The Events
In addition to the architectural and cultural-artistic projects we produce, The Circle, as an “open-space” hosts various cultural-artistic events and talks. These events ranging from theatre to literature, from cinema to music fosters The Circle’s structure as a multi-disciplinary platform.
City and Ecology
Circle Seminary continues with a seminar called City and Ecology under the tutorship of Dilek Yürük. See the event page for more information.
Young Enterprises In Architecture / Studio V
In this session of Circle Talks: Young Enterprises in Architecture series, we welcome the Studio V team. In addition to getting to know the Studio V team better, we also aim to discuss the experience of being young in architectural scene.
Architecture and Cinema: Utopian Cities
Circle Seminars continue with a new seminar named ‘Architecture and Cinema: Utopian Cities’ by Işıl Baysan Serim. In this seminar, we’ll discuss how films shape and represent utopian urban imaginations in relation to architecture.
Young Enterprises In Architecture / AnkaraAks
Circle Talks continues with a session hosted by AnkaraAks this week. In the program, we will have the opportunity to get to know AnkaraAks and their works closely, as well as discuss what it means to be young in architectural communities.
Nobody Cares About Piknik
Circle Talks continues with a broadcast named ‘Things You Didn’t Wonder About Piknik’, on 21 May, Friday, where we are hosting Piknik Works. We’ll be asking Piknik everything that hasn’t been answered before and all that are left on behind the cameras.
Architectural History Of Beyoğlu
This seminar aims to tell the arctitectural history of Beyoğlu throughout different periods. Important structures and architects to be selected from various periods and styles will enable us to analyze the history of Beyoğlu with an architectural and sociological perspective.
Young Enterprises In Architecture / MAP Team
As part of the Circle Talks where we host creatives who work on different scales and fields of arts and architecture, on this week’s episode we hosted MAP (Architecture Atelier Pamukkale) on a live broadcast. You can find both the recording of the event and the Z-Report prepared by the MAP Team, below.
Space in Performing Arts / Istanbul Fringe
As part of Circle Talks events, we hosted Istanbul Fringe team's Yasemin Kır, Emre Yıldızlar, Denizhan Çay and Zeynep Uğur at an online event on Thursday, April 1. Focusing on the intersection of performance and space, the event was open to everyone interested in art, performance and architecture!
Digital Spaces / Nohlab
The Circle Digital Talks continues its brodcast program. This week Nohlab will be with us with a talk titled ‘Digital Spaces’ on Thursday, March 18, between 20: 00-21: 30.
Architecture Talks 04: Notes From Brazzaville
The Circle's 'pop-up' architecture talk series that focuses each week on an architectural issue, continues on 16.03.2021, Tuesday, at 20:00, with a talk on Brazzaville, Congo Republic.
Architecture and Photography
In this online seminar, the theoretical, practical and artistic connections between architecture and photography will be examined around the question of how the architectural gaze affects photography and vice versa.
Architecture Talks 03: On Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020
The Circle's 'pop-up' architecture talk series that focuses each week on an architectural issue, continued this week with another talk on Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020.
Architecture Talks 02: Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020
The Circle's 'pop-up' architecture talk series that focuses each week on an architectural issue, continues with a talk on Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020.
In this session of the series, Selçuk Avcı and Banu Binat will discuss the first Istanbul Festival of Architecture that took place in December 2020. Avcı and Binat, who were on the executive committee of the festival, will have a conversation about the festival's aims, its preparation process and the future possibilities.
You are invited to the talk that will be broadcast live on The Circle's Instagram account!
Architecture Talks 01: Africa Rising
The Circle's 'pop-up' architecture talk series that will focus each week on an architectural issue, began on 4th February, Thursday, with a talk on Africa. Selçuk Avcı joined the talk from the capital of Ruanda, Kigali and Yüksel Demir joined him from İstanbul.
Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020
Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020 took place online between December 5th-11th. During the festival 48 events were staged, which included workshops, panels, keynotes, webinars and trips.
The Architects of Beyoğlu
This seminar will focus on the stories and working styles of architects who were effective in the construction of the historical and aesthetical identity of Beyoğlu.
Yoga Class
This course will gently lead you to discover the best parts of your life and yourself and find increasingly inspiring perspectives for your own personal growth.
Art, Architecture and Power
Focusing on the secret and open relationship of art and architecture with power, this seminar will address the connections between artistic production, subject, public space and the city, as well as the links between art and architecture with politics and society.
Body in the 20th and 21st Century Art
In this event, participants will have information about the history of the body and body politics in different cultures through female artists positions the body to the center in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Film Analysis
In this seminar, over 13 films including Vertov's Man wih a Movie Camera, Godard's Breathless, and Scorsese's Taxi Driver will be analysed including a wide reading on ideology, politics, modernism, postmodernism, culture, and shocking events from the 1920s to the 1960s and 1970s.