Pınar Aykaç is an associate professor at the Middle East Technical University’s Department of Architecture in Ankara, Turkey. She received an MSc in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage from Middle East Technical University, and a PhD from UCL, the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her research interests include the relationship between heritage sites and museums, heritage politics and contestations, and the interpretation and presentation of heritage places. She is the author of Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula: Musealization and Urban Conservation (Lexington Books, 2022) and the co-editor of Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement and Catastrophe (I.B. Tauris, 2021) together with Eray Çaylı and Sevcan Ercan. She is currently one of the co-editors of Heritage & Society Journal.
Post- Earthquake Damage Assessment, Emergency Response, Conservation, Rehabilitation and Resilience of Cultural Heritage Assets in Multi-layered City: Antakya, Hatay (in construction)
Turkey (Antakya), 2023, Cultural Emergency Response (CER), Altınöz, G.B. (director), Türer, A., Güçhan N.Ş., Özçakır, Ö., Esen, S.Y., Akyildiz, F.D., Asrav, E.Ç., Ergenç, E., Çalişkan, O., Büyükcivelek, B., Okumuş, G., Öztürk, M., Diker, İ., Tuğrul, S.
Commagene Nemrut World Heritage Site Management Plan (Realised)
Turkey (Adıyaman), 2021-2022, Silkroad Development Agency, Güçhan N.Ş (director), Altınöz, G.B., Ataöv, A., Rifaioğlu, M.N.
Aykaç, P. Absent Presents: musealisation of the historic town of Hasankeyf as a manifestation of ‘Absent Heritage’, Journal of Architectural Conservation, 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556207.2023.2180715
Aykaç, P. Absent Presents: musealisation of the historic town of Hasankeyf as a manifestation of ‘Absent Heritage’, Journal of Architectural Conservation, 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556207.2023.2180715
Çayli E, Aykaç P, and Ercan S. (eds) Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement and Catastrophe, I.B. Tauris, 2021. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/architectures-of-emergency-in-turkey-9781788319904/
Aykaç, P. Contesting the Byzantine Past: Four Hagia Sophias as Ideological Battlegrounds of Architectural Conservation in Turkey, Heritage and Society, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2159032X.2019.1670502