Virtual Joint Lecture – Burak Erdim, PhD

Burak Erdim, PhD | Assoc. Professor of Architecture | NC State University

Book Release Talk: Landed Internationals

Friday, February 26 | 12:00 pm

CE credit pending approval

• Online program – RSVP required for continuing education credit
• Deadline to register is 11:00 am on Friday, February 26th
• Zoom meeting link will be emailed to registrants the morning of the program

Burak Erdim teaches lecture and seminar courses on the history of modernity, modern architecture, and urbanism as well as graduate and undergraduate studios. He is also the coordinator of the Graduate Concentration in the History and Theory of Architecture. His research examines the operations of transnational networks of housing and planning during the twentieth century within contexts of decolonization, national liberation, and globalization, as well as in relation to discourses and political economies of development. His forthcoming book, Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of Texas Press, 2020), examines how postwar encounters in housing and planning transformed the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity. He is a contributor to Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative’s next project entitled, Systems and the South. He also serves on the editorial board of Southern Cultures.

Erdim’s research has been supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon initiative in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (fall 2016), the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at MIT (spring 2017), and the Fulbright Program (2007-8). Prior to joining NC State, Erdim received his Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Virginia and taught as a visiting assistant professor at Mississippi State University.