Dr. Meral Ekincioglu

Welcome to my page,

Trained as an architect, I am a scholar with a Ph.D. degree and my scholarly endeavor is based on problem-centered research in architecture. More specifically, I am a scholar in postwar architecture history and the subjects of my current academic study are politics of gender, multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion in my expertise field. In this respect, I conducted my advanced academic research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture Program for two years (1) after my Ph.D. degree in Architecture at Istanbul Technical University. My scholarly project brings into focus a critical insight into the politics of gender in institutional policies, academia, the profession, education, history and history-writing, and examines cross-cultural relations and transnational (design) practice in postwar architecture. Following my productive research process at MIT, I am currently developing the manuscript for my book, and conducting my new research project to “unfold” hidden and silent voices of underrepresented communities in multicultural context of (the US) architecture (history) that is supported by participation of MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.

Based on my advanced academic and archival research during my studies at the MIT, HTC Program, I presented my scholarly project and findings at the MIT-HTC Program, the International Women in Architecture Symposium at Virginia Tech., the MIT-Women’s and Gender Studies Program Intellectual Forum Series, the Women’s Studies Speaker Series organized by Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY-Graduate Center, Harvard University for a talk series organized by New England Turkish Student Association, the 71st Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) - Annual International Conference where I was awarded by a SAH Fellowship. In addition, I was a panelist at “A Convergence at the Confluence of Power, Identity and Design” organized by the Women in Design Group at the Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, and at “A Square and Half - The Colors, A Tribute by Ivaana Muse” at the MIT Museum. In my expertise field, I am an author and a contributor of two international publication projects on women architects (forthcoming 2021).

In order to stimulate critical awareness of gender and women in architecture (in its profession, practice, education, history and historiography), and to give an impetus for new collections in those fields, I created and developed the collection, "Women in Modern and Contemporary Territories of Turkish Architecture" at MIT. Conducted for Archnet, online source of MIT and named one of the top 20 architecture websites by the Global Grid in 2016 (2), this is the first project on documenting the leading figures of the first and the second generations of Turkish women architects as a digital collection, open to international scholars and based on my scholarly research, literature review and texts. In addition, I am a certificate holder by Consortium for Graduate Studies, Gender, Culture, Women & Sexuality (GCWS) at MIT.

In light of my expertise field in architecture, my aim is also to contribute to heated discussions on full citizenship in today’s academia and society through architecture history, theory and criticism. On this basis, I was one of the speakers at WikiConference North America (MIT, 2019), and will speak at the 51st NeMLA Annual Convention organized by Boston University. I am also a contributor of the first exhibition on Citizen Tales Commons at the Emerson College-New Urban Art Gallery.

As a special Turkish fellow, I began my Ph.D. dissertation research at the Harvard University, Aga Khan History of Art and Architecture, Ph.D. Program in 2006, conducted it for 10 months, and continued this advanced academic research at the Columbia University, Graduate School of Planning and Preservation, Ph.D. Program as a research scholar (2008-2009). Based on my dissertation research at Harvard and Columbia universities, I completed the first Ph.D. dissertation on the practice history of Tekeli-Sisa Architecture Partnership (1954, Istanbul-present) and obtained my Ph.D. degree in Architecture at Istanbul Technical University in 2011. My secondary academic fields are sociology, theory and the modern history of the architecture profession, modernization of architectural design practice, relationship between the design architect and the client, and their historical thresholds in postwar Turkey.

While conducting my Ph.D. dissertation research at Harvard and Columbia universities, I presented my two academic papers at "Media in Transition 5 and 6", two international conferences organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies in 2007 and in 2009. With my editorial background and scholarly formation, my academic papers discuss the historical progress of professional architectural journalism, its significant editors, their journalistic criticism, recent development in architectural media in Turkey and their impact on the built-environment in the country.

With my editorial and architectural background on modern Turkey along with my scholarly perspective, I also conducted an extensive project on "Arkitekt", the leading professional architectural journal published in modern Turkey (1931-1981) for Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals at Columbia University while conducting my Ph.D. dissertation research at that academic institution in 2008-2009. Entering 50 years of architectural data (1931-1981) from modern and contemporary Turkish architecture, editors, architectural historians, critics, practitioners, etc., my contribution to Avery Index to Architectural Periodical was to support scholarly research on alternative modern and contemporary architectural examples in relation to my native country and its unique architectural culture in between East and West.

In order to bring into focus the creative potential of diversity and multicultural perspective as related to immigrant architects and underrepresented communities in the U.S. architecture, I conducted two short documentary film projects in 2017 and in 2016. My most recent short documentary film project, “Unfolding the Turkish Chapter at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Architecture” aims to indicate the lack of undocumented backgrounds of women and gender in the U.S. architecture education. My second short documentary film project elaborates the educational background and professional career of the first woman architect from the Princeton University, School of Architecture. Following my advanced academic research project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, my descriptive text on this short documentary film was published by Architexx. This short documentary film was the top video among the video collection of Archnet, online source of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2016. In addition, I conducted a short architectural film project on the MIT, non-denominational Chapel, a significant iconic architectural design by Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect in postwar U.S. in the MIT campus’ postwar architecture. All of those short documentary and architectural films are based on my scholarly and archival research, text and were aired in the U.S. in 2016 and in 2017.*

I received my Bachelor and Master degrees in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. Following my education, I maintained productive dialogs and collaboration with Turkish academia by promoting critical discussion platforms to re-evaluate existing curriculums and the academic agenda. In relation to my master thesis (1996), I took the first step with Prof. Dr. Safak Ural at the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University to organize “Architecture and Philosophy I”, the first national symposium which offered a rich academic platform to discuss the influence of philosophy on architecture through the extensive participation of philosophers, professors and practitioners in Turkish architecture. Bringing together professors, scholars, critics in Turkish architecture and in the field of philosophy, I served as its organizing committee member and delivered my published presentation (2001). Considering its success and positive feedbacks, this first academic event turned into a national symposium series organized under various philosophy-architecture themes. Prior to Istanbul Technical University, I pursued my education at the Erenkoy Girls High School founded in Istanbul in 1911 and one of the oldest surviving girls' high schools in modern Turkey.

In Istanbul, I taught advanced architectural design studio and various courses related to the history, theory and discourse of 20th century modern and contemporary architecture and its practice at the Yeditepe University, Department of Architecture. Established in 1996, Yeditepe University is one of the well-known foundation universities in the Republic of Turkey. All courses by the Department of Architecture are offered in English and the university is a signatory to Student Exchange Protocols with over 30 universities in the United States.

In the end of the 1990s, I began to work as the architectural journalist and the editor in Istanbul. As the co-founding editor and the foreign affairs representative at the leading architectural journals of Turkey (Tasarim in 1996; Arredamento Mimarlik in 1999-2001; PORTFOLYO in 2002-2005), I established very nurturing and communicative dialog with academia, professionals and design practitioners in Turkish and world/global architecture. Having numerous published articles, interviews, translations, my 19 editorial monographs are available at leading academic libraries in the U.S., such as at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library of Columbia University, the Frances Loeb Library of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Rotch Library of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Architecture & Planning. As the general publishing coordinator and architectural journalist, I always put my readers’ learning needs at the forefront of my investigative journalism through my highly informed research and writings. As a professional practitioner in architecture, I worked for various architectural offices and firms in Istanbul in the 1990s. In 1996, my graduation project was nominated as the award candidate at the Fifth National Architecture Awards organized by the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, and I partipated in the Fifth National Architecture Awards Exhibition with this project.

I am the member of the Middle East Studies Association (2017-present), Society of Architectural Historian (2017-present), the friend of Boston Society of Architects (2015-present), Society of American Archivist (2018-present), the honorary member of the World Architecture Community (2008-present) and the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA, 2019-present). Based on my scholarly studies, my biographical information has taken its place at the Biographical Database of the International Archive of Women in Architecture, a joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.

In addition to my scholarly studies and projects in architecture, my another mission is to support creative artistic, cultural events and inclusive approach in architecture, academia and society in various ways: I volunteered for the organization of KidsBuild! held at Boston Society of Architects space (2019), the 25th Harvard Arts First Festival (2017), the Common Boston Festival by Boston Society of Architects Foundation (2017), was a singer at the MIT’s Women Chorale (2006-2007), organized two piano recitals by Gulsin Onay (a world renowned Turkish woman virtuoso in Western classical music and the soloist of the Presidential Symphony in Ankara) at MIT and Harvard University (in collaboration with the MIT-Turkish Student Association and the Harvard-College-Turkish Student Association in 2015), have been playing and singing to support local artists in Cambridge-Boston, and for elders in collaboration with an organization in Boston, and took a part of Mayor Marty Walsh's campaing to support his agenda on equity and inclusion for the social and cultural progress of Boston. I am a member at the MIT’s Women League (2014-present) and Harvard Neighbors (2006-2007; 2017-present).

As a contributor of SAHARA, a digital image archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with Artstor and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, architectural photography is my deep-interest. In addition, I am a fanatic appreciator of some electro/acoustic guitarists and bass players (in jazz, jazz-rock/fusion and progressive rock, like Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Eberhard Weber, Dave Holland, Mike Stern, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John McLaughlin and Robert Fripp), and singing with my acoustic guitar (lead vocal in alternative and folk rock as the rhythm guitar) is one of the deepest ways for me to connect with my inner-self and establish a creative dialog with people.

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Thank you for reading my page;

Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D.

meral@meralekincioglu.com

meralekincioglu.blogspot.com

(1) My advanced academic research project at the MIT, HTC Program examines the postwar history of Turkish women architects with my specific research problem and is also the first scholarly and advanced study on the early women architects from the Princeton University, School of Architecture (Class of 1970 and 1971). I met those women architects in person, Professor Robert Geddes, the first dean of the Princeton University, School of Architecture and discussed my findings. As those women architects expressed, there is no scholarly study on their career hi/story, and Professor Robert Geddes, the pioneering professor at the SoA to admit early women architecture students told that he does not know any research study on the early women architects from the Princeton University, SoA. (The sound record of my conversation with him is in my personal archive). Following this, I visited Beverly Willis, the founder of Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (2016) and shared my findings on those women architects. As she expressed, she does not know any research or publication on early women architects from the Princeton University, SoA. When I contacted Professor Mary McLeod, a feminist architecture historian at Columbia University, GSAPP, all architecture historians at the Princeton University, School of Architecture, Monica Ponce de Leon, the woman dean of the Princeton University, School of Architecture, President of Princeton University by e-mail and asked for their scholarly, architectural views or any comments / contributions to my advanced academic research on the early women architects from that school (2015-2016), none of them shared scholarly or architectural research, publication, comments or contributions to this research subject. In addition, I could not reach a study on this subject at the library of the Princeton University, School of Architecture. (2014-2016). In the final of my advanced academic research at the MIT-HTC, I shared my detailed research file to the Head of Program and Rafael Reif, the MIT President, My all presentations as a speaker and an invited speaker (2016-2018) are based on my advanced academic research project at the MIT, HTC Program (2014-2016). The academic sponsor of my advanced academic research project is the MIT, HTC Program and "all rights reserved".

(2) For MIT-Archnet Award, see: https://akpia.mit.edu/blog/archnet-named-one-top-20-architecture-sites-2016, accessed on 1.5.2019

* These short documentary and architectural films were produced by Turkish American TV under the direction of Dr. Hurriyet Aydin Ok. In 2007, Turkish American TV Television received the Community Service Award from the Turkish-American Association of Washington, DC (ATA-DC) and was also awarded by the Community Access Magic (CAM) Awards in the International Category from Prince George's County Community TV (PGCTV)in 2007 and 2008. The most recently, TATV received "Excellence in Media" Award at the 32. Annual National Turkish American Convention organized by the Assembly of Turkish American Association (ATAA), the Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) and Turkish American Cultural Centers (TACC) in 2012.

• Ekinci oglu, M., 2006-2007, Theory and History of the Architecture Profession.

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(Special Turkish Fellow, the Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture, Ph.D. Program; academic sponsor: Harvard University.)

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• Ekincioglu, M., 2007, 2008-2009, Early History of Architectural Record.

(with a specific research problem and time period).

(A systematic and close-reading on its founding and early editors’ articles, Ph.D. dissertations, scholarly essays and architectural articles on professional architecture journalism, in-person appointments with Robert Ivy, Dr. Suzanne Stephens, John Morris Dixon, William Menking, e-correspondences with some pioneering architecture journalists in the U.S. with suggestions by Dr. Suzanne Stephens and Architectural Record, attending the course on history of architectural criticism offered by Dr. Suzanne Stephens at Barnard College as a non-registered, guest scholar with her permission throughout the 2008-2009 academic term, etc.).

• Ekincioglu, M., 2008-200 9 , Robert Gutman Papers Collection

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(Research Scholar, the Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Ph.D. Program; academic sponsor: Columbia University.)

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• Ekincioglu, M., 2008-2009, the Practice History of the SOM-NYC in the 1960s-1970s

(with a specific research problem).

(A systematic, in-depth, archive-based research study on four significant architectural buildings designed under Gordon Bunshaft’s leadership; with support by the SOM-NYC Office; a close reading on Ph.D. dissertations, monographs, scholarly essays, architectural articles, oral history project with leading design partners and remarkable team members of SOM, some archival materials from Avery Drawings and Archive at Columbia University.)
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(Research Scholar, the Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Ph.D. Program; academic sponsor: Columbia University.)

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• Ekincioglu, M., 2014-2016, Uncovering Education and Professional Career Herstory of Turkish and Turkish-American Women Architects in Postwar U.S. (with a spesific research problem, time period, theoretical analysis).

(With MIT's academic sponsorship, systematic, advanced, in-depth archive-based academic research project as one of the significant feminist cases from a modern and secular Middle East region in multicultural U.S. architecture. Systematic archival research at MIT, Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Vassar College, the American Institute of Architects' records, IWIA at Virginia Tech., systematic archival research in Istanbul).
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(Visiting scholar, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture Program; academic sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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• Ekincioglu, M., 2015-2016 , Uncovering Early Herstory of Co-education at the Princeton University-School of Architecture. (with a specific research problem and time period).

(With MIT's academic sponsorship, in-depth, systematic, archive-based academic research project by making an in-person appointment and e-correspondences with Professor Robert Geddes, the first dean of the Princeton University-School of Architecture, and with MIT's academic sponsorship. Systematic, archival research at Princeton University, Harvard University, Vassar College, systematic archival research by making appointments and e-correspondences with the first three women architects).

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(Visiting scholar, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture Program; academic sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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• Ekincioglu, M., 2018-present, Diverse and Inclusive Historical Documentation Practice and Methods at Pioneering Schools of Architecture in the U.S.

(with a specific research problem).

Participants: Architecture record archivist at the Yale University-School of Architecture; special collection archivist at the Harvard University-Graduate School of Design; librarian at the Princeton University- School of Architecture; curator at the architecture and design collections at the MIT Museum; architecture, urban planning, and visual resources librarian at University of Michigan; art, architecture & engineering library; head of special collections at University of Rice; and library manager at the Kappe Library-SCI-Arch and the director at Archives & Records at the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

• Ekincioglu, M., 2019, 2022-present, Hacking the MIT-McCormick Hall’s Archive: Architecture and Wellness. (With a specific research problem and time period).

(With systematic, in-depth archive research at the MIT-Architecture Collection at the MIT-Museum, systematic, in-depth, advanced academic research project, in-progress. Its abstract was accepted by “the 76th Society of Architecture Historians, Annual and International Conference”, virtual session, 2023).

• Ekincioglu, M., 2021, Research on Luigi Horn Mumford (Oral History Project for the Society of Architectural Historians – Women in Architecture Affiliate Group).

On May 6, 2021, I received an invitation e-mail by Anna Sokolina from "the Society of Architectural Historians - Women in Architecture Affiliate Group" to “invite me to lead an oral history project, Luigi Horn Mumford, who is a 90-year-old retired architect and was one of the few women hired at Skidmore Owings and Merrill in the mid-century period”. On the same day, I responded and wrote that “I had conducted a systematic academic research project on the practice history of the SOM-NYC Office, read “Ph.D. dissertation by Professor Reinhold Martin”, “SOM Monograph by Professor Nicholas Adams”, know “the Oral History Project by SOM partners and team members, https://digital-libraries.artic.edu/digital/collection/caohp”, (last accessed on 5.25.2021) during my research scholarship at the Columbia University, GSAPP, Ph.D. Program, and could conduct this Oral History project with her. Upon positive e-mail by her, I began to research on Luigi Horn Mumford and women architects in the SOM’s herstory. While conducting research on this research subject with my full effort and sharing my knowledge resources on SOM with her, on May 2027, she sent an e-mail and wrote that “Luigi now claims she doesn’t have much to say”, “Rebecca Siefert would take over the lead”, “please confirm and we will go from there”.

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Scholarly Publications

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Encyclopedia Articles

(SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press)

Digital Collection (as curator)

Publications in Architecture

(and references)

If you wish to reach information of all my publications and projects in architecture on digital platforms, you can search my surname as "Ekincioglu" (its spelling in English) and "Ekincioğlu" (its original spelling in Turkish).

• Ekincioglu, M., Hacking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-McCormick Hall’s Archive: Architecture and Wellness. (in-progress. As a conference speaker at the 76st Society of Architectural Historians, Annual International Conference -virtual session-, I have submitted my full paper with its all references, visual materials, photo. credits to our conference session chair and all conference speakers in our session; made my international conference presentation, and have been currently working on its publication. © Meral Ekincioglu).

• Ekincioglu, M., "Celile Berk Butka": A Woman Architect at the Intersection of Architecture, Public Health and MIT. (In-progress. Celile Berk is an Istanbul-born woman graduate student of Professor Alvar Aalto at the MIT-Architecture. My in-depth draft with all literature, archival, visual references and credits were submitted to the MIT-Head of Department by e-mail during my advanced academic research project. © Meral Ekincioglu).

• Ekincioglu, M., Karacar, P. (authors), A Pioneering Woman in Interdisciplinary Architecture Education and Pedagogy in Turkey, Conference Proceedings, 8th International Conference on Gender Studies: Gender & Art and Other Gender Studies. (It has been submitted; forthcoming in 2023). Erbilen, S. U., Gunce, K. (Eds), Eastern Mediterranean University Press, e-ISBN: 978-605-9595-51-3, pp. 34 - 5

• Ekincioglu, M. (author), 2021, “Uncovering Her Archive: Ayla Karacabey in Postwar Architecture”, in Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture, Sokolina, A. (ed.)., Routledge, pp. 276 - 286.

(As the author, my original, submitted essay to the editor has lots of differences from its published version in this book in spite of my emails to her during the editing process. My published biography in this book also includes incorrect information unlike my submitted biography to the editor. I had submitted my essay, all visual materials, references and credits according to their editorial rules, word limits, etc. and before all deadlines. Academic sponsor of my advanced academic research project is the MIT-HTC.).

• Following my productive advanced academic research project at MIT with the Institute's academic sponsorship for two years, I have been currently developing the manuscript for my book.

(I submitted my in-depth, systematic drafts with references of all my theoretical, literature reviews, visual and textual archival materials to the MIT-Architecture, Head of Department by e-mail and to Dr. Rafael Reif, the MIT President with my detailed research file during my in-person appointment with him. © Meral Ekincioglu).

• Ekincioglu, M. (author), the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, Brown, L. & Burns, K. (editors). (in-progress). (I submitted 8 women architects' biographies by emails upon invitation emails by Prof. Dr. Gulsun Saglamer and Professor Lori Brown for "Türkiye" and "North America" chapters of this book in between 2016 and 2019; and before the deadline indicated in their emails).

• Ekincioglu, M. (curator, scholar, writer), Women in Modern and Contemporary Territories of Turkish Architecture, Archnet, online resource of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Aga Khan Documentation Center; Cambridge, MA, U.S.

For more: https://www.archnet.org/collections/850; last accessed on 7.10.2022;

For the list of women architects in this collection, http://meralekincioglu.com/2-publication.html

This is the first collection on (21) pioneering women architects from modern and contemporary Turkish architecture to stimulate diverse and inclusive documents on women architects.

According to published news by Archnet on MIT’s official page, the collection, "Turkish Women Architects" created and developed by me is the largest of several additions to their Women in Architecture Collection. (in 2016).

Please see: https://libraries.mit.edu/akdc/2016/12/30/2016-on-archnet, last accessed on 8.8.2022.

• Ekincioglu, M. (author), 2021, Diversity and Inclusion in Historical Documentation of Multicultural Architecture Education in the U.S. in a Time of Pandemic, the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Research Forum, 2020.

https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Ekincioglu_report.pdf, last accessed on 2.10.2021.

Organizing team of the SAA-Research Forum: Carolyn Hank (U Tennessee Knoxville), Program Committee; Ardys Kozbial (Harvard University), Program Committee; Nance McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Forum Co-chair / Co-founder, Program Committee Co-chair; Gabriela . Redwine (Yale University), Program Committee; Kate Neptune (Harvard University) Forum Coordinator, Overall and Platforms; Kari Smith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Program Committee and Forum Lead Organizer; Heather Soyka (Kent State University), Forum Co-chair, Program Committee Co-chair; Rebecca C. Thayer (College of Charleston), Forum Coordinator, Posters and Technical Helen Tibbo (UNC Chapel Hill), Forum Co-founder, Program Committee.

• Ekincioglu, M. (architectural photographer & scholar), 2023, 887 architectural photographs (from iconic buildings in American architecture, time periods: 18th - 21st century), SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press, https://sah-archipedia.org, last accessed on 1.12.2023.

For all these photographs and their links, please see my publication, page 12-15.

• Ekincioglu, M. (guest ed.), 2023, "SAHARA Highlights: East Coast Public Interior Spaces", SAHARA, a digital image archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with Artstor and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Spafford, J., and Hinchman, M. (co-eds.), January 11, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2023/01/11/sahara-highlights-east-coast-public-interior-spaces, last accessed on 1.11.2023. (This publication features my 11 public interiors photographs from academic, cultural and historical institutions on East Coast and my texts on their significance at the intersection of public and climate, advanced technology, efficient use of energy, inclusion, diversity, accesibility, etc.).

For more:

http://meralekincioglu.com/16-publication.html

• Ekincioglu, M. (architectural photographer & scholar), 2018, 25 architecture photograghs (from iconic buildings in the US architecture, time periods: 18th - 21st century), SAHARA, a digital image archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with Artstor and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, https://sahara.artstor.org/#/login.

For more:

http://meralekincioglu.com/17-publication.html

• Ekincioglu, M., 2023, On East Coast Public Interior Spaces, “Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians” blog, posted by Jennifer Komar Olivarez, February 21; https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/2023/02/21/sahara-highlights-on-east-coast-public-interior-spaces/, last accessed on 2.22.2023.

Scholarly Publication

(On Ph.D. Dissertation)

Global Encyclopedia

Digital Publications

Bibliographic References R

Published Interview on

My Systematic Research

Published Research Report

On My Published Public Interiors Photographs by SAHARA

Published Architectural

Photographs

(SAH Archipedia, International Digital Encyclopedia)

Published Architectural and Interior Photographs

(SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive)

• Ekincioglu, M. (author), 2012, Tekeli-Sisa and Construction of the Design Architect’s Professional Role in Turkey (Tekeli-Sisa ve Tasarim Yapan Mimarin Profesyonel Rolunun Turkiye’de Insasi), ITU Dergisi/A, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul.

(Based on my in-depth Ph.D. dissertation research studies at Harvard and Columbia universities, my scholarly Ph.D. dissertation essay was officially submitted to the Istanbul Technical University's academic journal with written permission by the advisor, according to the university's Ph.D. rules and received editorial confirmation e-mail. Afterwards, the Istanbul Technical University's academic journal's relevant issue was not published by the university and without any explanation. Based on my in-depth Ph.D. dissertation research at Harvard and Columbia universities, I am the author of "the first" Ph.D. dissertation on practice history of "Tekeli-Sisa" established in Istanbul in 1954 and still actice with its young partners in Turkish architecture. With my critical analyses and archival research, my independent, in-depth and systematic scholarly essay on this scientific research subject is in-progress.).

• Ekincioglu, M. (for additional reference list), 2021, SAH Women in Architecture Bibliography,

https://sahwiabibliography.sah.hcommons.org, last accessed on 7.30.2022. (*)

As an invited member to the SAH-WiA-AG-Registers Committee established in December 2020, I

submitted my systematic and comprehensive research study on archival resources and bibliography on a. diverse women architects and b. diverse women in architecture by emails in January and February 2021. (total: 41 pages), and received a positive response as a contributor. My submitted and systematic archival resources on diverse women architects (January - February 2021) is also "the first" register of this Registers Committee on archives according to this SAH Affiliate Group's published meeting notes in October 2021.

Please see for my submitted systematic research study to this committee by e-mail:.

Ekincioglu, M. (researcher), “Diverse Women Architects and Diverse Women in Architecture in Archives / Collections”, my research conducted with my research problem and research method, and submitted to the Society of Architectural Historians-Women in Architecture Affiliated Group-Registers Committee by emails in January and February 2021.
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Please see for its full content:,

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352781712_Ekincioglu_M_2021_Diverse_Women_Architects_and_Diversity_in_Women_Architects_in_Archives_and_Collections_my_submitted_research_study_to_Society_of_Architecture_Historians_Women_in_Architecture_Affilia

Please see for the Society of Architectural Historians-Women in Architecture-Affiliate Group-Register Committee online meeting notes on my submitted, systematic research as their first register on archives: https://sahwomeninarchitectureaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/sah-wia-ag-registers-committee-fourth-virtual-meeting-agenda-october-15-2021, last accessed on 11.26.2021.; and

Please see: https://meralekincioglu.blogspot.com/2021/10/my-research-on-archival-sources-is.html

• Ekincioglu, M. (interviewee), 2020, “Archival Innovators: Dr. Meral Ekincioglu”, ArchivesAware!, Awareness and Outreach Resources for Archivists,

https://archivesaware.archivists.org/2020/03/17/archival-innovators-dr-meral-ekincioglu/, last accessed on 12.12.2021.

In this installation of Archival Innovators, SAA Committee on Public Awareness [COPA] member Rachel Seale interviews Dr. Meral Ekincioglu on her research project and its findings in regards to diversity and underrepresented architecture communities in archives at pioneering schools of architecture in the United States.

• My selection criteria of the following architectural buildings and their public & private interior spaces as articles for "SAH Archipedia" are their climate responsive design, efficient energy usage, innovative building operation systems-materials-details, integration of advanced technology into their designs for healthy and sustainable post-pandemic interior and exterior living spaces, and inclusive design strategy. All my encyclopedia articles are based on my on-site and research-based visits to the interior and exterior spaces of these architectural buildings. High quality architectural and interior photographs have been taken by me with permission and submitted to the editor. Their publication process is in-progress.

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), 2024, MIT.NANO, SAH Archipedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press, text and 33 high quality architectural and interior photographs, https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-017-0001, last accessed on 6.13.2024.
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• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), 2024, the Harvard University, Science and Engineering Complex, SAH Archipedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press, text and 20 high quality architectural and interior photographs, https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-025-0001, last accessed on 6.13.2024.
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• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), 2024, the Boston University, Center for Computing and Data Sciences, SAH Archipedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press, text and 22 high quality architectural and interior photographs, https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-025-0002, last accessed on 6.13.2024.
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• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), 2024, the Northeastern University, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex, SAH Archipedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press, text and 31 high quality architectural and interior photographs, https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-025-0003, last accessed on 6.13.2024.

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), The MIT Graduate Tower at Site 4. (I have electronically submitted my 1005 words article with my 43 high quality architectural and interior photographs to the editor of "SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press", in-progress).

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), The MIT Hayden Library Renovation. (I have electronically submitted my 833 words article with my 38 high quality architectural and interior photographs to the editor of "SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press", in-progress).

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), The Boston Public Library, Adams Street Branch. (I have electronically submitted my 565 words article with my 40 high quality architectural and interior photographs to the editor of "SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press", in-progress).

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. (I have electronically submitted my 619 words article with my 43 high quality architectural and interior photographs to the editor of "SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press", in-progress).

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), The Northeastern University, Interfaith Spiritual Center. (I have electronically submitted my 599 words article with my 21 high quality architectural and interior photographs to the editor of "SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press", in-progress).

• Ekincioglu, M. (author and photographer), The New MIT Museum. (I have electronically submitted my 1206 words article with my 45 high quality architectural and interior photographs to the editor of "SAH Archipedia, authoritative online encyclopedia, published for the Society of Architectural Historians by the University of Virginia Press", in-progress).

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2025, SAHARA Highlights: Water Towers, Spafford, J. and Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, April 28, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2025/04/28/sahara-highlights-water-towers, last accessed on April 29, 2025.

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2025, SAHARA Highlights: Architecture for DEI, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, March 11, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2025/03/11/sahara-highlights-architecture-for-dei, last accessed on March 12, 2025.

With my deep concerns on "diversity, equity and inclusion" in architecture and society, this SAHARA Highlights has been prepared by me. (Selection of the topic with all visual materials, research on relevant buildings/complexes and the text. The text has some edits by J. Keefer and J. Spafford).

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2025, SAHARA Highlights: Canada, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, February 19, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2025/02/19/sahara-highlights-canada, last accessed on February 19, 2025

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2025, SAHARA Highlights: Justice, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, January 23, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2025/01/23/sahara-highlights-justice, last accessed on January 24, 2025.

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2024, SAHARA Highlights: Design for Food Production, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, December 6, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/12/06/sahara-highlights-design-for-food-production, last accessed on December 6, 2024.

With my deep concerns on global food crisis and a substantial gap in (digital) architectural archives on this vital problem, this SAHARA Highlights has been prepared by me. (Selection of the topic with all visual materials, research on relevant buildings/complexes and the text. The text has some edits by J. Keefer and J. Spafford).

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2024, SAHARA Highlights: Ruins and Reconstructions, Spafford, J. and Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/11/18/sahara-highlights-ruins-and-reconstructions, last accessed on November 20th, 2024.

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2024, SAHARA Highlights: Brutalism, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, October 15, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/10/15/sahara-highlights-brutalism, last accessed on October 25, 2024.

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2024, SAHARA Highlights: Climate-Responsive Architecture, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (co-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, September 16, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/09/16/sahara-highlights-climate-responsive-architecture, last accessed on September 19th, 2024.

With my deep concerns on climate change and a substantial gap in (digital) architectural archives on this vital problem, this SAHARA Highlights has been prepared by me. (Selection of the topic with all visual materials and the text. The text has some edits by J. Spafford).

• Ekincioglu, M. (associate editor), 2024, SAHARA Highlights: Bathing, Spafford, J., Keefer, J. (c o-editors), SAHARA, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with JSTOR/ITHAKA, August 15, https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/08/15/sahara-highlights-bathing, last accessed on August 21, 2024.

• Ekincioglu, M. (co-moderator), 2024, Vienna & the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938, book talk by Michelle Jackson-Beckett, Ph.D., design historian, the incoming inaugural Curator of Rare Books at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library, and Research Committee member of Historic Interiors Affiliate Group-Society of Architectural Historians (HIG-SAH), Nasim Shiasi, Ph.D. (co-moderator & Research Committee member of HIG-SAH), an online event by the Research Committee of HIG-SAH, May 9th. (This event has been recorded by the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians and is going to be published on the relevant SAH’s digital platform).

https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/, last accessed on 5.8.2024.

• Ekincioglu, M. (panel chair, co-organizer), 2023, Health Equity in Architecture at the Intersection of Teaching, Archive and Curating, panelists: Aaron Davis, Ph.D., Lecturer, the University of South Australia; Julie Collins, Ph.D., Research Fellow and Curator, the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia; Elke Miedema, Ph.D., Researcher and Teacher, Inholland University of Applied Sciences; Nilay Evcil, Ph.D., Professor, Beykent University, Department of Architecture; Kadir Uyanik, M.Arch, co-founder of do[x]architecture; co-organizer: Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, November 4th.

https://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/opportunities/recent-opportunities/2023/11/04/default-calendar/health-equity-in-architecture-at-the-intersection-of-teaching-archive-and-curating, last accessed on 11.3.2023.

Its record link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsPvIjJ1xM, last accessed on 11.7.2023.

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• Ekincioglu, M. (Introduction, co-organization), 2023, Flow: At the Intersection of Archives and Historic Interiors, online panel, panelists (archivists / curators): Mari Nakahara, the Library of Congress; Esther -aka Mimi- Schmidt, the Centre for Historic Houses in India; Monika Platzer, the Architekturzentrum in Wien; moderator: Paola Ardizzola, Research Committee member, HIG-SAH & lecturer at Cardiff Met University; organization by the Research Committee of the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians (HIG-SAH), May 1st.

This is the first panel organized by "the Research Committee of the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians".

Its record by the same organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM3XOnNKKI0&t=925s, last accessed on 5.18.2023.

https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/2023/03/31/hig-event-flow-at-the-intersection-of-historic-interiors-and-archives, last accessed on 5.1.2023.

• Ekincioglu, M. (co-curator), 2022, "On Literature for a Changing Planet", speaker Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, the Multidisciplinary Climate Conversations Series by Citizen TALES Commons, June 21st, online.
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This multidisciplinary Climate Conversation Series has been initiated and co-curated by me to enrich scholarly perspective on the built environment with a focus on climate justice and its emergency. Recorded and published by Citizen TALES Commons, Cambridge-based, multidisciplinary and international scholarly community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOUuPNxdq5A, last accessed on 11.30.2022.

• Ekincioglu, M. (moderator, co-organizer), 2021, “Collective Memory of Diverse Women Architects: Its (Historical Documentation) Practice and Methods”, by Women Who Design, May 7th, https://wwd2021.com/diverse-women-artitects, last accessed on 7.30.2021.

Panelists: Mary Norman Woods, Professor Emerita at Cornell University, Department of Architecture, the first woman tenured in Cornell's architecture department, founded in 1871; Heather Isbell Schumacher, Archivist, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, Architectural Archives; Jessica Quagliaroli, Architecture Records Archivist at the Yale University Library, Manuscripts, and Archives; Maristella Casciato, the Senior Curator of the Architecture Collections at the Getty Research Institute in California.

(Recorded and published by "Women Who Design").

For the first panel question and discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZTAfC-9kI&t=2s, last accessed on 7.28.2021.
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For the second panel question and discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj-6FrpNWfs, last accessed on 7.28.2021.
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For the third panel question and discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0eOl_P_Glc, last accessed on 7.28.2021.

• Ekincioglu, M. (moderator), 2021, "Women in the Architecture Profession in Türkiye and Germany", online panel on the exhibition with the same title, panelists: Prof. Dr. Ing. Mary Pepchinski (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Ozlem Erdogdu Erkarslan (Izmir), curators of the exhibition, organization of the panel and exhibition by Goethe Institute, May 4th.
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(Recorded and published by Goethe Institute):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iolvFH7Lzco&t=0s, last accessed on 11.10.2022.

• Ekincioglu, M. (speaker), 2021, "Hacking! COVID-19: Science in Architecture and Urban Systems", online and English lecture, Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy (AURA) Istanbul, April 24th.

(Recorded and published by Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy -AURA- Istanbul):

https://youtu.be/r0pbqIGoUaY, last accessed on 4.27.2021.

• Ekincioglu, M. (introduction, co-organization), 2021, Data Feminism, speaker: Catherine D'Ignazio, The MIT-Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies, Assistant Professor & MIT - Data + Feminism Lab, Director, the Inaugural Citizen TALES Commons Online Lecture, co-sponsored by Emerson College’s Engagement Lab., January 27th.
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(Recorded and published by Citizen TALES Commons, Cambridge-based, multidisciplinary and international scholarly community):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvryu-_GZNw, last accessed on 11.30.2022.

• Ekincioglu, M. (speaker), 2019, “Diverse and Inclusive Data from Architectural Archives for Civic Engagement", WikiConference North America, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S., November 9. (It was a joint international conference presentation with Dr. Vassiliki Rapti and Dr. Diana Ramirez-Jasso, with the main title “Citizen TALES Commons: A Collaborative Multi-Disciplinary Model of Ethical, Reliable and Inclusive Production and Dissemination of Knowledge around Issues of Citizenship. Each speaker presented her own research project.).

(Recorded and published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology):

https://web.mit.edu/webcast/wiki/f19/141/index.html, last accessed on 11.9.2019.

• Ekincioglu, M. (panelist), 2018, Power (Panel title), A Convergence at the Confluence of Power, Identity and Design (event), The Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Women in Design, Cambridge, MA, U.S., November 3rd.

(Recorded and published by Harvard University):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZdEUcHhqk&t=72s, last accessed on 2.12.2019.

• Ekincioglu, M. (speaker), 2017, “The Grand Flirtation: Feminist Operation of Architecture at Princeton University in the 1960s-the 1970s", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woman and Gender Studies Program, Intellectual Forum Series, Cambridge, MA, U.S., October 19th.

(My one-hour presentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was recorded, and published by the Princeton University-Mudd Manuscript Library on their blog): https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2010/11/coeducation-at-the-graduate-school, last accessed on 8.14.2018

• Ekincioglu, M. (speaker), 2017, "Historical Construction of Turkish Women Architects in Postwar US.: A Missing Chapter in Feminist Architecture History", International Women in Architecture Symposium, Virginia Tech, Virginia, U.S.., March 24th.

https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/77397, last accessed on 11.9.2017.

* "The Register of Bibliographic References was created by Barbara Ann Opar, with technical support by Hannah Joelle Deichler, edited by Rebecca Siefert, Anna Sokolina, and Margaret Birney Vickery; with gratitude for additional reference lists to Harriet Harriss, Mari Nakahara, and Meral Ekincioglu; to Laura Sánchez Carrasco, the contributor of Spanish references section; for the first round of peer review and contribution—to members of SAH Women in Architecture Registers Committee: Laura Sánchez Carrasco, Gül Kale, Gillian Mahoney, Rebecca Siefert, Anna Sokolina, Nina Stritzler-Levine, and Margaret Birney Vickery; for the second round of peer review and contribution—to SAH WiA AG Officer Danielle S. Willkens.", https://sahwiabibliography.sah.hcommons.org, last accessed on 7.30.2022. As I noticed on June 1st, 2023, the content of this page has been changed without asking.