Bahar Aktuna

Yeditepe University · Department of Architecture

The article is a review of the interdisciplinary graduate student symposium held at the School of Architecture at the University of Florida on May 1, 2018. The symposium was inspired by an essay of Martin Heidegger (...Poetically Man Dwells...) who had significant impact on the development of phenomenological thinking in architecture. The article r...

This chapter focuses on the architectural responses to the evolution of human–nature relationships throughout history within European urban context by reviewing design practices with a focus on farming as a settling and dwelling. Drawing from Martin Heidegger’s notion of poiesis and Henri Lefebvre’s definition of urbanization, we elaborate on the w...

Cast in the beginning of time, the rock pillars of Meteora make room for an ascetic and monastic life supporting and supported by the monks who have dwelled there for almost a millennium. It is commonly accepted that the landscape of Meteora has a poetry-like quality. In step with the poetics of place, the testimonies of Meteora bring myths and fac...