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Esra Akcan
Esra Akcan is a professor in the Department of Architecture and resident director in the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. She has received awards and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, Graham Foundation, Canadian Centre for Architecture, American Academy in Berlin, Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Clark Institute, Getty Research Institute, Mellon Foundation, among others. She is the author of Landfill Istanbul (124/3, 2004); Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with Sibel Bozdoğan, Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, 2012); Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87 (Birkhäuser-De Gruyter, 2018), and Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture (CCA Singles, 2022).
