YEM KITABEVİ AUTHORS AND BOOKS AT YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY FOR 5 DAYS!

The YEM Kitabevi Book Stand, with thousands of books offered at special discounts and insightful talks by YEM Yayın authors, will be at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Architecture for 5 full days between March 2-6, 2026.

In addition to YEM Yayın books, books on architecture, interior architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape architecture, culture, and art from numerous publishers such as Arketon, Stoneline, Ninova, Mimarlık Vakfı, Literatür, Sel, and İletişim will be offered to YTÜ academics and students who wish to browse and examine them, with discounts of up to 50%.

EVENT PROGRAM

Boğaçhan Dündaralp
Monday, March 2: 12:30-14:00
BOĞAÇHAN DÜNDARALP
"Exploring What Architecture is Capable Of"
Boğaçhan Dündaralp, who realized that the question "What kind of architect will I be?" wasn't a matter of choice but rather of pursuing the question and exploring himself and his capabilities within architecture when he was a new architecture student, invites architecture students, professionals, and enthusiasts to discuss and collectively seek the answer to this question...
Banu Uçak - Ömer Selçuk Baz
Tuesday, March 3: 12:30-14:00
BANU UÇAK – ÖMER SELÇUK BAZ
"Simple Things: Dialogue"
"Yıldızlı" architect Banu Uçak and Ömer Selçuk Baz will mutually examine and present to the audience both the intellectual foundation and the design and construction processes of Yalın Mimarlık's two-decade-long architectural production. Uçak and Baz will open up for discussion the works of a team striving for original architectural production in today's rather challenging architectural environment, connecting them with fundamental architectural issues...
Hikmet Temel Akarsu
Wednesday, March 4: 12:30-14:00
HİKMET TEMEL AKARSU
"Fields that Nourish Architecture: Literature, Cinema, Philosophy, Opera, Ballet"
In this talk, Hikmet Temel Akarsu will put forward the idea that increasing artistic and cultural weight in the sources that nourish architecture and design will positively affect the imagination of designers. He explains that designers, whose image worlds are enriched by the architectural universes created in the fields of literature, cinema, philosophy, opera, and ballet, can develop and reach the intellectual level where "architecture is not just about building structures"...
Aykut Köksal
Thursday, March 5: 14:00-15:30
AYKUT KÖKSAL
" 'Space' in Every Context: An Autobiographical Talk"
In his conference, Aykut Köksal will discuss the phenomenon of "space," which plays a constructive role in various disciplines. Taking his own intellectual journey from the 1970s to the present as a central theme, Köksal will explain "spatiality" in the contexts of architecture, cinema, theater, visual arts, contemporary art, music, novels, and poetry, as well as "synchronicity" as a generative concept.
Gürkan Akay - Önder Kul
Friday, March 6: 12:30-14:00
GÜRKAN AKAY – ÖNDER KUL
"Witnessing the Last 30 Years of Contemporary Turkish Architecture"
Gürkan Akay is an architect and photographer who, from the days he began his architectural education, observed the built environment through an architect's eyes and simultaneously documented it with his lens. Önder Kul, much like Banu Uçak, is a "Yıldızlı" architect and one of the architects of many structures that Akay witnessed and documented on site. While sharing their thoughts and experiences regarding architecture, the two architects will also engagingly convey the relationship between the architect who designs a building and the architect who visualizes and communicates that built structure to the public.