Cem S. Kayatekin holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Oregon, completed under the tutelage of Howard Davis.
His teaching and research interests are focused on:
(1) the topic of urban socioeconomic resilience and inclusivity, specifically within the context of how the physical, the socioeconomic, and the political dynamics of a city operate and overlap;
(2) discourse analysis relating to complex adaptive systems and socioeconomic resilience;
(3) architecture and urbanism as a product caught between the realms of societal politico-economics on the one hand, and the more-localized and at times individualized processes of problem resolution on the other; and
(4) the just city, and the right to the city that it encompasses.
Cem is also the co-founder of DICE group, an architecture, and urbanism firm anchored primarily in Sri Lanka.
• Assistant Professor, IE University, Spain, January, 2018 – Present
• Ph.D Architecture, University of Oregon, 2012 – 2017
• MArch, Cornell University, 2009 – 2010
• BArch, Auburn University, 2005 – 2009
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