02/05/2022
Sirince Visiting School: Tales of Hestia, Hearth and Stove
| August 20 - 8 September 2022 | Turkey
Guest Lecturer : Süha Özkan and Serdar Anlağan
Suha Özkan was born in 1945. He studied architecture at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, and Theory of Design at the Architectural Association in London. Dr. Özkan has undertaken extensive research on the theory and history of architecture, design, vernacular form, and emergency housing. He taught and lectured extensively in North America, Europe, Central-, South-, and Southeast Asia, and throughout the Middle East. With Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Geneva, Dr. Özkan served as the Deputy Secretary General from 1983 to 1990. He was the Secretary General between 1990 and 2006. On behalf of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Dr. Özkan has organized three important international architectural and urban design competitions. These were the Revitalization of Samarkand, Uzbekistan (1991), and the New Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar (1997) Doha Corniche Urban Design Competition (2002). In 2005, he was the head of 22. UIA Istanbul World Congress of Architecture. In 2015 he established Bodrum Architecture Library mainly based on his own collection of books, periodicals and rare documents."
I. ARCH. SERDAR ANLAĞAN (MSU) An architect and poet, Serdar Anlığan was born in Ankara in 1968, He studied at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Architecture Section of Urban Planning at 1985 but changed the course of the discipline to Interior Architecture in 1986 and graduated in 1991. Between 1990-1994, he worked as a cartoonist and graphic novelist for many magazines, He has projects and applications for institutions, such as Sadberk Hanım Museum, Darüşşafaka Museum, Bodrum Underwater Archeology Museum, Sermet Çifter Library, Haci Abdullah Restaurant, Air France. In 2005, he read his own manifesto at the Free Chair at the UIA 22nd World Architecture Congress at Istanbul and withdrew from his professional career. Between 2010-13 he gave "Contemporary Art" lessons at Mugla University Bodrum Fine Arts Faculty. Currently, he is the director of Bodrum Architecture Library.
