Suphi Saatçi

Suphi Saatçi is a Turkish senior architect, restorator and academician of Iraqi Turkmen background.
Early life
Saatçi was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1946 to Iraqi Turkmen parents. He completed his primary and secondary education in the same city. He attended the formerly named State Academy of Fine Arts (now Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) in Istanbul, Turkey and earned his master's degree in architecture there in 1974. He attended the doctoral program at the Restoration Department of Istanbul Technical University's Faculty of Architecture, and graduated from the program in 1993.
Career
After graduating, he worked as a freelance architect specializing in the field of historic preservation. He worked as a consultant to firms and institutions.
He became Associate Professor in 1994 at the Historic Preservation Department of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He became Head of the Department in 1997 and Director of the Vocational School in 2002. Shortly afterwards, he became Professor and later served as the Vice Rector there.
Later he accepted the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture under the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University.
He presented papers at national and international symposiums and conferences, and authored many articles and research papers.
Personal life
Saatçi is married and the father of one child.
Published books
* Mimar Sinan ve Tezkiretü’l-Bünyan, Emlak Bank Publishers, Ä°stanbul, 1989
* The Urban Fabric And Traditional Houses of Kirkuk
* Sinan The Architect (Istanbul, 1987)
* Inscriptions on Architect Sinan’s Buildings (Istanbul, 1988)
* Mimar Sinan and Tezkiretü’l-Bünyan (Istanbul, 1989)
* Houses of Kirkuk (Istanbul, 2003)
* A Miracle Called Sinan-The Ottoman Architect (Istanbul, 2005)
* The Urban Fabric and Traditional Houses of Kirkuk (Istanbul, 2009)
* Sinan AtlasÄ± / The Atlas of Sinan (Istanbul, 2015)

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