Zeynep Çelik is a Turkish born architect, architectural historian, theorist, and academic. She is Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is a retired distinguished professor of architecture at the

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. Her work focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth century urban history,

colonialism Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their relig ...

orientalism In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...

and

modernity Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norm (social), norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the " ...

Biography

She graduated from

Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi or ), often shortened to Robert, or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational Secondary ...

in 1970 and obtained her B.Arch from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1975. She received her master's degree from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

and her doctorate from the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

in 1978 and 1985 respectively. Çelik started teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1991. She retired from NJIT as a distinguished professor of architecture. She is the Sakip Sabanci visiting professor of history at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She is a member of the

Turkish Academy of Sciences The Turkish Academy of Sciences ( tr, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi – TÜBA) is an autonomous scholarly association aimed at promoting scientific activities in Turkey. Although it is attached to the office of the Prime Minister and is largely fund ...

Works

* ''The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City'' * ''Displaying the Orient'' * ''Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations'' * ''At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture'' with Richard Koshalek * ''Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters'' * ''About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire'' * ''Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Çelik, Zeynep 20th-century Turkish architects Robert College alumni Istanbul Technical University alumni Rice University alumni Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty University of California alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Turkish women scientists