Doğan Kuban

Doğan Kuban studied at Istanbul Technical University. The recorded working language is Turkish, French and English. The field of work recorded is history of architecture. Employment is recorded with Istanbul Technical University. Distinctions recorded are Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards.

Kuban was born in Paris. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Shortly thereafter he started his academic career. In the 1960s and 1970s he spent time as a research fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library with a scholarship from Harvard University. He became a professor in 1965, and he retired recently. Among his other work, he aided Professor Cecil L. Striker, of the University of Pennsylvania, in his scholarly restoration of the Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul. Kuban's urban history of Istanbul—one of the more complete diachronic histories of the city—is available in English as Istanbul: An Urban History. Byzantion, Constantinopolis, Istanbul (Istanbul, 1996). He died on 22 September 2021 at the age of 95.