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“Abdel Moneim Mostafa”
Reputations Series, Architectural Review, Summer 2024
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“Architecture in the Age of Reparations: Rethinking Race and Commemoration Spaces”
Edited by Pari Riahi, et. al. Multiplicity
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“The Verandah between Climate Determinism and Climate Consciousness: Colonial Comfort or Self Determination?”
Nka 54 Journal of Contemporary African Art (May 2024): 51-63
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"Democracy and War: The University of Baghdad between Collaboration and National Competition"
Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International, Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman (eds.) (peer-reviewed)
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“Architecture and Resettler Nationalism: Demographic Engineering during and after the Christian-Muslim Partition of 1923"
Special issue: Approaching Architecture, edited by Ruba Kana’an and Avinoam Shalem
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“Book Review: Architecture of Co-Existence: Building Pluralism. Edited by Azra Akšamija (Geneva: Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Berlin: ArchiTangle, 2020)”
Journal of Islamic Architecture, (peer-reviewed) 13:1 (January 2024)
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“Partition and an Anti-Xenophobic Architectural Historiography”
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Pakistan, Turkey and their European Diasporas, Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi (eds.) (peer-reviewed)
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“Kreuzberg and an Anti-Discriminatory Architectural Historiography”
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Pakistan, Turkey and their European Diasporas, Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi (eds.) (peer-reviewed)
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“Anti-Immigrant Regulations, Demographic Engineering and Abolishment Activism in Naomi Paik’s Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary”
Avery Review, (April 2023)
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“Decolonize or Redistribute? Abdel Moneim Mustafa and Mid-century Modernism in Sudan”
Find and Tell Elsewhere
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Exhibition Catalog Review: “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985. Edited by Martino Stierli, Anoma Pieris, Sean Anderson (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2022)”
Drawing Matter
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“Intertwined Histories: A Conversation on Open Architecture An interview with Esra Akcan”
Interview by Jorge Mejía, Klaske Havik and Memet Charum, Special Issue on “Open Spaces in Latin American Cities”
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“Berlin Trilogy”
Special Issue on “Stories Past and Present” in Left Cultures No.1 (2022)
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“Writing Open Architecture as a book on Human Rights (and against Nation-States)”
Special Issue on “Open Architecture: Tradition, Possibilities and Shortcomings”
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“Architecture, Justice and the Theories of Rights”
Whatever Became of Architectural Theory? Elie Haddad (ed.)
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“An Unlikely Decolonizer”
Reprint of Architettura nei Paesi Islamici of Venice Architecture Biennale, Helen Thomas (ed.)
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“Istanbul and the Architecture Effect in Times of Cronyism”
Iftikhar Dadi and Ayesha Jatoi, (eds.), The Lahore Biennale 01 Reader
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“Workers in their Kreuzberg Apartments: Introduction to Sohrab Shahid-Saless’ Movie Far From Home”
Pujan Karambeigi (ed.) (Vienna: saxpublishers, 2021). Also read as an introduction to film screening in ‘Curated By’ Biennale in Vienna
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Book Review
Book Review: Christina Schwenkel, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam Book Review: Christina Schwenkel, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2020)
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“A Global History for the Age of Reparations”
GAHTC Theorizing the Global Symposium Deliverables, Mark Jarzombek, Eliana AbuHamdi Murchie, Vikramāditya Prakāsh (eds.), 2021
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“Antallagi /Mübadele Ships: Visual Documents of Forced Migration Across the Aegean Sea”
The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art, Sean Roberts, Radha Dalal, Jochen Sokoly (eds.)
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“News from the Living Room: Immigrant Agency in Urban Housing”
Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh, Hilde Heynen (eds.)
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“Migrant Berlin and Multiplying the Voices of Architecture”
Anything Goes. Exhibition Catalogue at Berlinische Galerie 29.1.2021—16.8.2021 Ursula Müller, Christian Monschke and Antonia Wolff (eds.)
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“How will we live together?”
Catalog of 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Hashim Sarkis (ed.)
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“Erasing History at the Hagia Sophia”
Berkeley Forum, July 27, 2020
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“How to Build a Better World”
Harvard Gazette—Radcliffe April 28, 2020
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“Grief and the Ethics of Memorials”
Pidgin Magazine. Princeton University School of Architecture No. 27 (2020): 92-104
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“Homo oeconomicus of the ‘New Turkey’: Urban Development of Istanbul in the 2000s”
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the present, Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson (eds)
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“Open Architecture, Rightlessness and Citizens to Come”
Race and Modern Architecture, Irene Cheng, Charles Davis, Mabel Wilson, (eds.)
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“Letter from Berlin”
Tribune, Owen Hatherley (ed.)
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“How does architecture heal? AKM as Palimpsest and Ghost”
South Atlantic Quarterly 118/1, special issue edited by Bülent Küçük and Ceren Özselçuk
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“The Open Architecture to Come: An Interview with Esra Akcan”
Interview by Vando Borghi and Amir Djalali, European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL)
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“What Has Architectural History Done About Recent Immigration Policies?”
SAH Blog
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Book Presentation for “Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg”
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“The Immigrant Continent”
Stedelijk Studies: Art History, Design, Theory, Spring 2018
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“Etimesgut Mosque, Ankara, Turkey”
SOS Brutalism
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“Writing a Global History through Translation: An Afterword on Pedagogical Perspectives”
Modes of Architectural Translation: Objects and Acts, Karen Koehler and Jeffrey Saletnik (eds.)
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“The Time of Translation: Victor Burgin and Sedad Eldem in Virtual Conversation”
Time in the History of Art: Temporality Chronology and Anachrony, Dan Karlholm, Keith Moxey (eds.)
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“Book Review: Ahmet Ersoy: Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary”
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS
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“Translation Theory and the Intertwined Histories of Building for Self-Governance”
Terms of Appropriation, Ana Miljacki, Amanda Lawrance (eds.)
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“Housing and Human Rights”
Nagele and METU: A Comparative Research on Modern Housing, edited by Ayşen Savaş, Agnes van der Meij
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"Migration of Words”
Traduttore, Traditore, Karen Greenwalt and Katja Rivera (eds.), Exhibition Catalog
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“The Weight of the Ideal Architectural Photograph”
Contemporary Turkish Architecture (Istanbul: Nurus, 2017): 10-11
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“Book Review: Zeynep Kezer, Building Modern Turkey, and Meltem Gürel (ed.), Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey”
Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 76, no.4 (December 2017): 555-557
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“Translations of Architecture in West Asia during the Twentieth Century”
The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History Series, Gülru Necipoğlu, Finbarr Barry Flood (eds.)
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“The Gate of the Bosporus: Early Photographs of Istanbul and the Dolmabahçe Palace”
The Indigenous Lens: Early Photography in Near and Middle East, Markus Ritter, Staci Gem Scheiwiller (eds.)
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“Modern Design in Turkey”
Encyclopedia of Asian Design
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“Society of Political Images: Centric and Common Proliferation of Photography”
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 28 (Wolfsonian Institute), guest edited by Sibel Bozdoğan (December 2016): 88-111
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“Kreuzberg 10963: Living and Dying in the Asihaus”
Berlin Journal no. 30 (Fall 2016): 6-11.
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“Modernity as Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace?”
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East: From Napoleon to ISIS, Nasser Rabbat and Pamela Karimi (eds.)
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“Exit Implies Entries Lament: Open Architecture in John Hejduk’s IBA-1984/87 Immigrant Housing”
Notes on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded, Gevork Hartoonian (ed.)
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Essay for “The Young in Architecture” Special Dossier
Dossier edited by Esra Kahveci
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“The ‘Occupy’ Turn in Global City Paradigm: The Architecture of AK Party’s Istanbul and the Gezi Movement”
Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol.2, no.2 (November 2015): 359-378
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“Open Architecture as Adventure Game: John Hejduk ın a Noncitizen District”
Perspecta 48, Yale Architectural Journal Amnesia issue, Summer 2015, pp. 128-144
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“Is a Global History of Architecture Displayable? A Historiographical Perspective on the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and Louvre Abu Dhabi”
Art Margins, vol.4, no.1 (January 2015): 79-101
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“Open Architecture in Berlin-Kreuzberg”
ART PAPERS (January/February 2015): 34-41
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“Can the Immigrant Speak? Autonomy and Participation in IBA 1984/87”
The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art, Chris Dähne, Rixt Hoekstra, Carsten Ruhl (eds.)
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“A Manifesto for Collecting and Translating Manifestoes”
The Future is Not What It Used To Be/Gelecek Artik Eskisi Gibi Değil. Catalog of Istanbul Design Biennial 2014, Zoe Ryan, Meredith Carruthers, (eds.)
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“Book Review: Debating Orientalism”
Turkish Review, vol. 4, no. 4 (2014): 468-469
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“Exhibition Review: Environments and Counter Environments at the Graham Foundation”
Journal of Architectural Education vol. 67, no. 2 (October 2013
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“Modern and Contemporary Architecture in North Africa and West Asia"
“Modern and Contemporary Architecture in North Africa and West Asia”
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“Book Review: The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City”
Insight Turkey Vol. 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013)
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“Global Conflict and Global Glitter: Architecture of West Asia”
Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (1960-2010) Elie Haddad and David Rifkind (eds.)
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“Postcolonial Theories in Architecture”
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (1960-2010) Elie Haddad and David Rifkind (eds.)
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“Translations in Architecture” in round table organized by Zeynep Çelik
International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no.3 (August 2013): 578-580
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“Channels and Items of Translation”
Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn, Aruna D’Souza, Jill Casid (eds.)
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“Off the Frame: The Panoramic City Albums of Istanbul”
Photography’s Orientalism, Ali Behdad, Luke Gartlan (ed.)
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"Le Corbusier and the Legacy of Istanbul’s Photographic Panoramas"
L’invention d’un architecte: Le voyage en Orient de Le Corbusier, R. Amirante, B. Kütükçüoğlu, P. Tournikiotis, Y.Tsiomis, eds.
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“Urban Renewal and its Discontents: Kreuzberg-IBA’ 84/87”
In Istanbul Design Biennale Catalogue (Istanbul: IKSV, 2012)
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“Immigration, Participation and IBA 84/87”
25 Jahre Internationale Bauausstellung in Berlin 1987 Ein Höhepunkt des europäischen Städtebaus, Harald Bodenschatz, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Wolfgang Sonne (eds.)
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“Book Review: Orienting Istanbul and Streets of Memory”
International Journal of Islamic Architecture
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“Exhibition Review: Anne Tyng, Inhabiting Geometry”
Vol. 71, no.1 (March 2012): 133-135
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“A Building with Many Speakers: Turkish ‘Guest Workers’ and Alvaro Siza’s Bonjour Tristesse Housing for IBA-Berlin”
The Migrant’s Time, Saloni Mathur (ed.)
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“Translating Architectural Knowledge: Bruno Taut’s Siedlung Seminar in Istanbul"
Türkisch-deutscher Kulturkontakt und Kulturtransfer: Kontroversen und Lernprozesse, Şeyda Özil, Michael Hofmann, Yasemin Dayıoğlu Yücel (eds.)
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“Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum"
New German Critique 110 (Summer 2010): 153-179
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“Book Review. Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present”
Journal of Architectural Education
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“Civilizing Housewives versus Participatory Users: Margarete Schütte Lihotzky in the Employ of the Turkish Nation State”
Cold War Kitchen. Americanization, Technology and European Users, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachman (eds)
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“Nomads and Migrants: A Comparative Reading of Sedad Eldem’s and Le Corbusier’s Travel Diaries”
Travel Space and Architecture, Jilly Traganou, Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Samer Akkach (eds.)
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“Reading the Generic City: Retroactive Manifestoes for Global Cities of the Twenty-first Century”
Perspecta Yale Architectural Journal
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“Reciprocal Translations of Garden City Housing”
CENTROPA, Vol. 7. No.2, May 2007, pp. 163-179
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“Built at Night”
PIN-UP Magazine, No.2
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“Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut’s Translations out of Germany”
New German Critique 99, Vol. 33, No.3 Special Issue on “Modernism after Postmodernism”
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“Melancholies of Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk”
World Literature Today, Vol. 80, No.6, November-December 2006, pp. 39-43
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“Ambiguities of Transparency and Privacy in Seyfi Arkan’s Houses for the New State”
METU Journal of Architecture, Ankara, Spring 2006, pp.25-49
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“Melancholy and the ‘Other’”
Eurozine Cultural Journals.
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“The Siedlung and the Mahalle. Intertwined Histories of Neighborhood”
Eurozine Cultural Journals
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“The Global Housing Question”
Architect’s Newspaper 18, 11.2.2005, p.17
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“World, Open City?”
Architectural Design (AD), Special Issue on Islam and Architecture, guest editor: Sabiha Foster
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“Manfredo Tafuri’s Theory of Architectural Avant-Garde”
Journal of Architecture, Vol.7, No.2 (2002), pp. 135-170
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“Critical Practice in the Global Era. Question Concerning ‘Other’ Geographies”
Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2002, pp. 37-58
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“Golden Lion Goes to Africa, via Belgium”
Architect’s Newspaper, No.16, 10.5.2004, pp. 9-10
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Book Review: “One Woman’s Place: Book Review of Mary McLeod (ed), Charlotte Perriand”
Architect’s Newspaper, No.13, 7.27.2004, p.11
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“Book Review: Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building”
International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 2004, pp. 139-140
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“Americanization and Anxiety. Istanbul Hilton Hotel by SOM and Eldem”
Proceedings for 2001 ACSA International Conference, Istanbul, June 15-19, 2001
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“Orientalism and Melancholy. Bruno Taut in the East”
Proceedings for 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000
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“Glass Symbolism, Experiential Transparency and Privacy in Maison de Verre”
Proceedings for 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000 and 1999 ACSA West Central Regional Meeting, Fargo, September 24-26, 1999.
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“Letter to A-NY-Time”
With Ş. Yalınay, AnyTime, ed. C. Davidson