Fall 2015 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, History of Architecture and Urban Development program
Aslihan Gunhan is a first year Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program. Prior to Cornell, Gunhan was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and worked at MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design. She received her B.Arch. with minor in city planning and M.Arch. from Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture in Turkey. Her studies focus on the narratives of modernity through museums. She aims to work on the term “museum landscape” as a means to understand and critically dismantle the narratives of identity, constructed during the formation of nation states along the coasts of the Aegean Sea. Her research projects aim to be situated at a critical juncture between architecture, political geography, and the postcolonial discourse. The Mellon Collaborative Seminar will provide a rich medium for her research project, and an interdisciplinary arena where architectural research will meet with museum studies and humanities discourse.