Associate Professor
Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
McGill University
Ipek Türeli holds the Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice at McGill University where is she is appointed as Associate Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. Before joining McGill University, she completed the Architectural Association’s Diploma, a PhD in Architecture at the University of California Berkeley, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, and the Aga Khan Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT.
At McGill, she is Coordinator since 2016 of the Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology under the Lin Centre, and serves as University Senator and as MAUT Council member. She currently serves in the editorial team of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and as a member of the Advisory Council of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE).
Her recent research interests include low-cost housing and participatory design, civil protest and urban design, and campus landscapes and race. She has many publications on visualizations of the city in photography, film, exhibitions, and museums. Her research on Istanbul was awarded several fellowships and grants including that by the Graham Foundation, Mellon Foundation and MERC in the US. Her publications include the co-edited book Orienting Istanbul (2010) and authored book Istanbul Open City (2018). Türeli has been engaged in several collaborative public facing, research-creation projects such as the “Design for the Global Majority” project (2023). She is currently working on a solo-authored book manuscript on early American college campuses in the Middle East, the research of which has been supported by grants from the SSHRC and FQRSC, and an article based on which came out in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (June 2024).