Eastern Mediterranean University Architecture Faculty Housing, Education, Research and Advisory Center (EMU HERA) and EMU Urban Research and Development Center’s (EMU URDC) joint podcast series "Storyboarding the Home and the City " have restarted in the 2020-2021 Academic Year with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakkı Yırtıcı’s presentation titled “From the Immemorial Space to the House, Its States of Being”. The podcast shared at the social media recently can be followed at “From the Immemorial Space to the House, Its States of Being” by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakkı Yırtıcı – YouTube".
Who is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakkı Yırtıcı?
Graduated from İstanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakkı Yırtıcı completed his master's and doctoral studies at the same university. His book “Spatial Organisation of Contemporary Capitalism” was published by Bilgi University Publications in 2005. Focusing on power, space, language and psychoanalysis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yırtıcı gives lectures on the reproduction of power and space, modernization and daily life practices, cinema and architecture, and the history of urban modernization. He regularly writes on the urban and architectural problems in the "Gazete DuvaR" internet newspaper.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yırtıcı briefly summarizes his presentation titled “From the Immemorial Space to the House, Its States of Being” prepared for the EMU Faculty of Architecture: “The house has its own states. The states depend on the variety, time and circumstances. It is the object of change throughout history, but it is also our only constant. We attribute a special meaning to the house as an interior against the outside. But it is also the object of political economy, the favorite of the real estate market. Every change in the forces that establish daily life is reflected in the house, reconstructing its meaning and our lives, over and over again. You can listen to the infinite states of the house and every aspect of it telling us about our lives in the series of 'Storyboarding the Home and the City'.