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Cultural heritage preservation specialist, interior architect and environmental designer (MSc, METU; BSc, Baskent University) and architectural historian (PhD, METU) Assistant Professor Dr. Deniz Avci (Izmir University of Economics, IAED) specializes on the architectural historiography and conservation of the twentieth-century Modern Movement architecture and its interiors in Turkey by the assessment of different building typologies, especially housing and healthcare architecture, and utilizes films as archives in her research. Her PhD dissertation (2018) titled ‘Housing the modern nation: The transformation of residential architecture in Ankara during the 1920s’ contributed to the missing gap in the literature of the 1920s’ housing in Ankara.

Researcher in the project titled ‘Architects who left their marks in Ankara’ and committee member in ‘docomomo_Türkiye Interior Design’, she is currently co-leading two projects, one titled ‘Architecture of Convalescence: Mapping the Sanatorium Heritage of Turkey’ supported by the Turkish Architects’ Association-1927 with Modern Architecture Research Award and the other titled ‘Between Medicine and Architecture in Mid-Century Turkey: Ankara’s Atatürk (Keçiören) Sanatorium’ supported by VEKAM with Ankara Research Awards.

In 2023, she joined the ‘DATUMM – Documenting and Archiving Modern Turkish Furniture’ team as one of the researchers and currently the team is working on documenting the lives of four Turkish women interior architects via oral history method.

Recent Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed international journals indexed by WoS (SCI, SSCI, Arts and Humanities, etc.)

Avci-Hosanli, Deniz, and Cansu Degirmencioglu. 2024. “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

Avci Hosanli, D. (2024), “Salient/silent actors of Ankara’s housing and the vocational network in the turmoil of transformation (1923–1928).” Open House International 49 (2): 285-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-12-2022-0306

Degirmencioglu, Cansu, and Deniz Avci Hosanli. 2023. “Transient yet Settled: The Rooms for Tuberculosis Patients in Turkish Sanatoria.” Res Mobilis 12 (16): 58–83. https://doi.org/10.17811/rm.13.16.2023.58-83

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2021. “Housing in Transition: The First Apartments of the New Capital City, Ankara.” Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 36 (3): 1141–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-020-09799-5

Publications in other peer reviewed journals

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and Umut Şumnu. 2023. “Anxiety of Luxury: Istanbul Hilton Hotel at the Stage of the Turkish Cinema during the 1960s-1970s.” Online Journal of Art and Design 11 (2): 14–31.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and Umut Şumnu. 2023. “Cinematic Re/Presentation of the New Winter Leisure Activity and Its Accommodation Settings and Venues at Turkey’s Mount Uludağ (1950s-1980s).” Online Journal of Art and Design 11 (1): 1–33.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and Giuseppe Resta. 2021. “Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans [Bir Ulus ve Modern Bir Başkent Inşa Etmek: Ankara ve Tiran’ın Ilk Imar Planlarının Karşılaştırmalı Bir Incelemesi].” İdealkent – Kent Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Urban Studies) 12 (34): 1693–1721. https://doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.980111.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and T. Elvan Altan. 2018. “The Residential Architecture of Ankara during the 1920s: The Housing Types in the Settlement Zones of the New Capital City [1920’lerde Ankara’nın Konut Mimarisi: Yeni Başkentin Yerleşim Bölgelerinde Konut Tipleri].” Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi [Journal of Ankara Studies] 6 (2): 83–210. https://doi.org/10.5505/jas.2018.08108.

Papers presented in international conferences

Hasirci, Deniz, Zeynep Tuna-Ultav, Melis Ornekoglu-Selcuk, and Deniz Avci-Hosanli. 2024. “Modern Interior Architects in Turkey: A Focus on Women.” In Docomomo Portugal and Docomomo ISC/ID International Conference: Modernist Women Interior Designers and Artists: To Deepen the Reading of the Different Expressions of Female Creativity. Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Hasırcı, Deniz, Zeynep Tuna Ultav, Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk, and Deniz Avci-Hosanli. 2023. “Women in Modern Interior Architecture and Furniture in Turkey: Nilgün Çarkacı as a Key Figure.” In Educating the Interior Designer. St-Lucas Ghent University, Belgium. [published in online abstract proceedings]

Avci-Hosanli, Deniz. 2023. “Beyond Decay: Nostalgia and Loss in Turkey’s Abandoned Twentieth-Century Sanatoria.” In AMPS Heritages, Past and Present – Built and Social. Prague, Czechia.  [published in full paper proceedings]

Degirmencioglu, Cansu, and Deniz Avci Hosanli. 2022. “Transient yet Settled: The Rooms for Tuberculosis Patients in Turkish Sanatoria.” In Design & Transience: Design History Society Annual Conference. Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir. [published as an article]

Degirmencioglu, Cansu, and Deniz Avci-Hosanli. 2022. “The Politics of Cutting and Gluing: Architectural Models as Propaganda in Early Republican Turkey.” In Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration. Darmstadt / Frankfurt.  [published in online and printed abstract proceedings, to be published as a book chapter]

Avci-Hosanli, Deniz. 2021. “The Portrayal of Care in Yeşilçam: Heybeliada, Süreyyapaşa and Kirazlıyayla Sanatorium Buildings.” In 14th 4T International Design and Design History Symposium “Who Cares.” Izmir: 4T – Design and Design History.

Publications in peer-reviewed national journals (Turkish citizens only)

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2020. “1920’lerin Ankara’sından Bir Mahallenin ve Konutlarının Anlattıkları [Narrative of a Neighborhood and Its Housing from the 1920s’ Ankara].” İdealkent – Kent Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Urban Studies) 11 (31): 1517–48. https://doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.795488.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz. 2016. “Ankara İsti̇klal (Yahudi̇) Mahallesi̇: Tari̇hi̇, Dokusu ve Konutları [İsti̇klal (Jewish) Quarter in Ankara: History, Tissue and Houses].” TÜBA-KED – Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Kültür Envanteri Dergisi [Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Cultural Inventory], no. 14: 71–104.

Publications in proceedings of national conferences (Turkish citizens only)

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2022. “Cumhuriyet’in Ilk on Yılında Heybeliada Sanatoryumu: Değişen Mekânsal Kurgular ve Modernleş(Tiril)En Iç Mekanlar [Heybeliada Sanatorium during the First Decade of the Republic: Transforming Spatial Organizations and Modern(Ized) Interiors].” In Symposium on Modern Interiors in Turkey II. Yaşar University, Izmir: docomomo_tr interior design. [published in online and printed abstract proceedings, to be published as a book chapter]

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and Cansu Değirmencioğlu. 2022. “Heybeliada Sanatoryumu, Tevfik İsmail Gökçe Kadınlar Pavyonu, Yemek Salonu [Heybeliada Sanatorium, Tevfik İsmail Gökçe Women’s Pavilion, Dining Hall Interiors].” In Symposium on Modern Interiors in Turkey II. Yaşar University, Izmir: docomomo_tr interior design.

Değirmencioğlu, Cansu, and Deniz Avcı Hosanlı. 2022. “Taksim Belediye Gazinosu İç Mekanları [Taksim Municipality Club, Interior Spaces].” In Symposium on Modern Interiors in Turkey II. Yaşar University, Izmir: docomomo_tr interior design.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2021a. “Erzurumlu Nafiz Bey Apartmanı.” In Türkiye Mimarlığında Modernizmin Yerel Açılımları XVII. online: docomomo_tr.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2021b. “Işıklar Sokak No.22 Apartmanı.” In Türkiye Mimarlığında Modernizmin Yerel Açılımları XVII. online: docomomo_tr.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2020. “1920’ler Ankarası’nın Konutlarında Mekansal Dönüşüm [Spatial Transformation of the 1920s’ Ankara’s Housing].” In Symposium on Modern Interiors in Turkey I. Özyeğin University, Istanbul: docomomo_tr interior design. [published in online and printed abstract proceedings, to be published as a book chapter]

Books, Book chapters

Avcı, Deniz, and Cansu Değirmencioğlu. 2024. “100. Yılda İstanbul Sanatoryumlarına Yeniden Bakmak: Yapı Tipleri ve Veremden Sonraki Yaşamları.” [Revisiting Istanbul Sanatoriums on the Centennial of the Turkish Republic: Building Types and Their Afterlives Post Tuberculosis] In Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Mimarlık, edited by İpek Akpınar and Şebnem Hoşkara. Ankara: İdealkent. In publication.

Hasırcı, Deniz, Deniz Avcı, Zeynep Tuna Ultav, and Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk. 2024. “Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında (İç Mekan ve) Mobilya.” [Furniture (and Interior design) in the 100th Anniversary of the Republic] In Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Mimarlık, edited by İpek Akpınar and Şebnem Hoşkara. Ankara: İdealkent. In publication.

Avcı, Deniz. 2024a. “Cumhuriyet’in İlk On Yılında Heybeliada Sanatoryumu: Değişen Mekânsal Kurgular ve Modernleş(Tiril)En İç Mekânlar [Heybeliada Sanatorium during the First Decade of the Republic: Transforming Spatial Organizations and Modern(Ized) Interiors].” In Türkiye’de Modern İç Mekânlar II, edited by Elvan Altan, Gülnur Ballice, Deniz Hasırcı, Umut Şumnu, and Zeynep Tuna Ultav. Istanbul: Binat Yayıncılık. In publication.

Avcı, Deniz. 2024b. “1920’ler Ankarası’nın Konutlarında Mekansal Dönüşüm.” [Spatial Transformation of the 1920s’ Ankara’s Housing] In Türkiye’de Modern İç Mekanlar 1, edited by T. Elvan Altan, Deniz Hasırcı, Pınar Sezginalp Özçetin, Umut Şumnu, and Zeynep Tuna Ultav, 57–80. Ankara & İstanbul: docomomo_tr iç mekan ve Binat. In publication.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and T. Elvan Altan. 2023. “Population Movements and Settlement in the New Capital City: Spatial and Social Transformation of Ankara during the 1920s.” In Settlements and Displacement in Turkey: Struggle and Rejuvenation, edited by Özlem Erdoğdu Erkarslan and Ela Alanyalı Aral, 17–43. London: Routledge.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2023a. “Evsellikte ‘Servis’in Tasviri: 1950-1980 Yeşilçam Sinemasında Konut Içi ‘Hizmet’ Mekânlarında Misafir Ağırlama.” [Depiction of ‘Service’ in Domesticity: Hosting Guests in Domestic ‘Service’ Spaces in Yeşilçam Cinema, 1950-1980] In Ev: Tarihsel, Toplumsal ve Sembolik Bir Mekân Olarak Anlamı ve Dönüşümü, edited by Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız, 65–92. İstanbul: Nika.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2023b. “Dönem Dergilerinde Iç Mekân ve Tasarım.” [Interior Space and Design in Periodicals] In Çizgilerle Türkiye’de Moden Iç Mekân, edited by Umut Şumnu, 17–20. b.kitap: İstanbul.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2023c. “İstanbul Hilton Oteli.” In Çizgilerle Türkiye’de Moden Iç Mekân, edited by Umut Şumnu, 39–43. b.kitap: İstanbul.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2023d. “Mimar/Arkitekt Dergisinde İç Mekân Tasarımı: ‘Binanın Içinde Mimar’, ‘Dahili Mimari’ ve ‘Dekoratör Nizami.’” [Interior Design in Mimar/Arkitekt Magazine: ‘Architect Inside the Building’, ‘Interior Architecture’ and ‘Decorator Nizami.’] In Çizgilerle Türkiye’de Moden İç Mekân, edited by Umut Şumnu, 10–13. b.kitap: İstanbul.

Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz. 2023e. “Yeşilçam Filmlerinde ‘Lükslük/Refahlık/Zenginlik’ Söylemi, Özlemi ve Eleştirisi: ‘İstanbul Hilton Oteli’ Üzerinden Bir Okuma.” [‘Luxury/Prosperity/Wealth’ Discourse, Longing and Criticism in Yeşilçam Films: A Reading on ‘Istanbul Hilton Hotel’] In Başrolde Mimarlık: Yeşilçam Filmlerinde Mekân ve Modernite, edited by Umut Şumnu, 67–120. İstanbul: Everest.

Media Coverage

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Country Focus

Turkey

Expertise by Geography

Anatolia, Eastern Europe, Middle East

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, Modern, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Art & Architectural History, Medicine, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Urban History, Women