ArchiDesign Talks - Burçin Fatma Tunç Ildır

ArchiDesign Talks Hosts Its Second Guest!
On 14 November, we will host Burçin Fatma Tunç Ildır with her talk titled “Learning from Japan’s Shared Houses” .

Burçin Fatma Tunç Ildır graduated from the Department of Architecture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2011. During her undergraduate studies, she spent one semester at Hogeschool van Amsterdam as part of the Erasmus exchange program. She presented her master's thesis, completed in 2015 in the Architectural Design Program at Istanbul Technical University (“The Role of Participation in Polyphonic Spaces: The Kuzguncuk and Yedikule Orchards”), at the Spaces & Flows Conferencein Chicago the same year. Since 2019, she has been pursuing her doctoral studies in the Department of Interior Architecture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. As part of her doctoral research, she conducted fieldwork in Japan on shared housing models in August 2025.

After seven years of professional experience in various architectural offices, including Nevzat Sayın and Selda Baltacı Architecture Studios, she began her academic career in 2019. She currently works as a Lecturer in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Haliç University. Her research interests include participatory design approaches, the traditional Turkish house, the traditional Japanese house and shared housing models in Japan.