Didem Ekici

Contact

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  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
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• didem.ekici@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Didem Ekici specializes in architecture culture since the Enlightenment. Her research interests revolve around the themes of body, health, and textiles in architecture.

Ekici received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a MArch and BArch from Middle East Technical University. She has held research fellowships from The Wellcome Trust, The German Academic Exchange Service, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, and The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. She is the co-editor of Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body (Routledge, 2017), Housing and the City (Routledge, forthcoming in 2022), and Textile in Architecture (Routledge, under contract) as well as the author of numerous articles on modern architecture, health, materiality, hygiene, asceticism, orientalism, and urban memory. Ekici is a part of the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics (ACT) Research Group.

Expertise Summary

• Ph. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• M. Arch., Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• B.Arch., Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Teaching Summary

Didem Ekici has taught undergraduate and graduate level design studio and courses on the history and theory of architecture. The recent modules she has taught include Contemporary Theories in… read more

Research Summary

Currently, Didem is working on a project titled Body, Cloth and Clothing in Architecture, 1800-1930. It examines the assumption that a seamless transition existed from the body to clothes to domestic… read more

Selected Publications

• EKICI, D., 2013. Architectural Asceticism and Austerity: Architecture post mortem: the diastolic architecture of decline, dystopia and death 205 - 218
• EKICI, DIDEM, BLESSING, PATRICIA and BAUDEZ, BASIL, eds., 2022. Textile in Architecture from the Middle Ages until the Mid-Twentieth Century Routledge. (In Press.)
• DIDEM EKICI, 2021. "Airborne Infection and Breathing Walls" gta papers: Social Distance. 5, 132-137
• 2022. The Concept of Type in Hellerau Garden City, 1908-1914. In: BORSI, KATHARINA, EKICI, DIDEM, HALE, JONATHAN and HAYNES, NICK, eds., Housing and the City Routledge. (In Press.)

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Didem Ekici has taught undergraduate and graduate level design studio and courses on the history and theory of architecture. The recent modules she has taught include Contemporary Theories in Architecture, Architecture in the Age of Planetary Crisis, and architecture history survey.

Her weekly drop-in hour is on Wednesdays 12.00-13.00

Current Research

Currently, Didem is working on a project titled Body, Cloth and Clothing in Architecture, 1800-1930. It examines the assumption that a seamless transition existed from the body to clothes to domestic interior to buildings in German speaking world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She traces this continuity in the discourses on style, ornament, fashion, and health.

She is co-editing two collections: Housing and the City (Routledge, forthcoming in 2022) with Katharina Borsi, Jonathan Hale and Nick Haynes and Textile in Architecture From the Middle Ages to Modernism (Routledge under contract) with Patricia Blessing and Basile Baudez.

Past Research

Didem Ekici's research focuses on a set of interrelated themes: body and architecture, the domestic interior, and architecture under capitalism and mass culture. She is the co-editor of Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body (Routledge, 2017) as well as the author of numerous articles on modern architecture, the healthy body culture, hygiene, asceticism, orientalism, and urban memory. Her scholarly work has appeared in such journals as Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, and International Studies in Philosophy.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Wellcome Trust in Medical History and Humanities Grant, 2014

DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Study Visit Grant for Senior Academics (Host institute: Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin), 2013

U. of Michigan Rackham Graduate School One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, 2008

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship, 2007

U. of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Research Grant for dissertation research, 2007

U. of Michigan Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute International Travel Grant, 2006

DAAD Graduate Research Scholarship for dissertation research in Germany, 2006

U. of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow, 2005-2006

U. of Michigan Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar Fellowship (declined), 2005

U. of Michigan Center for European Studies Fellowship for dissertation research, 2005

U. of Michigan International Institute Graduate Seminar on Global Transformations, 2005-2006

U. of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Discretionary Funds for dissertation research 2004

U. of Michigan International Institute Predissertation Research Grant for research, 2003

U. of Michigan Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2005

Future Research

She welcomes inquires from potential PhD candidates from Home, EU and international countries who are interested in the following research areas: architecture and body, healing spaces, domestic interior, housing since the Enlightenment.

• EKICI, DIDEM, BLESSING, PATRICIA and BAUDEZ, BASIL, eds., 2022. Textile in Architecture from the Middle Ages until the Mid-Twentieth Century Routledge. (In Press.)
• 2022. The Concept of Type in Hellerau Garden City, 1908-1914. In: BORSI, KATHARINA, EKICI, DIDEM, HALE, JONATHAN and HAYNES, NICK, eds., Housing and the City Routledge. (In Press.)
• DIDEM EKICI, 2021. "Airborne Infection and Breathing Walls" gta papers: Social Distance. 5, 132-137
• DIDEM EKICI, 2018. In praise of poverty: the middle-class dwelling and asceticism in early twentieth-century Germany Journal of Architecture.
• SARAH SCHRANK and DIDEM EKICI, eds., 2016. Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body Routledge.
• DIDEM EKICI, 2016. The Physiology of the House: Modern Architecture and the Science of Hygiene. In: SARAH SCHRANK and DIDEM EKICI, eds., Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body Routledge.
• DIDEM EKICI, 2016. Skin, Clothing, and Dwelling: Max von Pettenkofer, the Science of Hygiene, and Breathing Walls Journal of Society of Architectural Historians. 75(3), 281–298
• DIDEM EKICI, 2016. Review of Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? ed. by D. Gokturk, L. Soysal, I. Tureli Journal of Urban Design. 21(2), 282-84
• SARAH SCHRANK and DIDEM EKICI, 2016. Introduction. In: SARAH SCHRANK and DIDEM EKICI, eds., Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body Routledge.
• DIDEM EKICI, 2013. Architectural Asceticism and Austerity. In: KUNZE, D., BERTOLINI, C.D. and BROTT, S., eds., Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death Ashgate. 205-218
• EKICI, D., 2013. In praise of poverty: the middle-class dwelling and asceticism in early twentieth-century Germany Journal of Architecture. 18(3), 364-380
• EKICI, D., 2011. Modern architecture and asceticism In: 99th ACSA Annual Meeting, March 3-6 2011, Montreal, Canada. 166-171
• EKICI, D., 2008. From Rikli's light-and-air hut to Tessenow's Patenthaus: Körperkultur and the modern dwelling in Germany, 1890-1914 Journal of Architecture. 13(4), 379-406
• EKICI, DIDEM, 2008. The Laboratory of a New Humanity: The Concept of Type, Life Reform, and Modern Architecture in Hellerau Garden City, 1900-1914 The University of Michigan.
• 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