Zeynep Çelik is a Turkish born architect, architectural historian, theorist, and academic. She is Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. She is a retired distinguished professor of architecture at the

New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a Public university, public research university in Newark, New Jersey, United States, with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Founded in 1881 with the support of local indust ...

. Her work focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth century

urban history Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, ur ...

colonialism Colonialism is the control of another territory, natural resources and people by a foreign group. Colonizers control the political and tribal power of the colonised territory. While frequently an Imperialism, imperialist project, colonialism c ...

orientalism In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle ...

and

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

Biography

She graduated from

Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( or ), often abbreviated as Robert or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational, Education in Turkey#Private schools, private Second ...

in 1970 and obtained her B.Arch from

Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul (, commonly referred to as İTÜ), is an public university, public technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university ...

Faculty of Architecture in 1975. She received her master's degree from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comp ...

and her doctorate from the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is co ...

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 Sabancı visiting professor of history at Columbia University. She is a member of the

Turkish Academy of Sciences The Turkish Academy of Sciences ( – TÜBA) is an autonomous scholarly association aimed at promoting scientific activities in Turkey. Although it is attached to the office of the Presidency and is largely funded by the government, it maintains f ...

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

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