.
This course explores the relationship between modernity and the city in the context of the Middle East. Its goal is to provoke historically grounded, critical and comparative thinking about cities during the modern period. The concept of urban modernity refers to the experience of modern city life and the associated cultural celebration of innovation. Middle Eastern cities, in contrast, have generally been studied privileging the role of the West, and through the lens of development. Organized in three parts, this course introduces theories of urban modernity, examines the genealogy of the study of Middle East cities, and then seeks to appropriate the lens of urban modernity to look at a number of cities in the Middle East. No prerequisites.
