Following the mission of the Izmir Institute of Technology, our department emphasizes the role of research in architecture at different levels and in different fields. The department seeks new paths of interdisciplinary research in architecture with a primary concern in responding to challenges in urbanization and in built environment in Turkey.

MEC-Art/Architecture                                                                                                          MEC-ART Researchers are concerned with the potentials of kinetic designs in art and architecture; what they are, what they can do for us, and how we can go about designing them. We aim at proving the applicability of kinematic methods into the design process of the adaptable space organizations through the kinetic building parts. In order to achieve our aim, a new type of design approach must be derived with an interdisciplinary study between architecture and mechanical engineering.

Research on lighting issues in Building Physics:                                                       Studies about lighting are based on fundamentals of daylighting design, analysis, visual comfort issues and daylighting performance of buildings under the basic issues of building physics. In view of these ongoing researches, a laboratory was constructed to serve researchers by providing several measurement equipments and computer programs. Such devices, lighting meters, a luminance meter and a chroma meter, are currently available. The education method involves lectures with working assignments and practical exercises together with analysing research methods. The aim is to set a strong link with theory and practical problems.     

Design cognition and Design computing

- Study of the Architectural Design Process from Programming to Conceptual Development to Post-Occupancy Evaluation

- The Relationship Between Representational Systems and Thinking Processes in Design

- Lighting in Architecture

- Hospital Architecture

- Planimetric Design Efficiency

- Nursing Unit Design

- Computer Aided Architectural Design

History, theory, and criticism in architecture

- Modern Turkish Architecture

- Contemporary Turkish Architecture

- Modernity and Post Modernity in Theory and Architecture

- Architectural Criticism

- The History of Turkish Woman Architects

- Architecture of Northern Cyprus

- Cultural Studies and Architecture

- Orientalism

- Postcolonial Studies

- Identity Discourse in Developing Countries

- Globalization

- 19th and 20th Century Architecture and Urbanism

- Architectural Characteristics

- Historiography

- Ottoman Architecture

- Conservation and Presentation of Archaeological Sites in General and Ancient Theatres in Particular

- Urban, Architectural and Art History and Theory (the Antiquity and the Modern Era)

- The Renaissance

- The History of the Classical Tradition

- Sustainability Discourse in Architecture

- Development and Human Settlements

- Cultural Anthropology and Material Culture

- The Condition of Displacement

Construction management                                                                                                         - Energy Efficiency in Buildings                                                                          - Construction Engineering and Management                                                       - Total Quality Management in Construction Industry                                           - Information Technologies for Project Management                                            - Intelligent Buildings and Energy Efficient Design