Burak Erdim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Design, NC State University, College of Design, School of Architecture, (434) 825-3984, berdim@ncsu.edu EDUCATION 2012/ December Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History. Dissertation Title: Middle East Technical University and Revolution: Development Planning and Architectural Education during the Cold War, 1950-1962; Dissertation Committee: Sheila Crane (advisor); Richard Guy Wilson; Dell Upton, (UCLA); Gülsüm Baydar (Izmir University of Economics). Major Field: Modern Architecture and Urbanism. Minor Fields: Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean World from 900-1600; and, Architecture in the United States. 2005/ May Master of Architecture. Thesis title: A House of Friendship in Istanbul: A House for Intimating Subjects in a Globalizing World. Advisors: Peter Waldman and William Morrish. 2004/ May Master of Architectural History, May 2004. Thesis title: Lost in Translation: The Encounter between Bruno Taut and the Early Turkish Republic 1936-38. Advisor: Professor Cammy Brothers Faculty Book Award for Superior Performance in the Study of Architectural History Leading to a Degree of Master of Architectural History, May 2004. Also see profile: http://www.virginia.edu/art/artarch/program/gstudents/erdim.html Mississippi State University 1995/ May Bachelor of Architecture Thesis title: A Retail and Wholesale Bakery in Jackson, Mississippi Juror s book award (Guest Juror: Brigitte Shim). ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION 2002/ August State of Mississippi. License No. 3547. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2011-12 Dissertation Writing Year Fellowship. Highly competitive, Departments of Art and Architectural History,. 2008/ Summer Dumas Malone Research Fellowship. Provided funding to continue research in Turkey on a particular set of documents. 2007-08 Fulbright Research Grantee in Turkey. Advisor and host institution during grant period: Professor Gülsüm Baydar, Chair, Department of Architecture, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
Burak Erdim--CV--April, 2013 2 2006-07 DuPont Fellowship and State Reserve Fellowship. Graduate tuition support provided through the McIntire Department of Art. 2005-06 DuPont and Davidge Fellowships. Graduate tuition support provided through the McIntire Department of Art. 2004-05 Kenan Fellow, School of Architecture,. The Kenan Fellowship is given to five graduate students annually who serve as teaching assistants in Arch 101, Professor Peter Waldman s foundation course on Architecture, and to contribute to the advancement of the understanding of the Thomas Jefferson s Academical Village in the 21 st Century. Fellowship recipients provide a lecture in the class, based on their research, in addition to leading weekly discussion groups. They also contribute their research to an edited volume currently compiled by Professor Waldman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture at UVa. PUBLICATIONS forthcoming Transnational Communities: Conceptualizing Training and Education in the Cold War Middle East, 1954-61, in Planning Perspectives. forthcoming De-nationalizing Revolution in the Cold War Middle East, 1956-1961, in International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA). 2007 From Germany, to Japan and Turkey: Modernity, Locality and Bruno Taut s Transnational Details from 1933-38. Lunch 2, Journal of the School of Architecture, (2007): 103-115. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2013/ Feburary From Policy to Training of Planners: Formulating a New Strategy for Development, 1954-56, Eighth Savannah Symposium, Modernities across Time and Space, SCAD, February, 2013. 2012/October Transnational Communities: Spatializing Training and Education in the Cold War Middle East, 1954-61, in a panel entitled, Architecture and Urban Development in the Middle East, at the Urban History Association Sixth Biennial Conference, The Cosmopolitan Metropolis, New York City, October 25-28, 2012. 2012/ April Role of the Expert: Charles Abrams in Ankara, Turkey, October 1954, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Meeting in Detroit, April 2012. 2010/ February (Re)Locating Anatolia during the Cold War: Cevat Erder and the Establishment of METU Department of Restoration and Preservation of Historical Monuments, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, February, 2010. 2009/ October Architectural Education, Postwar Ideology, and the Turkish State: Designing Model Communities for the Middle East, 1950-60, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) annual meeting in Jackson, MS, Oct. 2009. 2007/ February From Empire to Republic: Continuities of Ottoman Imperial Socio-Spatial Practices in the Modern Capital of the Early Turkish Republic, Fifth Savannah Symposium, SCAD, Feb. 2007. 2005/ February From Germany, to Japan and Turkey: Modernity, Locality and Bruno Taut s Transnational Details from 1933-38, Fourth Savannah Symposium, SCAD, February, 2005.
Burak Erdim--CV--April, 2013 3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012/ August - Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Design, North Carolina State University, College of Design present ARC 441 History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism ARC 590 Modernism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East ARC 202 Architectural Design 2009/ Aug - Visiting Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University. 2011/ May School of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD). ARC 2536 & 2546 - Second Year Architectural Studios; fall & spring, 2009-2011; Coordinator of Second Year Studios, fall 2010, with field trips to Washington, DC and Charlottesville, VA. ARC 4990-04 - Postwar Movements in Architecture and Planning, elective seminar course, fall 2009. ARC 2313 - History of Architecture I (from Pre-history to 1400), Spring 2010 & 2011. Lecturer, School of Architecture and McIntire Department of Art 2009/ spring ARTH 491_4, Architecture, Planning and Postwar Ideology, undergraduate level seminar course. 2009/ spring Arch 302, Architectural Design, Third Year Undergraduate Studios (Coordinator: William Williams). 2008/ fall Arch 301, Architectural Design, Third Year Undergraduate Studios (Coordinator: Peter Waldman). 2006/ fall Arch 201, Introduction to Architectural Design, Second Year Undergraduate Studios, (Coordinator: Anselmo Canfora) TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS School of Architecture 2006/ spring Survey of Architectural History, from Renaissance to Modern; Professor: David Rifkind. 2005 & 2004/ Drawing and design class for the incoming Architectural History students; Professor: Edward Ford. summer 2005/ fall Survey of Architectural History, from Pre-history to the Middle Ages; Professor: Cammy Brothers. 2004 & 2003/ Architectural Theory and Analysis; Professors: Phoebe Crisman and Robin Dripss. fall 2004/ fall Lessons of the Lawn: Architecture as a Covenant with the World, Again. Professor: Peter Waldman. 2003/ spring Modern Architecture Survey. Professor: John Maciuika.
Burak Erdim--CV--April, 2013 4 RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS School of Architecture 2007/ spring Research assistant to Professor Sanda Iliescu (editor) and Professor Joan Ockman during the preparation of the edited volume, The Hand and the Soul: Ethics and Aesthetics in Architecture and Art (UVa Press, 2008). 2005/ summer Organized and documented the papers of Meade Palmer, Landscape Architect, Special Collections Library, UVa. 2004/ spring Research assistant to Professor John Maciuika during the preparation of his book entitled, Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), School of Architecture. I prepared several maps, drawings, and a table showing an extensive list and information on the hand-craft schools in the late 19 th -Century Wilhelmine Prussia. 2004/ spring Student supervisor, Fine Arts Library,. GUEST LECTURES 2013/ February Presenting the Making of the Middle East Technical University, Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Department at Duke University, Informal Lecture Series. 2008/ March From Empire to Republic: Continuities of Ottoman Imperial Socio-Spatial Practices in the Modern Capital of the Early Turkish Republic, Architectural History Lecture Series, Middle East Technical University (METU). 2007/ Oct Identities, Encounters, and other Spatial Experiments, 1995-2005, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey. 2006/ March The Imperial Ambitions of Süleyman the Magnificent, Ar H 334/734,. 2006/ Feb Sinan s Istanbul: Remaking of an Imperial Capital, Ar H 201/701,. 2005/ Sep & A House of Friendship in Istanbul, Master s Thesis Research and Design project in Architecture, in SARC 600, Oct Common Course; and in Arch 101, Lessons of the Lawn,. REFEREE 2010/ fall European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) Conference, Istanbul: Refereed Conference Paper Abstracts. ACADEMIC SERVICE 2012/ fall NC State University, College of Design, School of Architecture, Intern Development Program Coordinator present NC State University, College of Design, Internationalization Task Force NC State University, Middle East Studies Committee
Burak Erdim--CV--April, 2013 5 2009/ fall - Fine Arts Library Committee, College of Architecture, Art, and Design, Mississippi State University. 2011/ spring 2010/ fall Liaison between Sasaki Associates (firm working on the new master plan of the MSU campus) and the schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Engineering at MSU in setting up lectures and workshops for students regarding the development of the master plan. 2009/ spring Admissions Committee, School of Architecture, U.Va. 2005/ spring Served as a student member of the Admissions Committee, School of Architecture, U.Va. ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS 2003/ June Victorian Society in America Summer School in Newport, Rhode Island. Received full scholarship and served as a teaching assistant to Professor Richard Guy Wilson. LANGUAGES Turkish (native speaker) German (basic reading knowledge) MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS 2008/ spring- Society of Architectural Historians. Present 2009-2010 College Art Association. 2003-04 Vice-President of Thomas Jefferson Society of Architectural Historians, 2003-04. 2003-present 2002-present Member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Student Member of Thomas Jefferson Society of Architectural Historians. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and SELECTED AWARDS 1998/ July - Eley Associates/Architects, Intern Architect, Jackson, Mississippi. 2002/ July 1997/ July - Jackson Community Design Center, Intern Architect, Mississippi State University, Jackson, Mississippi. 1998/ July Mississippi-AIA Design Award for the Camp I. Hay Pavilion, Boys and Girls Club (with Professor David Perkes, currently the Director of the Gulf Coast Design Studio, Biloxi, Mississippi). 1995/ May Easom Associates/Architects, Intern Architect, Clinton, Mississippi. 1997/ July