ITU is one of the six partner universities of EELISA European University. One of the communities built within the EELISA European University, Circular EELISA Community undertakes the execution of three of the 23 projects deemed worthy of funding by the EELISA Joint Community Fund for Inter-Institutional Activities in 2022. One of the projects is “circular@[action]” undertaken by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Zeynep Günay and Dr. Bihter Almaç, the second one is “CIRCULAR IN PLAY”, undertaken by Dr. İmge Akçakaya and Navarro García, J., and the third one is “Be Circular Seminars”, in which Assoc.Prof.Dr. Zeynep Günay, Dr. Bihter Almaç, and Dr. İmge Akçakaya take part. These projects share a common vision of the strategic role that higher education will play in addressing social responsibilities and sustainability challenges.

See the details for more information about the EELISA European University.

In 2022, the ITU Regional Planning M.Sc. Program has been qualified for the "AESOP Certificate of Quality" as a program accepted among European Planning Schools until 2028.

In 2018, ITU Department of Landscape Architecture was also granted full accreditation by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

ITU Department of Architecture, which is the first department in the world to receive international certification from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) outside the USA in 2008, received International Certification for the third time until 2027.

Within the scope of the HORIZON Europe - Disaster Resilient Society 2021 call, the PARATUS Project (Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co-developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters) was accepted. ITU plays a role as a partner in the project, in which Assoc.Prof.Dr. Seda Kundak (ITU Department of Urban and Regional Planning) is the coordinator, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Kerem Yavuz ARSLANLI (Department of Urban and Regional Planning), Assoc.Prof.Dr. Çağlar GÖKSU (Department of Civil Engineering) and Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ahmet Atıl Asıcı (Department of Management Engineering) are team members. The PARATUS project consortium consists of 20 partners. 

For all ongoing research projects, see the details below.

The latest issue of the A|Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture titled "Bee" was published. A|Z is an open-access and refereed e-journal that publishes three issues per year in English. A|Z is open to articles and book reviews about design, planning, research, education, technology, history, and art. The editor is Prof.Dr. Aliye Ahu Akgün from the ITU Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

The book "Opening the Landscape (Peyzajı Açmak)" was edited by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Meltem Erdem Kaya and published by YEM Publications. 

Opening the Landscape was developed as the collective name of the thought representations that came together to reveal the different areas of interest and different contents that landscape architecture deals with, represents, and speaks about. In the book, the authors Deniz Aslan, A. Burcu Serdar Köknar, Dilek Yürük, Enise Burcu Derinboğaz, Arzu Nuhoğlu, Seda Kurt Şengün, Aslıhan Şenel, Balin Koyunoğlu, Meltem Erdem Kaya, Ömür Sözer Şenol, Zeynep Şahin Ercan, Didem Kara Sarıoğlu, Melih Bozkurt, and Meliz Akyol Alay present the words, colors, politics, representation, publicity, ecology, traces, infrastructure, production, locality and art of landscape to the readers from the perspective of writers with different backgrounds.

The two-day seminar, organized in cooperation with ITU Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture - Circularity Research Group in the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, and the Netherlands Innovation Network Türkiye, was held at the Dutch Consulate in Istanbul on October 20 and at ITU Taşkışla Campus on October 21.

The “architalkture” Lecture Series and “arabul” Research Meeting Series hosted by ITU Faculty of Architecture continued in 2022. Prof. Alan Penn from University College London and Prof. Karen Lucas from University of Manchester were guest speakers of “architalkture”; and Prof.Dr. Leman Figen Gül was a guest speaker of “arabul”. 

For the videos of the events, please see the details.

ITU Faculty of Architecture members, students, and alumni won 12 international and 67 national awards in 2022 in the fields of architecture, planning, and design.

In 2022, ITU started “the Academic Performance Awards” and 29 faculty members were awarded for their achievements in 2021 and also for the 2016-2020 period. 

For the full list of awards, see the details below. 

The Dean of the ITU Faculty of Architecture, Prof.Dr. Murat Gül (Department of Architecture) has been reelected to the Directorate of National Palaces Scientific Board.

The first project employing the KUKA Robotic Arm titled “Transferring Architectural Construction Knowledge to Parametric Robotic Production Codes” started. The project is carried out by the team consisting of Prof.Dr. Mine Özkar and research assistants Sevgi Altun and Begüm Hamzaoğlu and is financially supported by the ITU Research Projects Coordination Unit, the companies AVENCO Robotics and Automation, Fibrobeton Building Components, and our graduate Dr. Kumsal Asena Şen Bayram (Assistant Professor at Maltepe University).

Additionally, a new KUKA Robotic Arm is employed within the scope of the BIDEB 2232 Project titled “City Development with Design Intelligence” and coordinated by Asst.Prof.Dr. İmdat As from the Department of Architecture.