Yasemin Utku

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Yasemin Utku 2018 as a speaker at the Domforum
Yasemin Utku 2018

Yasemin Utku (* 1967 in Cologne ) is an architect and spatial planner and has been a professor for urban development and planning practice at the Technical University of Cologne since 2018 . In numerous essays and publications as well as a number of her research projects, she focuses on the structural change in North Rhine-Westphalia and on the preservation of urban monuments, most recently in relation to post-war modernism .

Life

Yasemin Utku grew up in Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine and initially trained as a florist from 1983 to 1986 . From 1990 she studied architecture at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences until she graduated in 1994. After receiving a scholarship at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1994, she worked as a freelancer and, from 1996, studied spatial planning at the University of Dortmund , which she completed in 2000 with a diploma.

From 2003 to 2009 she worked as a research assistant in research and teaching at the Institute for Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. From 2008 to 2014 teaching assignments in architecture, spatial planning and urban development at RWTH Aachen University , TU Dortmund University, Cologne District Government , Alanus University Alfter and Cologne Technical University followed. Between 2011 and 2013 she was a substitute professor for urban planning and urban planning at the FH Dortmund in the department of architecture. Then she taught and researched again at the TU Dortmund, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Department of Urban Development, Urban Design and Urban Development Planning. In addition to her academic work, Utku worked as a freelance urban planner and architect in Dortmund from 2001 to 2018.

In 2018 Yasemin Utku was appointed professor at TH Köln.

Utku is a founding member of the NRW urban preservation group as well as the ruhrmoderne eV initiative and a member of other committees and bodies.

Memberships (selection)

Research projects (selection)

Publications

  • with Renate Kastorff-Viehmann: Stadtbaurat Hans Strobel, Dortmund / . Verlag der Ruhr-Nachrichten, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 978-3-9800721-5-1 .
  • with Ilka Mecklenbrauck, Carina Tamoschus: Design Guide Dahlhauser Heide . Ed .: City of Bochum, The Lord Mayor, Building Department. Bochum 2011, ISBN 978-3-8093-0279-7 .
  • with Stephan Gudewer: The Desert is Alive - Engagement in Aging Districts of Single-Family Housing: Four Examples from North-Rhine Westphalia . Ed .: Andreas Beilein, Yukihiro Kadono, Jan Polívka, Christa Reicher. Dortmund University Library, Dortmund 2017, doi : 10.17877 / DE290R-17967 ( digitized via eldorado.tu-dortmund.de ).
  • Landesinitiative StadtBauKultur NRW 2020 (Ed.): Homework. Civic engagement in aging single-family home areas . Gelsenkirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-939745-16-7 ( digitized via stadtbaukultur-nrw.de [PDF]).

Articles (selection)

  • The cult of the great plan around 1910 - the design of metropolitan regions from a historical perspective. Conference report. In: German Institute for Urban Studies. (Ed.): Information on modern city history (IMS) . tape 1/2011 . Berlin 2011.
  • "Landscapes" in the Ruhr area - programs and programming . In: Renate Kastorff-Viehmann, Yasemin Utku, Regional Association Ruhr (ed.): Regional planning in the Ruhr area - learn from Robert Schmidt? Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, p. 137-150 .
  • Urban preservation of monuments as part of an integrated urban development - "mediation included" . In: Gudrun Escher, Magdalena Leyser-Droste, Walter Ollenik, Christa Reicher, Yasemin Utku (eds.): Magic backdrop - making urban quarters fit for the future (=  contributions to the preservation of urban monuments . No. 5 ). Essen 2014, p. 116-121 .
  • A “third way” of modernity in the Ruhr area. The new industrial city. Conference report . In: Institute for Urbanistics (Ed.): Information on modern city history (IMS) . tape 2/2015 . Berlin 2015, p. 148-152 .
  • Growth and order. Regional planning for the Ruhr coal district. In: Theo Deutinger, Philipp Oswalt, Timo Panzer (eds.): Ruhrmoderne 1967-2017. A short summer of utopia . Merzig / Kassel 2018, p. 36-46 .

Web links

Commons : Yasemin Utku  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DNB entry by Yasemin Utku. In: d-nb.info. German National Library, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Curriculum Vitae Dipl.-Ing. Yasemin Utku. (No longer available online.) In: staedtebauleitplanung.de. TH Dortmund, archived from the original ; accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Yasemin Utku is the new professor at Institute 05. In: th-koeln.de. TH Köln, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Yasemin Utku. In: master-staedtebau-nrw.de. Technical University of Cologne, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ About the project. In: bigbeautifulbuildings.de. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Eye to eye with the giants. In: Landesinitiative StadtBauKultur NRW 2020. 2017, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Utku, Yasemin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architect and spatial planner, professor at the TH Köln
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne