DENİZ AVCI

IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS

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Deniz Avci is an Associate Professor of Architectural History (ÜAK – Turkish Interuniversity Council, 2025). Cultural heritage preservation specialist, interior architect and environmental designer (MSc, METU; BSc, Baskent University) and architectural historian (PhD, METU) Associate Professor Dr. Deniz Avci (Izmir University of Economics, IAED) specializes on the architectural historiography and conservation of the twentieth-century Modern Movement architecture / interiors / furniture in Turkey by the assessment of different building typologies, especially housing and healthcare architecture, and utilizes films as archives in her research.

 

Her PhD dissertation (2018) titled ‘Housing the modern nation: The transformation of residential architecture in Ankara during the 1920s’ contributed to the missing gap in the literature of the 1920s’ housing in Ankara. Avci is a researcher in the projects titled ‘Architects who left their marks in Ankara’ and ‘DATUMM – Documenting and Archiving Modern Turkish Furniture’, and a committee member in ‘docomomo_turkey Interior Design’.

 

She is currently co-leading two projects, one titled ‘Architecture of Convalescence: Mapping the Sanatorium Heritage of Turkey’ supported by the Turkish Architects’ Association-1927 with Modern Architecture Research Award and the other titled ‘Between Medicine and Architecture in Mid-Century Turkey: Ankara’s Atatürk (Keçiören) Sanatorium’ supported by VEKAM with Ankara Research Awards.

 

Avci is an editorial assistant in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (Intellect - IJIA).