Istanbul Gelişim University Department of Architecture, experts in their fields with their professional knowledge and skills, consists of two professors, two associate professors, eight assistant professors, one lecturer, and four research assistants. Our department of architecture in line with the vision of the institution being a world university within the framework of “Perpetual Development”, aims to continue to improve itself whose priority is to bring in young architects who know their core values, follow the developments, and technologies in the world, can think critically, are open to research and development, creative, and know the social responsibilities and ethical values of the profession.
Today, the department of architecture is among the most crowded departments with 270 students in the undergraduate Turkish Architecture Program and 571 students from different countries of the world in the English Architecture Program. By using the advantages of this dynamism, it enables students to get to know different cultures, to produce together, and to work together. Among the educational principles of our department, it is important to educate students to be leaders of multidisciplinary teams.
Interdisciplinary joint scientific studies and Institution-supported projects are developed in the engineering departments of our faculty and IGU Application and Research Centers. At the same time, with TEKMER, which has just started operating, research and development activities have been increased and a step has been taken to qualified scientific studies. In addition to education, projects are carried out in cooperation with various institutions to create awareness in the academy and the public in the sector with a focus on research and development.
I believe that we will achieve successful work with the motivation of becoming a department that improves itself every year with our newly joined students and our strengthening staff, and I wish our students success for the new term.
Assoc. Prof. İlke CİRİTCİ
Acting Chair of the Department of Architecture
