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First Name
Cansu
Last Name
Degirmencioglu
Country
Germany
State
Affiliation
Technical University of Munich
Website URL
https://www.cansudegirmencioglu.com/
Keywords
hygiene, popular preventive health, hospitals, visual cultures of illness, sanatoria, domesticity, TB culture, medicalized childhood spaces, everyday life, early republican architecture in Turkey.
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About Me

Historian of in-betweens: architecture, health, and modernity. Writing on hygiene, sanatoria, domesticity, TB culture, childhood, and everyday life in the 1920s–50s. PhD, based in Berlin.

Recent Publications
Degirmencioglu, Cansu. 2022. “On Latticed Windows, Disease, and the Materiality of a Bygone Epoch.” Journal of Architectural Education 76 (1): 127–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2022.2017714.
Degirmencioglu, Cansu. 2021. “Healthy Homes: Hygiene, Disease Prevention, and Domesticity During the 1930s in Turkey.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 8 (2): 337–44.
Berberoğlu, Alev, and Cansu Değirmencioğlu. 2023. “Deconstructing the Story of a Contagion: Tuberculosis and Its Representations in Early Republican Turkey.” In Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750: Capturing Contagion, edited by Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst. Routledge.
Değirmencioğlu, Cansu. 2024. “Hygienic Design of Schools as a Medium for Negotiating Modernity and Preventive Medicine in the 1930s Turkey.” In Proceedings: The Republic, Architecture and the City: The Legacy of 100 Years, edited by Neslihan Dostoğlu, Berkay Oskay, and Idil Akkuzu. Istanbul Kültür University.
Degirmencioglu, Cansu, and Deniz Avci Hosanli. 2023. “Transient yet Settled: The Rooms for Tuberculosis Patients in Turkish Sanatoria.” Res Mobilis 12 (16): 16. https://doi.org/10.17811/rm.13.16.2023.58-83.
Avci-Hosanli, Deniz, and Cansu Degirmencioglu. 2023. “From ‘Prototype’ to ‘Model’: Architectural and Spatial Development of Block A (1924–1945) of Istanbul’s Heybeliada Sanatorium.” Frontiers of Architectural Research 13 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2023.09.006.
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Turkey - Germany
Expertise by Geography
Germany, Mediterranean, Middle East
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Children & Youth, Gender, Material Culture, Medicine, Science, Urban History, Women