Olgu Çalışkan

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Olgu Çalışkan

olgu@metu.edu.tr

Having completed his doctoral degree on urbanism at TU Delft, the Netherlands in 2013, he has been lecturing at METU Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning and coordinating the Master of Urban Design Studio as assistant professor. His publications involve the book, Urban Compactness (VDM, 2009), guest editorial for the journal of Built Environment (2011), and several articles, including those in the Journal of Urban Design (2010/15), and Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (2011) and Urban Design International (2012) and Urban Morphology (2017) Within the design team of ÖZER\ÜRGER Architects, Olgu Çalışkan received the first price at Antalya Konyaaltı Waterfront Design Competition in 2015.

Areas of Interest: Physical planning and design, urban morphology, urban design theory and methodology, and visualisation in urbanism.

PublicationsCoursesContact

BOOK

  1. Urban Compactness: A Study of Ankara Urban Form, 2009, Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KGV

EDITED JOURNAL  

  1. Urban Morphology and Design, Built Environment 37(4), December 2011, (with S. Marshall)

EDITED BOOK

  1. Çatışma, Planlama ve Tasarım | Conflict, Planning and Design, 2018, METU Faculty of Architecture
  2. Designing Urban Design: Towards a Holistic Perspective [METUDSYMP2016 Proceedings], November 2017, METU Faculty of Architecture (with E. Efeoğlu)
  3. CATALOUGUE.01: METU Master of Urban Design 1996-2016, October 2016, METU Faculty of Architecture

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Nanos Gigantum Humeris Insidentes: The New Challenges For Future, CATALOUGUE.01: METU Master of Urban Design 1996-2016 (ed. O. Caliskan), October 2016, METU Faculty of Architecture (with D. Cihanger), pp. 29-41
  2. Pattern Formation in Planned Urban Peripheries: A  Typomorphological Approach for Design, at URBANISM PhD Research 2008-2010 (ed. F. D. van der Hoeven), IOS Press BV: the Netherlands, 2009, pp. 40-63

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  1. Rethinking on the Peripheral Urban Formations in a Semi-Peripheral Country: the City of Ankara, the Capital of Turkey, the 4th International Seminar on Urbanism and Urbanization The European Tradition in Urbanism and its Future, 24-26 September 2007, TU Delft: the Netherlands, pp. 223-231

JOURNAL PAPERS

  1. Parametric Design in Urbanism: A Critical Reflection, Planning Practice and Research, 32(4), 2017, pp. 417-443
  2. Urban Coherence: A Morphological Definition, Urban Morphology, 21(2), 2017, pp. 123–41
  3. How Urban Designers Perform: An International Perspective On Actual Practice, METU JFA (32:1), 2015/1, pp.  229-259
  4. Design Thinking in Urbanism: Learning from the Designers, Urban Design International 17, Winter 2012, pp. 272-296
  5. Motionscape: The Image of Space in Motion (An Attempt at Conceptualization in the Case of Ankara), Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 28(4), Winter 2011, pp. 314-35
  6. Urban Morphology and Design: Introduction, Built Environment 37(4), December 2011, (with S. Marshall), pp. 381-92
  7. A Joint Framework for Urban Morphology and Design, Built Environment 37(4), December 2011, (with S. Marshall), pp. 409-26
  8. Urban Gateway: Just a symbol, or more? (Re-appraising an Old Idea in the Case of Ankara), Journal of Urban Design15, Number 1, February 2010, pp. 91-122
  9. Changing Perspectives on the Planning of Ankara (1924-2007) and Lessons for a New Master-Planning Approach to Developing Cities, FOOTPRINT Delft School of Design Journal 5, Autumn 2009, pp. 23-53
  10. “Virtual Space as a Public Sphere: Rethinking the Political and Professional Agenda of Spatial Planning and Design”, (2006) METU Journal of Faculty of Architecture 23(2.),  pp. 1-20, with Adnan Barlas

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Grand Urban Rules (by A. Lehnerer, 2009) Journal of Urban Design, 2012, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 160-61
  2. Urban Paleontology: Evolution of Urban Forms (by M. Tang, D. Yang, 2008), Urban Morphology, 2010, Vol. 14 No.1, pp. 75-76

COURSES

  1. UD501 Urban Design Studio
  2. UD502 Urban Design Studio
  3. UD555 Parametric Urban Design-I
  4. UD556 Parametric Urban Design-II
  5. CRP214 Creative Thinking for Planners

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, Dumlupınar Bulvarı No. 1, Çankaya, Ankara / Turkey

URL: 

https://metu.academia.edu/OlguCaliskan

http://mud.arch.metu.edu.tr/

http://pud.arch.metu.edu.tr

http://www.metudsymp2016.org/