Fatma Tanis

Job title
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft

Fatma Tanış (Dalyan, 1990) trained as an Architect in Istanbul and Stuttgart. She holds Master's degrees in Architecture History (ITU), and Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (MSGSU). After living in Bodrum, Izmir, Porto, and Hamburg, where she deepened her interest in port cities, she has started her doctoral research on port city culture in Izmir in the Department of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology.

Her deep interest in research in architecture dates back to the bachelor's degree. She has conducted an external research project in parallel to her training in architecture at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Her research on "Modernism and Oscar Niemeyer" was awarded competitively in 2012 by Istanbul, New York, and London based firm Emre Arolat Architecture.

Following her graduation project focused on Izmir, she followed two master's programs simultaneously. Tanış completed the studies with her theses on port city research that are complementary to one another: "The Waterfront Regeneration Projects And Contemporary Design Approaches of European Port Cities" and "Waterfront Regeneration Projects: Development Strategies and Conservation approaches". Building on her interdisciplinary background, currently, she explores her home city Izmir from the cross-cultural perspective.

Amongst her academic works, she was involved in lectures. She was a teaching assistant in "Building Green" with Prof. Dr. -Ing. Carola Hein (TU Delft), and in "The Global Turn: Modern Architectures and Movements since 1851" with Prof. Dr. Ir. Tom Avermaete (ETH) & Prof. Dr. Michelangelo Sabatino (IIT), in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft. She lectured to master students in the Diploma Studio of Methods & Analysis with Prof. Dr. Ir. Klaske Havik (TU Delft) about "The Port City Izmir as a Cross-Cultural Construct".

In 2018, she was awarded a tuition grant by the Department of Architecture at TU Delft. She was selected by a committee consisting of several research group leaders, based on academic potential, motivation, scientific output (both achieved and underway), and her active contribution to the department's research community.

Since 2019, she is a guest editor of Spool, the journal for Architecture and the Built Environment, indexed in Google Scholar, the DOAJ, and Scopus.

Tanış is an active participant in national and international conferences, workshops, and academic debates. Her research appeared in leading venues such as IPHS, EAHN, AESOP Conferences. She is fluent in English (C1), German (C1), and Turkish (native).

 

 

Fatma Tanis
Email address
F.Tanis-1@tudelft.nl