Publications

[01]
“Building the ‘Russian’ South Caucasus” in Handbook of the Modern History of the Caucasus, eds. Stefan Kirmse and Naira Sahakyan (forthcoming).
[02]
“Lost in Translation?: Property and Empire Building in the Russian South Caucasus,” in Lines of Property, eds. Claire Zimmerman, Peter Christensen, and Lisa Haber Thomson (forthcoming, 2026).
[03]
“Replacing Property: The Imperial Urban Development of Batum, 1878-1905,” in Off-Center: Architectures of Russian and Soviet Imperialism, eds. Markus Lähteenmäki and Da Hyung Jeong (forthcoming, Leuven University Press, 2026).
[04]
“Calvino Travels to the East: Invisible Cities, Open Architecture, and Orientalism,” in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Around the World: Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders, eds. Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz (Routledge, 2024).
[05]
“Homogenizing the Border: Kars after the Pogrom of 1955,” in Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas, eds. Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi (Routledge, 2024).
[06]
“‘Against the Privatised, the Preconditioned, and the Asylum-like:’ Frank van Klingeren’s Challenge to Open Architecture,” The Journal of Architecture 27, no: 2 (2022): 202–224.
[07]
“Architect of Nothingness: Frank van Klingeren’s Open Architecture,” Footprint 16, no: 2 (2022): 145–156.

[08]
“In the Scale of Nations,” The Canadian Center for Architecture, 2020.[09]
“Rehearsing the Border: Politics of Spatiality in Contemporary Artworks in Kars and Ani, Turkey,” in Mediating the Spatiality of Conflicts, eds. A. Pilav, M. Schoonderbeek, H. Sohn, and A. Staničić (BK Books, 2020).[10]
“Bordering on Agoraphilia and Agoraphobia:
Artistic Practices
on Turkey’s Borderlands,” Peer 5 (2018): 58–68 (co-authored).

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Ecem Saricayir[01]
Publications[02]
Teaching[03]
Exhibitions[04]
History Theory Experiments Lab at CCA