Hossein Sadri

Dr. Hossein Sadri is a critic and activist. He studied architecture and received his Master of Science degree from Tabriz Azad University in Iran and completed his Ph.D. studies at Gazi University in Turkey. During his PhD studies he conducted research on ethics and philosophy of Human Rights and wrote his thesis on “Architecture and Human Rights”. As an activist he worked in different positions in the Amnesty International. He was the national coordinatior of Human Rights Education and the EU Representative of Amnesty International in Turkey. He currently holds an Associate Professor position at the Department of Architecture in Girne American University, where he teaches courses on ethics and philosophy of architecture, urbanization and social ecology and architectural/urban design. He is also the co-leader of the "De-Urban Design Studio" a design studio which applies urban acupuncture, permaculture design and transition design approached. He is the member of the borad of the GAU Centre for Habitat Studies. He is a permaculture designer (PDC 2017 Permaculture Research Institute TURKEY) and studies Agriculture at Anadolu University. He worked as the head of the department of architecture and the dean of the faculty of architecture, design and fine arts from 2012 and he left the position after his appointment as the vice rector for research and international relations in 2016. He wrote and edited several books, journals and articles. Recently he edited a book, entitled "Neoliberalisma and Architecture of the Post-Professional Era" which is expected to be published in 2018 by Springer-Nature. During 2018 academic year, he conducts research on Current Urbanization Problems as a visiting scholar in the Graduate Program in Urban Design, in Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York - CUNY.
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