Elif Öztek

Elif Öztek is a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey. She specializes in architectural design, feminist architecture, and avant-garde movements, with a focus on post-pandemic spatial transformations and historical contexts.

• Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree: Gazi University (2015–2019)
  • Master's Degree: Middle East Technical University (2015–2018)
  • Doctorate: Middle East Technical University (2019–ongoing)

Her research explores intersections between architecture and theater, feminist design principles, and futurism in post-COVID-19 contexts. Recent publications analyze avant-garde theater spaces, event-space theories in cinema, and idealist settlements of the 20th century.

In 2015, she won the New Erbaa Çamlık Social Habitat National Architectural Project Competition. She contributes to academic projects like AKMEDAM (Mediterranean Civilizations Research) and ATAMER (Atatürk Principles and Modern Turkish History).

Elif teaches courses including:

• Architectural Design Workshop I & II
• Architectural Communication Techniques I & II
• Performing Arts in Architecture
• Nature and Architecture