Reconstructing HOME: Developing our Urban Vision in Boston

An introduction to urban design, notions of home, and utopian visions in literature and architecture will help the students generate their own utopian home on an island in the Old Harbor in Boston. This new idealized home is connected with the city of Boston, but could well function as a self-sustaining urban project. Together and in groups we will think about the design of public and private functions, modes of transport, social and spatial networks taking into account up-to-date sustainable and ecological city solutions.

Aylin Yildirim

DDes, Harvard

Aylin Brigitte Yildirim received the Graduate Engineer Diploma in Architecture in Germany in 2003 and began working as an architect on public and private projects soon after. In 2007, Aylin received the Master of Science degree after carrying out case studies in informal settlements in Istanbul, Turkey proposing an alternative strategy for upgrading. At the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Aylin has been working as a teaching fellow for seminars and design studios. Concurrently as a doctoral candidate at Harvard, Aylin pursues an academic career in the field of urban studies. Her research interest lies in comprehensive and interdisciplinary urban design approaches to issues resulting from rapid urbanization and migration in regard to urban and rural development. Aylin will start a PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies in Fall 2011 which will allow her to expand and deepen her expertise in interdisciplinary work, research and teaching.