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Prof. Dr. Sengül Öymen
GÜR
Dr. Gür,
a graduate of Ankara College (TED-1964), Karadeniz Technical University
(KTU-1970), Trabzon, Turkey, and the University of Pennsylvania, USA
(Ph.D-1978), is currently the professor of Architectural Design (since
1989) and is the head of Building Sciences in the Faculty of Architecture
(KTU), where in addition to conducting design studios, she offers courses
on Behavioral Issues in Environmental Design for the undergraduates,
and Architectural Theories and Principles, Architectural Criticism, Environmental
Research Methods, Spatial Organization, and Housing Question for the
graduates, and supervises doctoral and master’s theses. She organizes
LIVENARCH (Livable Environments and ARCHitecture) International Congresses
in Architecture. She lectures at national universities, and abroad.
She also acts as an advisor to governmental institutions and
has worked as a member of the State Housing Committee responsible for
the planning of the Seventh 5-year Development Plan of Turkey.
Dr.
Gür who is included in the Directory of Environment-Behavior-Design
Researchers and is a member of several professional associations such
as CICA, DRS (Design Research Society), Turkish Chamber of Architects
and WA (World Architecture Community) and an intermittent member of
IAPS, CIB W84, IAHS, Heritage, etc. She also supports non-professional
associations (Governor’s Human Rights Committee of Trabzon, Turkish
Women’s Association Trabzon Section). She is the honorary member
of BTI (Bund Türkischer Ingenieure und Akademiker e.V).
She
has served as the editor of Mimarlik (the periodical of Turkish Chamber
of Architects) between 1988 and 1992 and is presently the editor of
the scientific periodical of the Anatolian University (Eskisehir,
Turkey), editor in chief of the Educational Technology (Istanbul)
and the editor’s aide
of YAPI (a renowned Turkish architectural periodical). She also serves
as the editor of E-books and the regional editor of World Architecture.
She did research for the DPT (State Planning Organization of Turkey),
for TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Organization of
Turkey), Turkish Ministry of Culture and Karadeniz Technical University.
She is the architect of the Business Administration Building (KTU,
Trabzon) and the Sports, Recreation and Social Facilities Complex of
the School of Education (KTU, Trabzon), School for the Blind (Trabzon)
among others which are mainly residential.
She is the author of 14 books and about two hundred and fifty articles
and papers communicated at national and international platforms. Among
her major books are Social Interactions and Architectural Design:
A Method of Approach to the Evaluation and Design of Communal Spaces,
KTU Dept, of Architecture, No: 27, Trabzon, 1985; Spatial Organization,
Trabzon, Gür yayincilik,
1996; House Culture: The Case of
Eastern Black Sea Region, Yapi Endüstri
Merkezi (YEM), Istanbul, 2000; with T. Zorlu , Spaces For Children,
Yapi Endüstri
Merkezi (YEM), Istanbul, 2002. She has contributed to many book
parts outstanding of which are “Construction of Criticism
in Architecture: Perspective, Truth, Method and Principle” in
Theory and Criticism, Hüseyin Su (ed.), Ankara: Hece, 2004, pp:
211-262; “Eastern Black Sea House”, Rural Architecture
in the Eastern Black Sea Region, Milli Reasürans Publications,
Amelie Edgü (curator), 2005, pp:162-212; “Like
an Adventure in Linguistics: A Look into Building Typologies and
their History in the Kars-Ardahan Region”, Architecture
in Northeastern Anatolia, Murat Ural and Figen Kuzucu (Eds.), Milli
Reasürans,
2009, pp.181-207; “Behind the Mountains of Yalnizçam” Architecture
in Northeastern Anatolia, Murat Ural and Figen Kuzucu (Eds.), Milli
Reasürans, 2009, pp.207-252, etc.
She is awarded with the Fulbright
Scholarship between 1972 and 1977; and by the DAAD in 2002 and again
in 2008. She is the holder of many honor plates and prizes: she has
been awarded by TÜBITAK and KTU
for several of her publications and is the winner of Research Excellence
Award for 2008, launched by Architectural Foundation of Turkey by her
work in collaboration with A. Bekleyen: “The Failure of Man-Environment
Studies In Influencing Design Decisions”, Places
People and Sustainability, People and Places, G. Moser, Y. Bernard,
M. Bonnes, J. Corraliz, and V. Giuliani (Eds) Göttingen, Germany,
Hogrefe and Huber, 2002, pp. 94-106.
She is married and has two children.
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