Books
Aktuna, Bahar (ed.). Design Build Record: Acting and Reflecting upon an Inaugural Work. Yeditepe University Press, 2024.

 

Book Chapters

Aktuna, Bahar. “Counter-Ruinant Act: Educational Pedagogies and Design/Build.” In Design Build Record: Acting and Reflecting upon an Inaugural Work, edited by B. Aktuna, pp. 29–35. Yeditepe University Press, 2024.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Esra Karahan. “Grafting Construction Thinking: An Action-Based Approach to Construction Course Redevelopment.” In Beyond Blueprints: Advancements in Architectural Education and Innovations, edited by H. R. Husain and H. A. Nia, pp. 23–50. Cinius Yayınları, 2023.

Ahmed, Erum, and Bahar Aktuna. “Graduate Student Symposium Review: Poetic|Ethical Measures of Place and Placemaking, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 30, 2018.” In Vorkurs 3: Echoes, edited by Elizabeth Carmody, 2019.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Carla Brisotto. “Agripoetic Resistance in Urban Architecture and Planning in the European World.” In Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post-Professional Era, edited by Hossein Sadri, pp. 207–228. Springer Nature, 2018.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Charlie Hailey. “Suspended in Mid-Air: Casting Nets and Making Places Between Earth and Sky at Meteora.” In Hermeneutics, Place and Space, edited by Bruce Janz, pp. 61–82. Springer, 2017.

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Journal Articles

Aktuna, Bahar, and Charlie Hailey. “Productive/Disruptive Space of Design/Build Work: Encounters Between Techne and Praxis of Freedom.” Charrette 10(1), 2025, pp. 109–127.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Özgür Köylüoğlu. “Pushing the Boundaries of Architectural and Engineering Education: A Case Study Analysis of the Experience, Outcomes, and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Design Studio.” Journal of Mediterranean Cities 4(1), 2024.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Owned Ruin Encounter in the Villages of the Turkish-Cypriots in Cyprus.” AR / Architecture Research Journal, 2021.

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Conference Proceedings

Karahan, Esra, Bahar Aktuna, and Sude Acarbay. “Developing Construction Knowledge and Technical Representation Through Experiential Learning in Architectural Education: A Pedagogical Approach Using 3D-Printed Building Kits.” In Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA), 9(1), 2620021. 2026. DOI: 10.38027/ICCAUA2026TR0021.

Aktuna, Bahar, Esra Karahan, Bükre Pazar, and Sude Acarbay. “From Accuracy to Agency: Open Systems and Constructive Play in the Teaching of Construction in Architectural Education.” In A Focus on Pedagogy: Emerging Theories, Teaching & Technologies, AMPS Proceedings Series 47, 125–138. 2025. ISSN 2398-9467.

Öztürk Arslan, Ümmü N., and Bahar Aktuna. “A Grounded Theory Approach to the Transformation of Railway Sites in Türkiye.” In Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1203–1214, 2025.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Begüm Bayraktaroğlu. “Material Honesty in Architectural Discourse.” In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design (ICNTAD). Istanbul, 2024. ISBN: 978-625-99435-1-0.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Pınar Çalışır Adem. “Architecture for Action: Reflections on the ‘Other’ in Design Studio.” In Proceedings of LivenARCH VII: Other Architect/ure(s): 7th International Congress on Livable Environments and Architecture. Trabzon: Karadeniz Technical University, 2021. ISBN: 978-605-2271-42-1.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Re-Appropriation of Public Space as Queer: A Case of Northern Part of Cyprus.” In [Re]appropriation of the City: Architecture as a Tool for the Re-appropriation of the Contemporary City, pp. 59–65. Proceedings of Tirana Architecture Week Scientific Conference. POLIS University, 2012.

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Conference Presentations

Aktuna, Bahar, and Özgür Köylüoğlu. “An Alternative Approach to Architecture and Civil Engineering Education: The Case of Solar Decathlon Studio.” ICCAUA 2024, Alanya, Turkey, 23–24 May 2024.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Charlie Hailey. “Productive/Disruptive Space of Design/Build Work: Encounters Between Techne and Praxis of Freedom.” Association of Architectural Educators (AAE) Conference, Cardiff University, UK, 12–15 July 2023.

Aktuna, Bahar, and Esra Karahan. “Grafting Construction Thinking: An Action-Based Approach to Course Redevelopment.” ICCAUA 2023, Istanbul, Turkey, 14–15 May 2023.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Ruins, Remains, and Ruptures of Dwelling in Postwar Cyprus.” IASTE 2018, Coimbra, Portugal, 4–7 October 2018.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Standing by the Ruins of Turkish Cypriot Villages in Postwar Cyprus.” University of Florida School of Architecture Graduate Student Symposium, Gainesville, Florida, 30 April 2018.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Mood and Meaning in Ruins: Revisiting Deserted Settlements of Turkish Cypriot Community in Southern Cyprus.” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 18–22 April 2018.

Aktuna, Bahar. “World Decay and Place Ruinance in Louroujina Village in Cyprus.” Social Science History Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2–5 November 2017.

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Selected Invited Lectures and Talks

Aktuna, Bahar, and Erum Ahmed. “Architect as a Maker.” University of Florida, 22 October 2024.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Upcycle Istanbul: Mekansal Tasarımda İleri Dönüşüm.” Müze Gazhane, 9 June 2024.

Hailey, Charlie, Bahar Aktuna, and Berna Göl. “Design/Build as Research.” Aura İstanbul, 11 November 2023.

Aktuna, Bahar. “From Techne to Tahta.” University of Florida School of Architecture, 11 November 2020.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Poetic-Tectonic Encounters: On the Method and Process of a Work.” Yeditepe University, 30 June 2020.

Aktuna, Bahar. “Being in Ruin: A Research Design.” Yeditepe University, 24 February 2020.

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Published Design/Research Projects
Aktuna, Bahar, Esra Karahan, Sude Acarbay and Bükre Pazar. Yapı Eğitiminde Deneyimsel Öğrenme: 3B Yazıcı Tabanlı Eğitim Kitleri. In Türkiye İMSAD Geleceğe Yatırım Faaliyetleri – Sivil Toplum 2025. Türkiye İMSAD, 2026.
Ahmed, Erum, and Bahar Aktuna. “Ecopoetic Polis.” In De-Urbanised Epidemics: Planetary Coopetition for Re-Design of the Concept of Health in Relation to the Built Environment, edited by Hossein Sadri and Marzia Sangio, 12–15, Commons Books, Ecodemia, 2021.