She graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, getting the first graduate degree in 1993.
She completed her master degree, with the thesis on “The Effects of Cubism on Modernism and Post Modernism” in January 1996. She won an international competition on “Ph.D. Thesis in Architecture”, organized by BRI: Building Research & Information (The International Journal of Research, Development, Demonstration & Innovation) in United Kingdom, in 1999 with her thesis “Concept, Conception, Conceptual Analysis in Aesthetics and Architecture: Sampling on the Works of Architecture after 1980”.
She still works as a Professor at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, leading the “Architectural Design” and “Basic Design” Studios, teaching the courses of “Theory of Architecture”, “Theory of Art”, “Aesthetics”, “The Dialog of Art and Architecture in 20th Century”, “Cinema and Architecture” and is the author of many related works.

Kathryn Bedette, AIA, is an award-winning architect in the U.S. State of Georgia and a Professor of Architecture at Kennesaw State University in the United States. Kathryn currently serves as Associate Dean for Student Success and Accreditation for the College of Architecture and Construction Management at KSU and her professional experience includes a broad range of institutional projects as well as adaptive reuse office, retail and high-rise mixed-use projects. Professor Bedette’s research examines the conceptual frameworks used by architects and students of architecture in creating design priorities and making decisions that affect the built environment. This body of work is largely situated within architecture theory as it extends into the subject areas of design, diversity, equity & inclusion, advocacy, and pedagogy. She has published and presented internationally on posthumanist design and argues for the potential impact of architectural design informed by posthumanist philosophy.

With an accomplished record of advocating for the profession of architecture and the built environment, Kathryn Bedette served as Advocacy Chair on the AIA Georgia Board of Directors and as the 2018 President of AIA Georgia. As President, she led a successful national campaign to create a new leadership development pipeline that encourages a range of ethnically diverse women to pursue national American Institute of Architects leadership positions. She has also made a positive impact on the profession of architecture in multiple U.S. national professional service leadership roles and served as the NCARB Architect Licensing Advisor for Georgia from 2015 to 2021. Kathryn has been honored with the Emerging Voices Award, the AIA Atlanta James Gant Fausett, FAIA, Service to the Profession Award, and the AIA Georgia Educator of the Year Award. In 2018, she was named one of Engineering Georgia’s “100 Influential Women to Know”. Professor Bedette earned her B.S. in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she studied abroad at the Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Tolbiac, and her Master of Architecture from Arizona State University, where she studied abroad at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.

Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno is graduated in History from University of São Paulo (DH-FFLCH-USP, 1990) and Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP, 1988), as well as Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism from University of São Paulo (FAUUSP, 2001). Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, she has been teaching History of Urbanization and Urbanism since 2002, together with Professor Nestor Goulart Reis Filho, and developing research at the Architecture, Urbanization and Preservation Laboratory (LAP - USP) covering mainly the areas: history of urbanization and urbanism in Brazil; military architecture; military engineers; studies on material culture and cultural landscape; architects’ and engineers’ professional culture; history of cartography and heritage studies. Mainly book published: 1) Desenho e Desígnio: o Brasil dos engenheiros militares (Drawing and intention: Brazil and military engineers, 1500-1822) (EDUSP, 2011). She coordinated 2 dossiers on the history of urbanization in colonial Brazil for Anais do Museu Paulista (v. 20, 2012 and v. 29, 2021), and two further dossiers on cartography together with Iris Kantor (Anais do Museu Paulista, v. 17, n.1, 2009). Awarded CNPQ- PQ2 productivity grant since 2012 by Brazil’s federal government (CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Science and Technology Ministry), she is leader of CNPq Research Group "Landscape Archaeology”. Between 2007 and 2012 she was part of the team of the project Património de Origem Portuguesa no World: architecture and urbanism led by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation under the direction of José Mattoso. She participates also as consultant for the online portal (www.hpip.org). Between 2019-2022 she integrated with Alice Santiago Faria and Renata Malcher de Araújo the research project "TechNetEmpire: technical-scientific networks in the formation of the built environment in the Portuguese Empire (1647-1871)" funded by FCT.
Book - BUENO, B. P. S. Desenho e desígnio: o Brasil dos engenheiros militares (1500-1822). São Paulo: EDUSP/FAPESP, 2011. 456p. (Prêmio Jabuti - Indicação). Scholar (164 + 40 + 19)
Articles – BUENO, B. P. S. Introdução/ Cultura material e práticas sociais no Caminho do Viamão, Anais do Museu Paulista, 29, 1-9/ 1-87, 2021. (Dossiê Temático Org. Beatriz Bueno) Qualis A
Dossiê Anais Museu Paulista): v. 17 (n.1 e 2), 2004.
Dossiê Anais Museu Paulista): v. 20, 2012; v. 29, 2021.
Dossiê: História da Urbanização: v 29, 1-9/ 1-87, 2021.
Artigos Anais Museu Paulista: Dilatação dos confins, 17, 193-234, 2009(Google Scholar 77); Decifrando mapas, 12, 251-294, 2004 (Google Scholar 60); Tecido urbano e mercado imobiliário em São Paulo: metodologia de estudo com base na Décima Urbana de 1809, 13, 59-97, 2005 (Google Scholar 51); Do borrão às aguadas, 17, 111-153, 2009 (Google Scholar 40); Sistema de produção da arquitetura na cidade colonial brasileira, 20, 321-361,2012(Google Scholar 20).
Link: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9559902072428017
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http://www.researcherid.com/rid/M-3559-2017 - Publications: 144
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Carlos Machado e Moura (Porto, Portugal, 1982) is an architect (FAUP, 2006), postgraduate in Architectural Heritage (CEAPA-FAUP, 2013), PhD candidate (PDA-FAUP) and integrated researcher at the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP).

He is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of J–A Jornal Arquitectos (2022-24), the journal of the Portuguese Architects Association, and a guest lecturer of History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP ) and of Theory and Criticism at the School of Architecture, Arts and Design of the University of Minho (EAAD). In parallel, he is a consultant on windows and glass technology for Jofebar / panoramah!®.

His ongoing PhD research, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2015), focuses on the presence of comics and graphic narratives in architectural publications in the 1960s.

He also practices as an architect since 2008, either as a freelancer or at MAVAA, being co-author of works like the Social Housing in Rua da Vitória (Porto, Portugal, 2019-23) and the Primary and Nursery School of Sant'Albino (Montepulciano , Italy, 2010-16), which was published in several international magazines like Bauwelt and Casabella.

He co-organized several initiatives on Drawing (CEAU-FAUP, 2016-19) and was assistant curator of the "Physics of Portuguese Heritage" exhibition (DGPC/MAP, 2018-19) and the Open House Porto 2016 initiative. He also integrated the team responsible for curating the Portuguese Architecture Collection 2000-24 for Casa da Arquitectura (2023-24) and is currently preparing an exhibition on Manuel Correia Fernandes for the same institution.

Carlos regularly publishes articles and participates in conferences and seminars, being a co-author of the book Casas Quinhentistas de Castelo Branco (CMCB/Argumentum, 2008), editor of Building Views (Circo de Ideias, 2017) and Building Views on Alvar Aalto (panoramah!, 2019), and co-editor of Repository (nai010, 2023) and Físicas do Património Português (DGPC, 2019).

Alongside, he has been a working group leader of COST Action CA18126 "Writing urban places" (2019/23) and a researcher of "(EU)ROPA - Rise of Portuguese Architecture" (CES-UC, 2018/22).

His work has received several recognitions, including the 3rd edition of Premio Architettura Toscana (2022), the 16th edition of Prémio Tavora (OASRN, 2020), an honourable mention in Premio Architetto Italiano 2020 (CNAPPC) and the Award of Merit of AZ Awards (AZURE, 2019). He was also a finalist of the 1st edition of the European Collective Housing Award (EIIA/Arc en Rêve, 2024), the Bauwelt Award (2017), and PremisFAD Ephemeral Interventions (2018), besides being selected for PremisFAD International (2017).

Vjekoslava Sanković Simčić completed her architecture degree at the University of Sarajevo in 1969. She joined the program at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) at the University of Rome. In 1971, she finalized her graduate studies at ICCROM on the topic of the revitalization of the town of Počitelj, one of the major historical Ottoman-established sites of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Upon her return to Sarajevo in 1971,  she commenced her professional career in heritage preservation at the Institute for Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Her 1973 academic appointment at the Architecture Faculty at the University of Sarajevo provided opportunities for her to connect practice to teaching. In 2001, she was appointed a Professor of Architecture at the University of Sarajevo.

Vjekoslava Sanković Simčić’s work on heritage sites spanned decades and included a range of projects from large scale proposals for the revitalization of old towns such as Počitelj in Bosnia and Hercegovina (1971/73/81) and Korčula in Croatia (1970), to the restoration of historical houses.

Following the 1992/96 war in former Yugoslavia, she played an active role in the restoration of the damaged historic structures. Despite having been a signatory of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict since 1955, the 1992-96 armed conflict saw Yugoslavia’s cultural heritage degraded and significantly destroyed. In 2007, she initiated the establishment of the ICOMOS National Committee for the newly created state of Bosnia and Hercegovina and presided the committee from 2007 to 2019.
A recipient of numerous awards for her lifelong contribution, including: the 40 year Jubilee award for her contribution to the protection of the cultural heritage of Bosnia and Hercegovina awarded in 1976; the Conservation Society of Yugoslavia’s Medal for the protection of cultural heritage from in 1985; and the Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for the protection of the cultural heritage of Bosnia and Hercegovina in 2004. She is a member of various expert committees and the author of many scholarly and professional articles including the book Revitalization of heritage fabric – Integration of Old and New (Revitalizacija graditeljske baštine – Integracija staro-novo, NNP Naša riječ d.o.o., Sarajevo 2000).

I am an architectural researcher working for social change in everyday spaces. Focusing on the history and transformation of welfare state housing areas, my research deals with users’ everyday practices, normative frameworks for the built environment, and architectural paperwork.

Revealing techniques for combining social and technical expertise, I activate archives, documents, oral histories or other memory material that record often uncomfortable architectural histories of landscapes, buildings and structures associated with marginalisation. The challenge of dealing with pasts, presents and futures in democracies is complex and I therefore link architectural history, creative practice, and ethnographic strategies to deal with different and even contradictory perspectives and needs of different actors and ressources.

Recently:

* In the project (Im) possible Instructions: Inscribing use-value in the architectural design process, I activate archival research and ethnographic fieldwork strategies to develop caring techniques for new (speculative) practices (DFF/ Independent Research Fund Denmark GRANT_NUMBER: 9032-00006B - IPD).

* In the project Klager i praksis [Practicing Complaints], I question how architectural disciplines can make better use of social housing residents' sincere complaint and care labour. This creative practice research is funded by the Danish Arts Foundation and Dreyers Fond.

* I am visiting fellow at Newcastle University (2019-23); member of two NOS-HS networks on welfare state architecture and landscapes and the network Where are the Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture?; and member of the Society of Artists, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Further, I am active in Action Archive – a group of researchers and artists using collaborative methods and formats, such as witness seminars and exhibitions, to publicly bring together diverse actors around urban cultural, historical, and political issues.



I have taught landscape architecture, urbanism, architecture and art at universities in Denmark, Sweden and the UK since 2001.



For more info see personal website: www.bureaus.dk

Burak Asiliskender is a Professor of Architecture at Abdullah Gül University and the Dean of the School of Architecture. He has been also working as the Advisor to the Rector for Education. He was former -and founding- chair of the AGU Department of Architecture. He studies on architectural theory and design; space, place making, spaces and identities in transition, in particular. He has several publications on the architecture and identity, space and place concepts, transformations of space and cities. He has been involved in the design and implementation projects for the restoration and adaptive re-use of former Sümerbank Kayseri Textile Factory as AGU campus.

She graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, getting the first graduate degree in 1993.
She completed her master degree, with the thesis on “The Effects of Cubism on Modernism and Post Modernism” in January 1996. She won an international competition on “Ph.D. Thesis in Architecture”, organized by BRI: Building Research & Information (The International Journal of Research, Development, Demonstration & Innovation) in United Kingdom, in 1999 with her thesis “Concept, Conception, Conceptual Analysis in Aesthetics and Architecture: Sampling on the Works of Architecture after 1980”.
She still works as a Professor at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, leading the “Architectural Design” and “Basic Design” Studios, teaching the courses of “Theory of Architecture”, “Theory of Art”, “Aesthetics”, “The Dialog of Art and Architecture in 20th Century”, “Cinema and Architecture” and is the author of many related works.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Odeta Manahasa graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Middle East Technical University in 2005 and 2008, respectively. She graduated with a PhD degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 2017. She is a senior lecturer at a private university, teaching Basic Design course since 2008.

In her dissertation, “ Children Participation and Post Occupancy Evaluation in Developing a Communicative Language to (Re)Design Educational Environments”, she uses the children's space experience as a tool for participation, to offer a new perspective on the participatory design discourse on the levels of participation.

In addition, she has a long-standing interest in understanding environmental psychology in its larger context, particularly in relation to child and child space perception. She is developing this interest as two lines of inquiry: (i) child space perception knowledge, with a focus on a systematic structure for thinking on environmental behavior phenomena from different methodological perspectives, and (ii) improving the quality of learning environments.

Thus, her areas of expertise and research interest include: architectural education, children and architecture (e.g. children’s participation in architectural design), participatory design, school design, environmental psychology, post occupancy evaluation, and environmental behavior and design.