Starting with the declaration of Tanzimat Firman in 1839, a systematic transformation in different fields, such as administration, law, taxation, property rights, education, urban planning and public works was initiated, which triggered the regulation of urban space as a tool for achieving a modern state. This paper focuses on the formation of urban regulations in the 19th century and questions their reflection in the urban space based on the case of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman State. The period between 1820-1900 is chosen, during which nine regulations were enacted concerning the buildings and the streets. During this period, the building regulations were tried to be systematized and following the establishment of the necessary urban administrative bodies, they were able to be applied in some districts in Istanbul. Although the building regulations were enacted with the purpose to transform the whole city, they could only be implemented in certain areas, the most prestigious neighborhoods such as Galata and Pera, due to financial and administrative restrictions.

Artvin, which had been a view of a rural town in the first years of the Turkish Republic, had still preserved its traditional character in this era. Over time a major transformation lasted in town’s traditional character that can be seen in many other Anatolian towns. In addition to the change that took place in the city’s residential areas, so many public buildings are added to the urban lanscape in time because of being the central of the province. Artvin Government House is the most important one beetween these buildings which has built in 1974 by winning architectural project of Aslaner, Güngören and Gürel after the competition of Ministry of Public Works in 1968 according to the need of a new Goverment House. Old government house which was an important witness of the city's history and was expected to be protected from competitors were transferred to the new building with the creation of an abstract modulation in the proportions of the new design. Despite all the efforts the historical building was demolished in the 1980s. This study aimed to discuss the conservation of modern architectural heritage subject, which has started to be more discussed in conservation science environments in recent years, in the case of Artvin Government House which carries traces of the old government house. The protection of Artvin Government House, which was obtained after a national architectural competition, has a crucial importance because of not only reflects the architectural style of the period but also witnesses the town’s last fourty years history. The preservation of the 20th century modern architectural heritage of Artvin and transmitting to this heritage to next generations are at least important that the protection of the traditional and monumental buildings dating to 19th century or earlier periods that number of which are decreasing nowadays.

Every building is defined by an ‘architectural envelope’ which is an interface between interior and exterior. The changing understanding of ‘context’ in contemporary architectural environment has changed the definitional and semantic signification of envelope. With continuous change / transformation of architectural agenda, these approaches were opened to multi-dimensional discussion in terms of symbol, value, language, expression. The analysis of how to read conceptually the architectural envelope and its constituent elements as a new means of definitional expression will reveal the place of the new meaning, definition and scope of architectural envelope in contemporary understanding of architecture.
The purpose of this work is to prove that the architectural envelope is a very important part of the building which, as a basic construction element, defines the building, determines its identity, represents the dynamic change and tension between interior and exterior, and has also semantic, technological and esthetical concerns. It also aims to point out that the interrelated situations such as ‘re-defining and re-explaining the context’, ‘context becomes the concept’ and ‘concept/concepts become context’ may occur in this scope of the new architecture.
In this study, changing meanings of Architectural Envelope - Context, in the current architectural environment relations, are examined by the discourse analysis. In the environment of architecture, with this analysis that has been made on the discourses of architects in media and literature, a new perspective has been presented on the envelope - context relation, by explaining conceptual openings and diversity of codes, and an infrastructure, to promote new information in the new design, has been conceptualized.

Classrooms are spaces where people spend the special part of their lives. Due to the fact that the visual perception is more effective than other perceptions for learning, visual comfort in classrooms has a prime importance in terms of performing learning activity without any difficulty, fatigue and loss of efficiency. In spaces, interior surface features affect the visual comfort as well as lighting quantity and quality. In this study, some main information about factors of visual comfort in classrooms was given, the luminance values of inner surfaces of a classroom were exemplified via lighting design programme. Additionally, surveys were implemented regarding surface features of work tables to students in a classroom of YTU Department of Architecture.

Bitlis province is located in south east Anatolia and settled on a high terrain, with in this topography, images of the traditional urban houses and monumental building semblances a rich profile from different vistas.

XX. In the first quarter of the century, when it was a settlement where the Armenians and Muslims live together,because of internal and external migrations after the second half of the century the social structure of the residents of the city that has changed is observed.

The 1960s in the aftermath of migration to the big cities for economic reasons, which is, after 1980 because of the terror that occurs in the area continued. Bitlis traditional urban fabric, due to this migration, the user was forced to live the changes.

The number of traditional housing to be a lot of the city's original urban fabric while maintaining the physical context of the present day, to reach a comprehensive study of the user of the change have been made about the traditional houses in Bitlis province suregelmes and tissue for Evaluation and analysis of traditional housing in the scientific sense was born out of necessity.

As a result of the analysis from the traditional urban tissue of the social and physical problems have been mentioned. As a result, the change in the social structure by determining what are the effects on the domestic architecture of traditional traditional traditional homes and the protection of the urban fabric in the direction of solution of their problems and made suggestions.

This paper explains a course called “Building Information Modelling” that is compulsory in an undergraduate program of architecture in a university in Istanbul. The aim of the course is to describe how basic BIM knowledge can be used during the whole design process. From 2007 till 2015, approximately 500 students have taken this course. This paper discusses “Building Information Modelling” course by giving the content and the products of the course. In order to evaluate the course a survey is made and the results of the survey is also given. This paper also talks over the importance of BIM on architectural education.

Urban transformation has been a considerable topical in recent epoch concerning planning policies set out at a centralized level in Turkey, and has also become a much-debated subject by the authorities and academics in legal structures and implementations concomitant. By the reason of structuring parts of the cities with the aforementioned developments, it is important to monitor the implementations from city block scale decreasing to apartment scale in some of the cities and the policies governing these.
Another important aspect of urban transformation is that, being effective on different dimensions of life as social relationships, economical status, belonging, attachment etc. both in and at the end of the process, also assuming a role in the change of the life style. The quality of life, that is an outcome concerning the individuals’ evaluation of their lives by different dimensions becomes different by the effect of time and conditions changing. From this aspect, it’s thought that discussing the urban transformations and the policies governing the implementations from the perspective of qualiy of life will provide benefit.
Accordingly, urban transformation is discussed through Doğanbey implementation that became known countrywide from the perspective of quality of life which creates inputs for policies, allowing the determination of individual or public well-being level in this study. With the survey of quality of life conducted in the area, a much-debated case due to its physical, spcial, legal, admisnistrative and economical dimensions, the urban transformation process is semtinized in relation to the perception and experiences of individuals generated by the dynamic relationship between people and environment; and lack of user participation is emphasized related to cruciality of the right to prefer in life quality. Through Doğanbey in which lack of participation caused physical, social and economical problems, this study adresses actors, decision mechanisms and participation; and based on the case study results, deductions are produced for improvement of quality of life through implementations that have similar qualities in terms of transformation dynamics.

Turkey’s organized industrial zones serve to balance regional development equally by directing private sector investments to specific regions or by providing monetary or physical incentives to augment existing investment incentives. They also cover the land requirements of developing industries, organize related industries so that they can manufacture together within the framework of a specific program, and consequently generate an external economy. Another aim of organized industrial zones is to aid national development by incentivizing underdeveloped regions and drawing industrial investments to these regions toward regional equality.

Organized industrial zones are the outcomes of an organized, orderly and planned approach. They provide locational configuration and also serve as vehicles for development. These zones are efficient in directing industry to less developed regions, and, in regions with development potential, serve to activate this potential. Accordingly, they are efficient means of achieving orderly, planned urban development.

Turkey’s first organized industrial zone began operating in 1962 and to date, nearly 280 organized industrial zones have been established. Direction of industry to underdeveloped regions is a goal on one hand, while on the other, the decision has been made to establish several organized industry zones in developed regions as well. From the perspective of Turkey, it can be said that the difference between underdeveloped regions and developed regions has increased in favor of the developed regions.

In order for the economic benefits they provide to also make a positive impact on city planning, decisions regarding the organized industrial zones must be made on the national and regional levels. Principles such as providing regional equality, preventing unequal development in the country and the internal provision of technical and social infrastructure brought about poor investments through the use of slogans such as “An Organized Industrial Zone for Each Province.” Consequently, today there are many stagnant organized industrial zones. They are unable to provide the expected industrial development and have a low occupancy rate.

In sum, organized industrial zones play an important role in organizing the relationship between urbanization and industrialization. They enable the inspection of the negative effects of industrial organizations on the environment and allow organizations to manufacture easily and cheaply in areas where they are all located together and benefit properly from infrastructural services. Thus, they give developing industries the chance to encounter ample opportunity. Yet the right decisions on site selection must be made so that the organized industry zones can provide these expected opportunities.

This declaration aims to determine the current situation of organized industrial zones (e.g., the number of organized industrial zones per province, their occupancy rates and business segments) and evaluate their outcomes. Firstly, the appropriateness of the role that organized industrial zones, planned as vehicles for development, can play during the shift from realty-based growth to a production economy will be discussed. Then the discussion will be opened up to how this should occur (production type, site selection criteria, legal and institutional structuring, etc.).

Urban gardens are formed by a historical accumulation of and inter-relationships among the natural, social and economic dynamics. Standing at the interface of urban and rural, they are significant urban areas providing important societal and psychological benefits for societies beyond their explicit environmental and ecological values. They also have the potential of refurbishing collectivity within communities through urban farming and agricultural production. However, these rare characteristics also make them one of the most vulnerable sections of cities today that they have been threatened with the recent and irrepressible growth of urban areas.
Urban gardens in the city of İstanbul face the challenges of cultural conservation, economic development and social inclusion in recent decades as well. Hence, they are a pertinent example to the hardships in sustaining urban gardens in the phase of the urban growth. This study focuses particularly on Yedikule Urban Gardens in Istanbul by underlining both the “destruction” and “development” sides of the story in physical, natural, economic and social contexts of change. The paper proposes a “new” planning and conservation process for the urban gardens of Istanbul. This will provide a framework for the integration of urban farming, rural production, conservation of cultural and productive landscapes and farming activities into the changing urban environments in general. This concern is also present an introductory discussion for the significance of urban green commons in Turkey.

The industrial sector has been a determining factor in shaping big cities as a basic economic activity in Turkey, principally in Istanbul, since the 1950’s. In addition, the build-ups in metropolitan cities and the fact that some economic actions subsequently exceeded their economic turning points due to excessive build-ups have created the need to gravitate toward new areas, and caused them to act in line with the positional advantages offered by these areas. To this end, many industries that originated in the Metropolis of Istanbul have expanded in the east, west, and south directions, expanding to many areas within the Marmara Region bringing about significant changes in these areas. Tekirdağ and subsidiary settlements which are the western neighbors of the metropolis have been fairly effected by these changes. The changes which continued at an accelerating pace between the years of 1980 and 2010 have reconstructed the administrative structure while expediting spatial changes in new administrative buildings. In this 30 year period 17 new township municipalities were established and an area of approximately 60,000 ha was opened for development. Accordingly, this article examines the local administrations which were created since 1980 in the settlements within the province of Tekirdağ which experienced a process of rapid economic change and growth under the area of influence of the metropolis of Istanbul, as well as the ways these local administrations have affected local plans, and mathematically tests how the plans that have been made were influenced in settlements within the areas of industrial influence.

The innovative character of the industrialized countries contributes to their economic performance. The dynamics of innovation are not dependent only on scientific and technological developments but also include design, which acts as a bridge between technology, services, user-centred, and social innovation. Design is not only implemented by in-house activities in countries with powerful design sectors; design- and innovation-related external actors are also actively used. Influenced by the new inovation models, innovation-related external actors contribute to a country’s competitiveness by engaging in local and global collaborative networks they form among themselves, and with manufacturing industries.

Awareness about the role and contribution of innovation and design in attaining competitiveness has been raised in Turkey, and relevant political, legal, and administrative regulations have been implemented in the 2000s. The theoretical framework on which policies and supports are based relies on linear innovation models, and new generation innovation models are not actively used. Yet, the ratio of manufacturing industry firms that have the capacity to make limited products and technological developments in Turkey is high. In addition to that, the use of collaborative (local and global) networks between manufacturing firms of different sizes and innovative outsourcing suppliers is low. This study aims to build a conceptual framework for the active use of design in product innovation by analyzing the relevant public policies. To this end, the focus will be on current policy and strategy documents, and the design-support programs provided by the public.

In a country, the earnings of the young population during education, shape the cornerstone of the country’s future. When the program contents of the education policies, which are important for the determination of countries’ future visions, are examined, it is seen that the age group of 0-6 has a different importance among education process as it is the period when the human brain develops the quickest.
The objective of this study is to emphasize that as much as the success of the programs developped by pedagogues for the education process of 0-6 age group, namely the pre-school education, depends on the education system, it also depends on designing and presenting places that would enable this system to be applied accurately and effectively. The method applied in this study is to determine the approaches of education systems, which are applied worldwide through literature, on the interior designs and to ascertain the place designing standards of Reggio Emilia education system which shares similarity with the features and innovations that was brought into education with the last innovation by Republic of Turkey The Ministry of National Education that was aimed at pre-school education. These determinations are explained through preliminary design examples. As a result; it is expected to assert that the places should be designed both with the vision of an educator and interior, so constructions have been designed by the disciplines under educational sciences. These constructions reach its objectives accurately and timely in the new educational institutions to be built.