About
E. Seda Kayim is an architect, media producer and historian. She is a PhD candidate in Taubman College’s doctoral studies in Architecture, and is pursuing a graduate certificate in German Studies. Her research bridges between media studies and architectural theory, with a special focus on interwar and postwar German media theory, and 20th century architecture in Europe, the Soviets and the US. Seda’s topical interests include (post)modernist architectural discourse, critical theory, cultural studies, new materialism and the history of Cold War.
Seda is currently working on an “architectural history of surveillance” of the German Democratic Republic, and investigates the correlations between the technologies of mass production and conditions of mass surveillance as they were reflected in the materialities of East German built environment. Her research was thus far funded by Weiser Center Center for European Studies, and Rackham International Research Award.
Seda holds a BSc in Architecture, and a MSc in the History and Theory of Architecture from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, where she worked as an architectural journalist and multi-media designer prior to joining the doctoral program at Taubman College.
