Associate Professor, Southeast University, China (since 2021)
Associate Professor, Mersin University, Turkey (2016-2021, Department Chair from 2017 to 2020)
Assistant Professor, Mersin University (2012-2016)
Instructor, Mersin University (2008-2012)
Instructor, University of Pennsylvania (2005)
Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania (2002-2007)
Research Assistant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2000-2001)
Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (1998-1999)
BIO
Esra Şahin Burat is an Associate Professor at the Southeast University in Nanjing, China, where she also serves as the vice director of the Asian Architectural Archive Center. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from the Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Master of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA), and PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). She is a recipient of the SOM Foundation Fellowship and the ACSA Steel Design Award for Excellence among other awards. She is a registered architect in Turkey, where she was commissioned by provincial municipalities as a consultant and designer for various urban renewal projects. She was the vice president-elect of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Mersin Chapter and an elected member of the Mersin City Council Executive Board. As a co-researcher, she participated in an extensive multidisciplinary research project focusing on shelter design for extreme climates led by the University of Bath (UK). Her areas of interest include architectural theory and design, particularly theories of nature, materials, orientation, habitation, and representation in architecture, and the relationship between architecture and the natural/cultural environment.
"City as Compass and Calendar: Le Corbusier's Radiant City and the Apartment Building 24NC," in Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and Against the City, D. Leatherbarrow, ed. (London: Artifice Press, 2023)
“On Moderation: The Ancient Virtue and its Reception in Architectural Theory,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Reception of Classical Architecture, N. Temple, A. Piotrowski, and J. M. Heredia, editors (London: Routledge, 2019)
"Modern Rhythms: The Five Points of a New Architecture of Concordance," Architectural Journal 637 (December 2021): 20-26.
“Taşı Taş Gibi, Ahşabı Ahşap Gibi Göstermek:” Frank Lloyd Wright'ın Malzeme Teorisi" ["Let the Stone Appear as Stone, Wood as Wood:" Frank Lloyd Wright's Theory of Materials], in METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, v. 29 n. 1 (2012), 321-338. doi: 10.4305
