ENGIN TULAY
Architecture, Urbanism, Car & Transportation Design & Lecturer
www.engintulay.com
engin.tulay@icloud.com
Basel & Zürich, Switzerland
EDUCATION
MA Urban Studies University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Switzerland
2023’25 Critical Urbanisms. One of three interdisciplinary master’s programs affiliated with the University of Basel, alongside Changing Societies and Sustainable Development.
MA Car and Transportation Design Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2007’08 Master’s thesis: Alfa Romeo Orbita. Engaging in a dual conversation, intertwining influences from the past with contemporary design cues, embodied in a sculptural form.
Workshop An Endeavor in Discontinuity of Car Design Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2010 Examining the evolution of car design, with a focus on architectures that better reflect emerging social habits and gestures as part of experimental mobility concepts, led by Chris Bangle.
Workshop The Paradigm After the Next Car Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2009 Envisioning a new generation of sustainable shared transportation for the year 2050, inspired by the concept of mass migration from rural areas to cities. This approach focuses on designing transportation systems that connect with users on an emotional level, led by Chris Bangle.
MSc Architecture Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Turkey
1999’03 Master’s thesis: Architecture and Automobile: Place with Continuously Changing Boundaries. Offering a new perspective on humanity's journey through various spatial dimensions, the car is positioned as a cross-section between architecture and the city. The analysis explores the corporeal reality shaped by machines, highlighting the car’s spatial dimensions, which resemble an architectural space shaped by multiple human sensations.
BA Architecture Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Turkey
1993’98 Architecture
HS Kabatas Erkek (Boys’) Advanced High School, Istanbul Turkey
1989’92 Department of Mathematics
GIVEN WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
Lecture Car as a Spatial Memory Ayvansaray University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2020 Analyzing the car as a tangible representation of physical forms while exploring its symbolic and aesthetic qualities. This evaluation considers the car’s profound influence on human life within an urban context, positioning it as a form of inhabitable infrastructure.
Workshop The Journey Osmangazi University Faculty of Architecture, Eskisehir Turkey
2019 Exploring collaborative expression and synergy through the emotional experiences of a journey, and provoking deep reflection on new forms of mobility with a focus on sensory understanding. In parallel with trans-dimensional spatial studies, it analyzes contemporary information networks as habitats, artificial infrastructures, and living organisms, while embracing the interconnections and qualities of digital spaces and their enigmatic inhabitants.
Lecture Car as a Documentary Bilgi University Communication in Design, Istanbul Turkey
2019’20 Examining how the car translates messages into signs, attributes, and symbols, shaping cultural codes through the interplay between macro and micro mobility.
Lecture Car as an Interface Osmangazi University Faculty of Architecture, Eskisehir Turkey
2017 Recognizing cars as an interface between urban environments and architecture, this view sees the relationship between home and car as symbiotic. Exploring how mobile lifestyles can evolve by following emerging mobility patterns, with a focus on addressing spatial changes.
Workshop PostCAR MEF University FADA Architectural Design Festival, Istanbul Turkey
2017 Giving that future cities will be radically transformed by mobility patterns, seeking to create tools for designing them as psycho-physical and socio-technological structures. Aiming to develop new living forms that integrate mobile and immobile architectural elements.
Lecture Car as a Metaphor Beykent University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2015 Exploring cultural concepts through the cognitive examination of various spatial planes and mobility parameters via cars, reflecting social consciousness and collective urban life.
Workshop Future Mobility Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2015 Exploring micro- and macro-mobility systems in response to urban morphology, while questioning today’s transportation paradigm and exploring new ways of intermodal mobility.
Workshop Cloud Machine Istanbul Technical University ART+ Design Festival, Istanbul Turkey
2012’13’14’15 Creating cognitive and visual musical structures and physically performing them, while considering sound as a primary dimension of space in architecture.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES & GIVEN COURSES
Architect
1999’- Experienced in a range of creative-technical disciplines, including architectural projects, interior design, furniture design, and construction. Skilled in conceptualizing, planning, and executing innovative solutions that integrate aesthetics, functionality, and sustainability. Proficient in creating tailored environments that meet both client needs and spatial requirements across diverse scales and contexts. Specialized in structural design.
Invited Academic Diploma Jury of Transportation Design RUBIKA ISD, Valenciennes France
2019 Fifth-year students in product, transportation, and digital design were evaluated by industry professionals. The event included 87 students defending their projects, 25 jury members, 24 partner companies, and participants from 12 countries.
Workshop The Parallel Car Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2019 Developing a car design project that builds upon existing conceptual practices while shaping its future. Focusing on how cars must evolve in response to changes in social contexts, the goal is to explore what cars could become through functional design experiments that inspire both imaginative and purposeful sustained features.
Course Future Mobility MEF University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2018’19’20 Exploring how future technologies can be integrated into the interaction between man and machine, focusing on cognitive sensations, spatial perceptions, and emotional responses influenced by mobility patterns. Assessing the biotic relationship between man and machine as envisioned in future city paradigms, proposing anthropoid-like connections alongside new forms of mobile lifestyles. Imagining mobile architecture in various environments.
Workshop TransCAR Life on the Move Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2018 Exploring potential future functions of cars, envisioning a transformative interaction between man and machine that redefines cars as architectural units. Designing future living configurations that enhance both the physical and psychological bond between humans and machines.
Workshop The Art of Mobility Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2017 Aiming to create a futuristic vision of mobility that embodies the essence of movement holistically, reflecting multiple aspects of symbolism and the content of motion, while opening pathways toward transdisciplinary studies for sustainable future mobility.
Workshop Sensing the Future Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2016 Aiming to create an innovative vision and demonstrate a commitment to shaping the future of mobility in the urban context. Focusing on the concept of driving as a journey, not a destination, and exploring how the transformation of human-machine interactions will enable people to express their senses, feelings, and emotions in the future.
Course Car Design as Mass Culture and Art Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Istanbul Turkey
2013’14’15’16’17 Evaluating cars through the lens of both structural and symbolic typologies, as well as machine aesthetics, while examining how these elements have evolved in response to societal and spatial changes throughout history, particularly in the modern era. By considering the intersection between architecture and the city, the aim is to redefine the context of cars, analyzing the factors that will shape the future of mobility as both a system and a program, with a focus on their evolving role in urban environments and human interaction.
Certificated Course Car Design Basics Bilgi University Continuing Education, Istanbul Turkey
2015’16’17’18 Aiming to establish an integrated car design approach within an interdisciplinary framework, encompassing design thinking, methodology, and communication. Seeking to foster a balanced blend of theoretical insights and applied knowledge, promoting innovation across all stages of the design process. Advancing sketching techniques plays a crucial role in refining creative expression, facilitating a deeper understanding of form, function, and emotions.
SKILLS
Languages: English (Advanced), German (Good), Italian (Good), Kurdish (Native), Turkish (Native)
Architectural project conceptualization, design theory, and construction management, with a strong focus on the integration of aesthetic vision and technical execution. Sketching, technical drawing, and rendering, complemented by hands-on expertise in model making and furniture design. Presentations that effectively communicate design concepts, process, and solutions.
PUBLICATIONS
Strategic Response of Carmakers to the Changes in the Car Industry
Master Thesis, supervised by Davide Malagamba
Served as a scientific advisor on the current car industry to provide insights. 2022 Montpellier Business School, Programme Grande École
Transhumanism and One Health
Co-author, alongside Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag (Biology), Andrea Kaiser Grolimund (Sociology), and Reinhold Bernhardt (Theology)
2024 University of Basel and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
