Mustafa Pultar
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| Born |
March 1, 1940 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Residence | Istanbul |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Robert College |
| Employer | Bilkent University |
| Spouse(s) | Gönül Ayda Pultar |
| Children | Giray Pultar, Eren Pultar, Selçuk Pultar |
| Parent(s) | Yakup Pultar, Leyla Kıpçak Pultar |
| Website | www |
Mustafa Pultar is a Turkish academic who is a scholar of building science. He did graduate studies at Princeton University, then taught at Middle East Technical University (METU), and later at Bilkent University where he still teaches one graduate course each semester. A former director of the Building Research Institute of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), he was also the founding director of Bilkent University Preparatory School (BUPS). In recent years, he also wrote on the sea.
He was born in Istanbul on March 1, 1940 as the second child of Yakup Pultar (1897–1988) and Leyla Kıpçak Pultar (1902–1995), and attended Robert College, graduating as a civil engineer in 1960. He then went to the USA, to Princeton University where, under the supervision of David P. Billington, he obtained two master's degrees, Master of Sciences in Engineering and Master of Arts, and a Ph.D (in 1965).
He spent another year at Princeton as instructor then returned to Turkey. Pultar's relationship with Billington continued: they co-wrote an article based on a report they had penned together while Pultar was still at Princeton; and Pultar translated Billington's Thin Shell Concrete Structures (1965) into Turkish.
On his return to Turkey, Pultar taught first at METU, at the Department of Architecture, during the pre-YÖK golden years of both the department and of METU in the 1960s and 1970s, and, along with his colleague (and under-classmate from Robert College) Mete Turan, introduced novelty to the teaching of architecture (in the instruction of structural systems) in Turkey.
During his years at METU he was appointed associate dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Vice-President of the university, and twice elected Dean of the said Faculty. Pultar's contributions during this period consist of, among others, the launching of the bilingual METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture; the establishment of a doctoral program in the Department of Architecture at METU; the foundation in 1979 of the department of Industrial Design which has been conducting a joint master's program with Delft University since 2008; and of the department Building Science and Environmental Design; the foundation of the Society for Building Science and Environmental Design; and his initiating the publication of the Faculty's newsletter. Bülent Özgüç, today a professor of computer science, reminisces how he was initiated to the subject of computer-aided design in the early 1970s from his then young instructor Mustafa Pultar, who was at the time one of the rare experts of computer-aided design in Turkey.
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