• “Abdel Moneim Mostafa”

    Reputations Series, Architectural Review, Summer 2024

  • “Architecture in the Age of Reparations: Rethinking Race and Commemoration Spaces”

    Edited by Pari Riahi, et. al. Multiplicity

  • “The Verandah between Climate Determinism and Climate Consciousness: Colonial Comfort or Self Determination?”

    Nka 54 Journal of Contemporary African Art (May 2024): 51-63

  • "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)

  • “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

  • “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)

  • “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) 

  • “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)

  • “Anti-Immigrant Regulations, Demographic Engineering and Abolishment Activism in Naomi Paik’s Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary”

    Avery Review, (April 2023)

  • “Decolonize or Redistribute? Abdel Moneim Mustafa and Mid-century Modernism in Sudan”

    Find and Tell Elsewhere

  • 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

  • “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”

  • “Berlin Trilogy”

    Special Issue on “Stories Past and Present” in Left Cultures No.1 (2022)

  • “Writing Open Architecture as a book on Human Rights (and against Nation-States)”

    Special Issue on “Open Architecture: Tradition, Possibilities and Shortcomings”

  • “Architecture, Justice and the Theories of Rights”

    Whatever Became of Architectural Theory? Elie Haddad (ed.)

  • “An Unlikely Decolonizer”

    Reprint of Architettura nei Paesi Islamici of Venice Architecture Biennale, Helen Thomas (ed.)

  • “Istanbul and the Architecture Effect in Times of Cronyism”

    Iftikhar Dadi and Ayesha Jatoi, (eds.), The Lahore Biennale 01 Reader

  • “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

  • 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)

  • “A Global History for the Age of Reparations”

    GAHTC Theorizing the Global Symposium Deliverables, Mark Jarzombek, Eliana AbuHamdi Murchie, Vikramāditya Prakāsh (eds.), 2021

  • “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.)

  • “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.)

  • “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.)

  • “How will we live together?”

    Catalog of 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Hashim Sarkis (ed.) 

  • “Erasing History at the Hagia Sophia”

    Berkeley Forum, July 27, 2020

  • “How to Build a Better World”

    Harvard Gazette—Radcliffe April 28, 2020

  • “Grief and the Ethics of Memorials”

    Pidgin Magazine. Princeton University School of Architecture No. 27 (2020): 92-104

  • “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)

  • “Open Architecture, Rightlessness and Citizens to Come”

    Race and Modern Architecture, Irene Cheng, Charles Davis, Mabel Wilson, (eds.)

  • “Letter from Berlin”

    Tribune, Owen Hatherley (ed.)

  • “How does architecture heal? AKM as Palimpsest and Ghost”

    South Atlantic Quarterly 118/1, special issue edited by Bülent Küçük and Ceren Özselçuk

  • “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)

  • “What Has Architectural History Done About Recent Immigration Policies?”

    SAH Blog

  • Book Presentation for “Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg”

  • “The Immigrant Continent”

    Stedelijk Studies: Art History, Design, Theory, Spring 2018

  • “Etimesgut Mosque, Ankara, Turkey”

    SOS Brutalism

  • “Writing a Global History through Translation: An Afterword on Pedagogical Perspectives”

    Modes of Architectural Translation: Objects and Acts, Karen Koehler and Jeffrey Saletnik (eds.)

  • “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.)

  • “Book Review: Ahmet Ersoy: Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary”

    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS

  • “Translation Theory and the Intertwined Histories of Building for Self-Governance”

    Terms of Appropriation, Ana Miljacki, Amanda Lawrance (eds.)

  • “Housing and Human Rights”

    Nagele and METU: A Comparative Research on Modern Housing, edited by Ayşen Savaş, Agnes van der Meij

  • "Migration of Words”

    Traduttore, Traditore, Karen Greenwalt and Katja Rivera (eds.), Exhibition Catalog

  • “The Weight of the Ideal Architectural Photograph”

    Contemporary Turkish Architecture (Istanbul: Nurus, 2017): 10-11

  • “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

  • “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.)

  • “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.)

  • “Modern Design in Turkey”

    Encyclopedia of Asian Design

  • “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

  • “Kreuzberg 10963: Living and Dying in the Asihaus”

    Berlin Journal no. 30 (Fall 2016): 6-11. 

  • “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.)

  • “Exit Implies Entries Lament: Open Architecture in John Hejduk’s IBA-1984/87 Immigrant Housing”

    Notes on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded, Gevork Hartoonian (ed.)

  • Essay for “The Young in Architecture” Special Dossier

    Dossier edited by Esra Kahveci

  • “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

  • “Open Architecture as Adventure Game: John Hejduk ın a Noncitizen District”

    Perspecta 48, Yale Architectural Journal Amnesia issue, Summer 2015, pp. 128-144

  • “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

  • “Open Architecture in Berlin-Kreuzberg”

    ART PAPERS (January/February 2015): 34-41

  • “Can the Immigrant Speak? Autonomy and Participation in IBA 1984/87”

    The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art, Chris Dähne, Rixt HoekstraCarsten Ruhl (eds.)

  • “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.) 

  • “Book Review: Debating Orientalism”

    Turkish Review, vol. 4, no. 4 (2014): 468-469

  • “Exhibition Review: Environments and Counter Environments at the Graham Foundation”

    Journal of Architectural Education vol. 67, no. 2 (October 2013

  • “Modern and Contemporary Architecture in North Africa and West Asia"

    “Modern and Contemporary Architecture in North Africa and West Asia” 

  • “Book Review: The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City”

    Insight Turkey Vol. 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013)

  • “Global Conflict and Global Glitter: Architecture of West Asia”

     Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (1960-2010) Elie Haddad and David Rifkind (eds.)

  • “Postcolonial Theories in Architecture”

    A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (1960-2010) Elie Haddad and David Rifkind (eds.)

  • “Translations in Architecture” in round table organized by Zeynep Çelik

    International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no.3 (August 2013): 578-580

  • “Channels and Items of Translation”

    Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn, Aruna D’Souza, Jill Casid (eds.)

  • “Off the Frame: The Panoramic City Albums of Istanbul”

    Photography’s Orientalism, Ali Behdad, Luke Gartlan (ed.)

  • "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.

  • “Urban Renewal and its Discontents: Kreuzberg-IBA’ 84/87”

    In Istanbul Design Biennale Catalogue (Istanbul: IKSV, 2012)

  • “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.)

  • “Book Review: Orienting Istanbul and Streets of Memory”

    International Journal of Islamic Architecture

  • “Exhibition Review: Anne Tyng, Inhabiting Geometry”

    Vol. 71, no.1 (March 2012): 133-135

  • “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.)

  • “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.)

  • “Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum"

    New German Critique 110 (Summer 2010): 153-179

  • “Book Review. Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present”

    Journal of Architectural Education

  • “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)

  • “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.)

  • “Reading the Generic City: Retroactive Manifestoes for Global Cities of the Twenty-first Century”

    Perspecta Yale Architectural Journal

  • “Reciprocal Translations of Garden City Housing”

    CENTROPA, Vol. 7. No.2, May 2007, pp. 163-179

  • “Built at Night”

    PIN-UP Magazine, No.2

  • “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”

  • “Melancholies of Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk”

    World Literature Today, Vol. 80, No.6, November-December 2006, pp. 39-43

  • “Ambiguities of Transparency and Privacy in Seyfi Arkan’s Houses for the New State”

    METU Journal of Architecture, Ankara, Spring 2006, pp.25-49

  • “Melancholy and the ‘Other’”

    Eurozine Cultural Journals.

  • “The Siedlung and the Mahalle. Intertwined Histories of Neighborhood”

    Eurozine Cultural Journals

  • “The Global Housing Question”

    Architect’s Newspaper 18, 11.2.2005, p.17

  • “World, Open City?”

    Architectural Design (AD), Special Issue on Islam and Architecture, guest editor: Sabiha Foster

  • “Manfredo Tafuri’s Theory of Architectural Avant-Garde”

    Journal of Architecture, Vol.7, No.2 (2002), pp. 135-170

  • “Critical Practice in the Global Era. Question Concerning ‘Other’ Geographies”

    Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2002, pp. 37-58

  • “Golden Lion Goes to Africa, via Belgium”

    Architect’s Newspaper, No.16, 10.5.2004, pp. 9-10

  • Book Review: “One Woman’s Place: Book Review of Mary McLeod (ed), Charlotte Perriand”

    Architect’s Newspaper, No.13, 7.27.2004, p.11

  • “Book Review: Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building”

    International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 2004, pp. 139-140

  • “Americanization and Anxiety. Istanbul Hilton Hotel by SOM and Eldem”

    Proceedings for 2001 ACSA International Conference, Istanbul, June 15-19, 2001

  • “Orientalism and Melancholy. Bruno Taut in the East”

    Proceedings for 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000

  • “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.

  • “Letter to A-NY-Time”

    With Ş. Yalınay, AnyTime, ed. C. Davidson