Burak Pak's research and professional interest areas are digital design and education, design computing, generative design, design technologies and virtual environments.
After two years of professional architectural practice 2000-2002, he was employed by Istanbul Technical University as a design consultant and research associate. He contributed to various international and local conferences about design computing and information technologies as a member of the organization and reviewing committee. As an adjunct lecturer in ITU Faculty of Architecture, he actively involved in design studios and visualization courses.
He attended to architectural competitions and worked freelance for architectural offices like Kisho Kurokawa, Doğan Tekeli - Sami Sisa.
Burak Pak was employed as a member of the founding committee and lecturer in the ITU Information Technologies in Design Graduate Program for five years.
He continued his research for 12 months as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Texas A & M University VIZlab and later, in Carnegie Mellon University, Computational Design Lab.
Burak Pak has completed his PhD thesis in Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. He was co-advised by Professor Arzu Erdem (ITU) and Professor Ömer Akın (Carnegie Mellon University). His thesis involved a comparison of "Design Activities and Decisions in Conventional and Computer Aided Architectural Design Processes".
In January 2009, he received a three-year research grant from the Brussels Regional Government to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in KU Leuven (University), LUCA / Sint-Lucas School of Architecture on a research project about design and evaluation of experimental virtual environments that support decision making (cordis.europa.eu Link of the Research Program).
He has been teaching in Sint-Lucas School of Architecture Research Training Sessions (for PhD students) with Professor Ömer Akın since 2008 (more info: http://designcognition.info).
Leuven University / LUCA, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Bruxelles, BE, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TR, Researcher, Tutor and Design Consultant
Adjunct tutor (Founding Member) Istanbul Technical University Informatics Institute, Information Technologies in Design Graduate Program and Faculty of Architecture
Design and New Media Consultant:
Istanbul Technical University Rectorate
Proje Mimarlik Ltd, Istanbul, TR, Architect
Proje Limited Architectural Company, Istanbul
Freelancer: Kisho Kurokawa Architects ( in charge of Proje Architecture Ltd )
Sint-Lucas, Bruxelles, BE, Architecture
Post Doctoral Study, “A Virtual Environment Model for the Analysis and Evaluation of Alternative Urban Development Projects for the Brussels Capital Region”
promoted by Prof. Dr. Johan Verbeke
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TR / Taksim, PhD, Architecture (with a Focus on Computer Aided Architectural Design)
Co-advised by Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture (Prof. Dr. A. Erdem), TR
Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture (Prof. Dr. O. Akin), Pittsburgh PA, USA
Title: “Design Activities and Decisions in Conventional and Computer Aided Architectural Design Processes”
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TR, MArch, Architectural Design Computing
Faculty of Architecture (Prof. Dr. A. Erdem), TR
“A Design Model at the Intersection of Virtual Environments and Architecture”
INNOVIRIS- Brussels Capital Region Prospective Research Project Type B Senior Post-doc Researcher Grant, Grant
“A Virtual Environment Model for Analysis and Evaluation of Alternative Urban Development Projects for the Brussels Region”
International Exchange PhD Researcher Grant, Istanbul Technical University, Grant
Honorable Mention -Urban Design, Honorable Mention
Izmit Intersection Node Urban Design Competition, Organized by Municipality of Izmit, Turkey, September 2004
(with İpek Yürekli, Arda İnceoglu, Deniz Aslan, Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktas)
