Landform & Built Envir.Studio // "Intramural Synchronisms: Exploring the historical and natural landscapes/layers of Nicaea" (CRN 13881)

by Rabia Ezgi Beyen | Sep 16, 2025
Landform and Built Environment Studio - PEM209E (CRN 13881) “Intramural Synchronisms: Exploring the historical and natural landscapes/layers of Nicaea” will be conducted by Assoc. Prof. Nilay Özlü and Res. Assist. Başak Akarsu in the 2025-2026 Fall Semester.
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Landscape Design II [Whose landscape is this?] Poster

2025 - 2026 Fall
Landform & Built Envir. Studio
"Intramural Synchronisms: Exploring the historical and natural landscapes/layers of Nicaea"

Landform and Built Environment Studio - PEM209E (CRN 13881) “Intramural Synchronisms: Exploring the historical and natural landscapes/layers of Nicaea” will be conducted by Assoc. Prof. Nilay Özlü and Res. Assist. Başak Akarsu in the 2025-2026 Fall Semester.


This studio will explore, analyze, and survey the historical layers and interconnected landscapes of the ancient town of İznik. It will address the historical, ecological and cultural topographies of İznik, encouraging students to engage with the complex relationship between the natural, historical, and built environments. The studio investigates the potential of the site/terrain and its relation to the built environment to develop sustainable design solutions, considering multiple layers of terrestrial and subterranean entities and responding to various programs and functions. Students are expected to develop a critical sense of place and the ability to investigate, interpret and represent the components of the landscape and built environment, and their relationship to each other. 

ITU Department of Landscape Architecture

 

Vision

To train contemporary landscape architects who are open to national and international cooperation, whose contributions to the country and universal science are increasing day by day, who transfer natural and cultural values to future societies, who follow and apply contemporary design concepts and developing landscape technology, who have a respectable and unique place among other departments providing landscape architecture education, with an innovative program that continuously improves quality.

 

Mission

The aim of the programme is to train professionals and scientists who are self-renewing, who have adopted contemporary scientific and critical thinking, who can develop original ideas and have the ability to apply them, who produce for the sustainability of living spaces in different scales and contents by considering professional ethics and environmental sensitivity, and who are guiding and pioneering in the interdisciplinary lane.

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