Prof. BURAK ASILİSKENDER

Biography

Burak Asiliskender is a Professor of Architecture at Abdullah Gül University and the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He has been also working as the Advisor to the Rector for Education, Bologna Process and Accreditation. He was former -and founding- chair of the Department of Architecture. He is one of the co-founders of the Argeus Architects.

He holds Bachelor of Architecture degree (Yildiz Technical University/Istanbul), Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree on Architectural Design (Istanbul Technical University).

He studies on architectural theory and design; space, place making, sense of place, spaces and identities in transition, in particular. He has publications on the architecture and identity, space and place concepts, transitions and transformations of space and identities. 

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.

He is one of the international members of the Docomomo (International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement), EAHN (European Architectural Historians Network) and TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage).