Ahsen Özsoy

Professor of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University

Ahsen Özsoy studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). She completed her PhD (1983) at ITU Faculty of Architecture, received full professorship in 1995 and is still teaching in the same institution. She has conducted architectural design courses, and theoretical courses such as housing research methodologies, psychology and architecture, housing phenomenon. Her research studies and publications have focused on topics of housing quality; modernity and housing; squatter settlements, urban transformation and housing design; earthquake, housing and woman's role; man-environment studies and architectural education, creative city-creative university relations. She has been responsible for the design and interior design of educational and residential projects and has received National Architectural Awards of Turkish Chamber of Architects (in 2010 and 2014). Administratively, she has served as Director of Institute of Social Sciences and Vice Rector of ITU.