Women Architects of Eastern Turkiye

Women began to be admitted to architecture schools in Turkiye in 1929, and the first graduates received their diplomas in 1934. However, the literature on architecture typically focuses on men. There are fewer studies on women, and all these women are graduates of old western universities in Turkiye. Therefore, this study will focus on seven women architects who graduated from Karadeniz Technical University in Trabzon, Turkey, between 1970 and 2007. Some of them are well known in the region, while others work as academics, competing architects, or freelance architects, and they are famous throughout the country. Their names are Prof. Dr. Sengul Oymen Gur, academic and competing architect Prof. Dr. Gulay Usta, competing architect Oya Eskin Guvendi, freelance architects Emine Turhan, Emel Simsek, Ugur Degermenci and Mukaddes Ataman. This study aims to document and archive the productions of those who have been working actively for the last fifty years. This paper aims to change the narrative about women architects in Turkiye, which is almost entirely based on women graduates of universities in western Turkiye.

Journal

VI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE AND GENDER, ICAG 2023

Year

2023

Pages

584-603

DOI

10.4995/ICAG2023.2023.16832

WoS UID

WOS:001664999700039