Ece Yetim is an architectural designer and multidisciplinary artist based in Boston. She focuses on representational practices and critical mapping and uses architectural drawing as a political medium to explore the potentials of public spaces and the solidarity they can foster. She has a passion for research and feminist pedagogies. Ece is co-founder of KOMM.UNITY, a women-owned experience design firm that creates transformative furniture and events aimed at strengthening community bonds and promoting multicultural dialogues.
She previously worked at Howeler + Yoon Architecture in Boston, where her experience ranged from exhibition and museum design to architectural competitions and tower design. Prior to HYA, she worked at Studio Daniel Libeskind in New York on the Maggie Center Clinic Project and exhibition design. She also worked at Atelier Bow Wow in Tokyo and AKS Architecture in Istanbul.
Ece holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture and a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. She also studied in the MArch and Sustainability exchange program at LUCA in Ghent, Belgium. Her writings include Shadowing the Silence: A Spatial Rewriting of Myths with Associate Professor Aslihan Senel (February 2023), an editorial for Women in Design and Architecture (Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies, 2022), Different Scales of Solidarity (MONU, 2021) and Tokyo Little Tokyo: Twin Spaces in Non-Identical Times (Manifold, 2019).
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
ARCH 2141-02 - ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTION
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2141-02
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTION
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ece YetimLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the beginning student to the origins, media, geometries and role(s) of projection drawing in the design and construction process. The student will learn systems of projection drawing from direct experience, and be challenged to work both from life and to life. Subjects such as transparency, figure/ground, sciagraphy, oblique projection, surface development, volumetric intersections, spatial manipulation and analytic operations will build on the basics of orthographic and conic projection. The course involves line and tone drawing, hand drafting, computer drawing (Autocad) and computer modeling (Rhino).
Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
This course, the first in a two semester sequence, explores design principles specific to architecture. Two interrelated aspects of design are pursued:
the elements of composition and their formal, spatial, and tectonic manipulation
meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ece YetimLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 310Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course centers around the digital model as a thing to be built, as a multivalent medium for architectural discourse, and as representation of built form. This course uses abstraction as the common thread between its prerequisite, Architectural Drawing, and an inquiry into the elements, natures, structures, and forms of the complex, temporal, cultural, material and political construct often referred to as "the building." Operations in the course are the techniques of analysis, translation and synthesis. The contemporary digital model is delimited and constrained by architectural software. This course recognizes that expertise in multiple digital modeling software-from Rhino to Building Information Modeling (BIM)-is as imperative as are skills to manipulate, undermine, link, automate and hack the media that dominate the discipline of architecture. A series of creative prompts engage the computational principles that underpin all digital modeling software. This "under the hood" approach is balanced by "over the hood" approaches that see students designing workflows, automation and output between software and material. The course engages the digital model as sample, system, and database as well as continually interrogates the translational relationship between model and drawing and model and image.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
