Lectures
George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857, Memorial Lecture
Esra Akcan
Open Architecture as Radical Democracy
Esra Akcan is an Associate Professor at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Institute for European Studies. She is the author of Landfill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City (124/3, 2004); Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S. Bozdoğan, Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, 2012); and Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87 (Birkhäuser-De Gruyter, 2018).