Didem Ekici

Contact

• workRoom B46 Lenton Firs Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 14888
• didem.ekici@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

Currently, she is working on a project that examines the modern dwelling culture during the early twentieth century.

Selected Publications

• DIDEM EKICI, 2011. Modern Architecture and Asceticism. In: ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ, ANNE CORMIER and ANNIE PEDRET, eds., Where do you Stand: 99th ACSA Annual Meeting ACSA Press. 166-171

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Past Research

Didem Ekici's research explores the relationship between body and architecture, housing reform, and mass culture with an emphasis on twentieth-century German architecture culture. Her published work has analyzed the transformation of the modern dwelling under the influence of the healthy body cult at the turn of the twentieth century. A parallel research direction has been the commodification of public space and the representation of collective memory in urban renewal projects that were realized after the reunification of Germany. Her scholarly work has appeared in such publicatons as Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, and International Studies in Philosophy.

• DIDEM EKICI, 2011. Modern Architecture and Asceticism. In: ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ, ANNE CORMIER and ANNIE PEDRET, eds., Where do you Stand: 99th ACSA Annual Meeting ACSA Press. 166-171
• EKICI, D., 2008. From the Light-and-air Hut to the Patenthaus: Body Culture and Modern Architecture in Germany Journal of Architecture. 13(4), 379-406
• EKICI, D., 2007. The Surfaces of Memory in Berlin: Rebuilding the Schloß Journal of Architectural Education. 61(2), 25-34
• EKICI, D., 2005. Orientalism, Expressionism, Imperialism: Bruno Taut’s Competition Design for the ‘House of Friendship’ in Istanbul. In: ROBERTS, L. M., ed., Germany and the Imagined East Cambridge Scholars Press,. 96-11
• EKICI, D., 2004. Looking at Potsdamer Platz through Modern and Postmodern Narratives International Studies in Philosophy. 36(2), 1-14