Baykan Günay

Biography

Baykan Günay was born in 1945 in Ankara. Completed high school at Ankara College in 1963 and the same year he entered the City and Regional Planning Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University. Completed undergraduate program in 1968 (B.C.P.), graduate in 1971 (M.C.P.) and PhD in 1995. His master thesis concentrated on relations between planning ideologies and society. The Ph. D. study interrogated the relations between ownership patterns and urban space. He earned associate professorship in 1997 and professorship in 2011.  He started professional career as a free-lance planner in 1968 and prepared the plans of small towns in Turkey; later worked as project coordinator in the Tourism Bank of Turkey in the South Antalya Tourism Development Project granted by the World Bank between 1975 and 1980. In the same period he attended studio works as part-time instructor at the Middle East Technical University.  From 1981 to 2012 he worked in the Department of City and Regional Planning Department mainly as studio instructor. He also taught the students of architecture, principles of urban planning and design. He founded the Urban Design graduate program in 1996 and moderated it until 2012, instructing studio works and teaching theory of urban space and property relations. 

Research Interest

His main fields of interest cover basic design in planning education, physical planning, development and master planning, site planning techniques, ownership patterns and urban space, tourism and coastal planning, and history of spatial development.