Biography

Tulay Atak received her undergraduate architecture degree at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and continued with her graduate studies in the Critical Studies in Architecture Culture Program at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in architecture with the dissertation "Byzantine Modern: Displacements of Modernism in Istanbul"  which considers the place of Istanbul in the making of modern architecture.

At the final stages of her PhD, Tulay Atak joined the collaborative research project, Museology and the Colony, organized by UCLA, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Getty Research Institute, for which she carried out field research on museums in India. Her research and reviews have been published in edited volumes and journals such as La Construction Savante, ArcCA, JSAH and PMLA. She has curated the exhibition, "No Assembly Required" on the role of 3-D printing in architecture at the Hartell Gallery, Cornell University. She has been a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, CalPoly Pomona and Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University.

Academic Research/Areas of Interest

History and Theory of Architecture, Criticism, Design Theory, Theories of Form and Formalism, Urbanism and infrastructure, History of Non-Western Architecture, Critical theory, Literary theory and translation studies

Tulay Atak

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tatak@risd.edu
401-454-6281

• BARC, Middle Eastern Technical University
• PHD, University of California, Los Angeles

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