Urban Design Postgraduate Program Students’ Project Visited by EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah

EMU Urban Design Postgraduate Program Students’ Project ‘Designing a Pedestrian/Student Friendly Campus –EMU’ Visited by EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak  

An urban design project entitled with ‘Improvemnet Project for EMU Campus: Designing a Pedestrian/Student Friendly Campus’ are studying by Urban Design Postgraduate program students and coordinating by Prof. Dr. Şebnem Önal Hoşkara and Assist. Prof. Dr. Beser Oktay Vehbi and research assistans Samaneh Ghafourian and Payam Mahasti for 2010-2011 spring semester. Since the project is related with the EMU campus and its improvement, the expectetions and needs  of the students and as well as the Rector Ofifice are essentials for taking some desicions. Therefore, the project coordinators and students  invited the EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak for presenting the possible potentials and existing problems of the campus to him an also to know their expectation for future of the campus.

Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak was visited the Urban Design Postgraduate Program project in the Faculty of Architecture on 15 April 2011. During this visit, the students were present the natural, physical and social analysis of the campus that will help to determine the strenghts and weakness of the campus.  It was also aimed to discuss the possibiltiy of the proposals that are developed by the students regarding the problems that gathered from the analyses and to hear the Rector’s ideas on them. He also shared Rector’s office new projects for the campus and advised possible locations for these projects to the UD programe students.

It was very helpfull discussion for the sudents to get the ideas of Rector’s office and accordingly they will produce most appropriate and applicable proposals for pedestrian/student friendly campus for final.

2010-2011 Fall Semester Honours Ceremony, 2nd May 2011

Dear Faculty Members and Students,

You are cordially invited to the 2010-2011 Fall Semester Honours Ceremony. Honours Ceremony will be held Monday, May 2, at 13:00 in open amphi. This event is open to all students, faculty and staff of the Faculty of Architecture. Families/significant others are also welcome to attend. Your participation is kindly requested.

Department of Architecture

Design Week (Theme of the Design Week: Multi-colored structure) 2-6 May 2011

Theme of the Design Week:

Multi-colored structure (multi-countries, multi-races, multi-disciplines, multi-levels, multi-perspectives, or multi-colors) of the Eastern Mediterranean University in general, and the Faculty of Architecture in particular, is worth consideration in terms of supplying a rich and incentive working environment, where design is the formative of intersection. Design…. This multi-faceted configuration of design, and the understanding of design at the faculty of architecture, provides us a garden or common-ground of tolerance, where this diversity is handled within collaborative approach; and its rich context is underlined. Hence, throughout the ‘design week’, varying aspects of design will be experimented in varying methods of education. Parallel workshops, longtable J critiques, lectures, exhibitions, discussions, or, in general, a planned action will divert the concentration of first our students, almost 1000 in number, and then everybody on the campus on the action of design, with a wide perspective. This rich context will multi-ply with an acceleration and will make us multi-fly.

With a range of events and activities, the design week is designed to provide a unique opportunity to come and experience the lively, culturally stimulating creative environment on offer at the Faculty of Architecture, EMU.

The Design Week of the Faculty of Architecture will bring together designers in the best and most diverse sense of the word; people, who influence how we communicate, interpret, experience our environments and work together. This breadth of talent and perspective is intended to be habituated for our students with the upcoming “design week”, which will take place between 2-6 May, 2011.

Across the five days a lecture by the worldwide acknowledged Kengo Kuma, information sessions, workshops, career pathways seminars (featuring panel sessions with some of our renowned Alumni), exhibitions and other interactive events relative to all the undergraduate and postgraduate programs offered by the faculty with its three departments as architecture, interior architecture, and industrial design departments will be conducted.

A range of other activities will also be taking place at our Faculty plot in campus throughout the design week including an art and design student market, and social events that will take place synchronized with the May-fest offered by the EMU.

Understanding Brunelleschi Workshop in Florence – 2011

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Dinçyürek, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Netice Yıldız, (lecturer in history of architecture), had conducted a workshop with ten students in the historic city, Florence (Italy) during the week 6-13 March 2011. This event was one of the series of workshops organised by the Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco within their cultural and education programmes of “Life beyond Tourism”.  The theme of the workshop was “Understanding Brunelleschi”, which was prepared by Prof. Dr. Yasemin Güney İnce, the project leader from Balıkesir University. Alongside the two lecturers and ten students from both Balıkesir University and Eastern Mediterranean University, Trakya University and Kocaeli University groups with two lecturers and ten students in each group, took part in the workshop. The first day of the workshop begun with the welcoming speech by Paolo del Bianco, the Director of the Foundation and presentation of the project by Prof. Yasemin Güney İnce, which was followed by the students’ presentations from each university related with their university as well as the cultural heritage of the relevant city and country.

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