Distinguished Works 2025–2026 Fall reopens!

The department exhibition of works made in the 2025-2026 Fall semester design studios (IAED401, IAED301, IAED201, FA101), “Distinguished Works,” will reopen on Monday, May 11, 2026, at 17:30 in İhsan ve Ayser Doğramacı Bilim, Kültür ve Sanat Merkezi. Students and staff of IAED and all Bilkenters are welcome! Since 2011, each Spring, students, faculty, and staff …

Talk: “Architectural Histories of the -Global Sunbelt-” in conversation with Petros Phokaides

Join us on April 27th for the final installment of Architectural History and Theory Talks this semester, organized in this semester by Aslıhan Günhan (Architecture) and Semra Horuz (IAED). Date: Monday April 27. 2026Time: 12:30-13:30Place: FFB-22 The lecture presents the historical and theoretical framework of the edited volume Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes …

IAED Distinguished Works 2025-2026 Fall Exhibition 

Between April 6 and April 13, the exhibition “Distinguished Works” by students from the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design (IAED) was held at the FF Building.  The exhibition brought together projects, drawings, sketches and models created during the 2025–26 fall semester, reflecting the creativity and dedication of IAED students at all levels of the program. …

Summer Practice 2025-26 Spring Semester – Important Dates

STS – Application period: 22 January 2026 (08:30) – 15 May 2026 (17:30) Earliest internship start date: 1 June 2026Latest internship end date: 15 September 2026 STS – Deadline for report upload: 22 February 2026 (For Enrolled Students Only) For detailed information, please review the A1-290 and A1-390 documents (Course Introduction) carefully and check Summer …

IAED Researchers to Present at CII 2026 Symposium

MFA and PhD researchers from Bilkent IAED will present two papers at the Current Issues in Interiors (CII) 2026 Symposium, to be held on 15–17 April 2026 at Yaşar University, İzmir. The symposium addresses interdisciplinary perspectives on interior architecture through three thematic tracks: Adaptive Reuse for Interiors; Design, Culture, Environment and Behavior, and Environmental Systems …

Book Talk: “Architecture and Social Sustainability: Understanding The New Paradigm” in conversation with Alexandra Staub

2026 Spring Architectural History and Theory Talks will hold its second installment in 2026 Spring semester with Alexandra Staub, professor of architecture at Penn State University, College of Arts and Architecture, for a book talk titled “Architecture and Sustainability: Understanding the New Paradigm” on April 2nd, 2026, Thursday at 17:30. The talk series is organized …

Talk: “Building Pera, Burning Pera: The 1870 Fire and the “Imaginary Lines” of Urbanization” by Mehmet Kentel

2026 Spring Architectural History and Theory Talks will begin with K. Mehmet Kentel’s lecture “Building Pera, Burning Pera: The 1870 Fire and the “Imaginary Lines” of Urbanization”, in March 27, 2026, Friday, at 12:30 in FFB-05. The talk series is organized by Aslıhan Günhan (Architecture) and Semra Horuz (IAED). On 5 June 1870, the heart …

IAED252 – Material Seminar with Petra the Flooring Co.

In scope of the annual material seminar series made for IAED 252: Construction and Materials II course, interior architect Asrın Uçar, interior architect Ayça Özger Yalman, Civil Engineer (MBA) Derviş Yıldız, and architect Hüseyin Kağan Öztoklu from Petra the Flooring Co. gave a seminar on the floor finishing materials in Mithat Çoruh Hall on March …