Adjunct Professor
Greene Building
atakt@rpi.edu
518-276-4066

Bachelor of Arts, METU (Turkey); Doctor of Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles

Tülay Atak is an architect, an architectural historian and theorist. Her current work focuses on the intersection between environmental history and architecture. She received her Bachelor’s degree at METU in Ankara, Turkey and pursued her PhD at UCLA with the dissertation, “Byzantine Modern: Displacements of Modernism in Istanbul.” Tulay’s scholarship has appeared in journals and edited volumes such as OASE, Future Anterior, PMLA, JAE, JSAH, Invention d’une Architecte, Construction Savante, and Fragile City.She has taught at SCI-Arc, Cornell, RISD, Cooper Union, RPI, and Pratt Institute and is guest professor in architectural theory at the Angewandte in Vienna.