Nevnihal Erdoğan
Nevnihal Erdoğan (born 21 August 1959) is a Turkish architect and professor of architecture at the University of Kocaeli in İzmit. Biography Family and personal life Erdoğan was born on August 21, 1959, in Kars, Turkey. She grew up bilingual, Turkish and English in a Turkish family from a father named Jemal And a mother named Hanim. Academic career Erdoğan received a diploma in architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 1982, and M.S and Ph.D. from Istanbul Technical University in 1984 and 1992. She worked as lecture at Trakya University Department of Architecture during the years of 1992-2006 and is currently a professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Kocaeli. She has been as visiting scholarship at the University of California, Irvine, Department of Urban and Regional Planning School of Social Ecology and University of Wisconsin UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture. She gave undergraduate and graduate courses and supervised Master thesis and Doctoral thesis, and is currently teaching architecture design; theory of design at undergraduate and graduate level. Her research interests are in the interrelationship between culture and architecture, housing and settlement, architecture design. Works The majority of Erdoğan's publications have focused on historical Istanbul, Edirne and Izmit cities and