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39-596: It was built from 1938 to 1941, after the design of Paul Bonatz and the planning of Fritz Leonhardt , for the Autobahn Cologne - Aachen . Today the Bundesautobahn 4 is the southern wing of the Cologne Beltway . On 14 January 1945 an airstrike destroyed the bridge. It was rebuilt from 1952 to 1954, with the old pylons re-used. The old bridge had 6100 tons of steel and the new bridge has only 3350. Because of

78-555: A bridge in Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paul Bonatz Paul Bonatz (6 December 1877 – 20 December 1956) was a German architect, member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the technical university in that city during part of World War II, and from 1954 until his death. He worked in many styles, but most often in a simplified neo-Romanesque , and designed important public buildings both in

117-568: A hipped-roof town hall. Bonatz's most famous building in Stuttgart is the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (main station), built 1913–1927. On 25 November 2009 the station complex was nominated by UNESCO for possible inclusion in their World Cultural Heritage list. Bonatz also designed the library building of the University of Tübingen (built 1910–1912) and was involved in the final stages of

156-445: A suburban campus like Maslak has created the opportunity of building many sports areas. Ayazağa Gymnasium is the center of sports in ITU. Ayazağa Gymnasium also has a stadium with a seating capacity of 3500 for basketball and volleyball matches. A fitness center is also located there. Basketball matches are among the most important sports activities in ITU. The ITU basketball Team, which won

195-432: Is a conference where students participate as United Nations delegates. Participants research and formulate political positions based on the actual policies of the countries they represent. ITU dormitories have a capacity of 3,000 students. They include Lakeside Housings, IMKB Dormitory, Verda Urundul, Ayazaga Dormitory and Gumussuyu dormitory. Additional dormitories are planned. Radio ITU (or Technical University Radio )

234-689: Is a suburban campus, covering a total area of 1.600.000 m². The University Rectorate, swimming pool, stadium, along with most of the faculties, student residence halls and the central library of ITU are located there. Another suburban campus of ITU is the Tuzla Campus. It serves the Maritime Faculty students and faculty members. It is located in the Tuzla district of Istanbul , which is a dockyard area. The three urban campuses are near to one another and are situated close to Taksim Square . Taşkışla campus

273-586: Is accredited by NAAB and the Faculty of Maritime is accredited by IMO . Minimum score of 72 from TOEFL IBT, or success in the English proficiency exam is one of the prerequisites to register the Bachelor, Master, or Doctorate level courses at ITU. Instruction is both in English and Turkish (roughly 30% and 70%, respectively or 100% in English for some disciplines). Master and Doctorate courses are mostly held in English. ITU

312-512: Is an public technical university located in Istanbul , Turkey . It is the world's third-oldest technical university dedicated to engineering and natural sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey. İTÜ is ranked 95th worldwide (1st nationwide) in the field of "Engineering & Technology", and 275th worldwide (2nd nationwide) in

351-652: Is currently the first and only campus that hosts the ITU-TRNC Education and Research Campuses faculty. ITU's nuclear reactor of Triga Mark-2 is in the Maslak campus. It is located at the Energy Institute. Since the foundation in 2003 Arı Technopolis , which is located at the Ayazağa Campus, provides companies with research, technology development and production opportunities at the university, in cooperation with

390-589: Is highly reputable institution in the area of engineering sciences within the Europe. Therefore, the university provides a broad range of options, that involve highly reputable institutions, to its students for the Erasmus Mobility. Istanbul Technical University is consistently featured as one of the highest-ranked universities in Turkey. In the QS World University Rankings 2023, ITU is ranked within

429-1112: Is opened in May 2007, are also available in the Ayazaga Campus. An open-air swimming pool serves the ITU faculties. ITU's American football team ITU Hornets has won the Unilig (Turkish University Sports Leagues) Super League of American football in the 2013-2014 season and in 2014-2015 season. Other sports clubs/activities in ITU are: Badminton, ultimate, fencing, diving, winter sports, dancing and gymnastics, tennis, paintball, aikido, athletics, mountaineering, bridge, swimming, cycling and triathlon, skiing, parachuting, korfball, handball, iaido, capoeira, wrestling, archery, ultimate frisbee and sailing. ITU offers many options to students who like doing extra-curricular work during their studying years. The most popular ones are Rock Club, Cinema Club, Model United Nations, EPGIK, International Engineering Club. Also ITU has an option for those who like to organise events and socialise with people from various European countries in

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468-630: Is the first university radio station in Turkey . Radio ITU is located in the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering building on Maslak campus . ITU Stadium is one of the most popular locations in Istanbul for concerts and such those performances. For instance, Metallica (in 2014), Justin Timberlake (in 2014), and Roger Waters (in 2013) gave concerts at the ITU stadium. Lady Gaga also performed at

507-613: Is the personification of engineering and architectural education in Turkey. Istanbul Technical University not only played a leading role in the modernization movement of the Ottoman Empire , but has also maintained its leadership position in the changes and innovations taking place in the construction, industrialization, and technological realms during the modern days of the Turkish Republic. Engineers and architects trained at Istanbul Technical University have played significant roles in

546-447: Is where the Faculty of Architecture is located. The Taşkışla building is one of the most renowned historical buildings in Istanbul. It dates backs to the Ottoman era and was used as military barracks . Gümuşsuyu (Mechanical Engineering Faculty) and Maçka (Management Faculty) campuses are also among the important historical buildings of Istanbul. The Famagusta campus at Northern Cyprus

585-648: The Nazi party , and had actually briefly belonged to the SPD . After building several major buildings during the Weimar Republic , notably the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (main station, 1913–1927), after the Nazis came to power he became architectural expert and advisor to Fritz Todt , the general inspector for German road building, and in this position built major bridges for the new Reichsautobahn system and with Hermann Giesler worked on

624-584: The Neckar at Heidelberg in 1927. For the autobahns, he oversaw all bridge design and himself designed many of the innumerable small bridges required. In the 1920s he was responsible for ten dams on the Neckar; he used different construction materials to reflect the local geology. Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul ( Turkish : İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi , commonly referred to as İTÜ ),

663-677: The Nizam-ı Cedid reforms, as the Imperial School of Naval Engineering ( Mühendishâne-i Bahrî-i Hümâyun ), in the Kasımpaşa quarter on the Golden Horn , originally dedicated to train ship builders and cartographers for the Ottoman Navy . In 1795 the Imperial School of Military Engineering ( Ottoman Turkish : Mühendishâne-i Berrî-i Hümâyun ) was established in the nearby Hasköy quarter on

702-693: The Turkish Basketball League Championship five times, currently plays in the Turkish Basketball League's Second Division (TB2L). Ayazağa Gymnasium is the home of the ITU Basketball Team. Despite the successes in basketball, the football team of ITU plays in the amateur league. A football stadium is also located in Ayazağa, where the football team plays its matches. Tennis courts and an indoor Olympic swimming pool, which

741-574: The Weimar Republic and under the Third Reich , including major bridges for the new autobahns . In 1943 he designed several buildings in Turkey , returning to Stuttgart in 1954. Bonatz was born in Solgne , Alsace-Lorraine , then German Empire . In 1900, he finished his studies of architecture at the Technical University of Munich . He trained under Theodor Fischer . Like Fischer, he did not join

780-462: The völkisch school's approval of the Stuttgart station as "a modern technical building in the best sense of the word." However, his autobahn bridge across the Rhine at Rodenkirchen (1939–1941) was an ultra-modern suspension bridge , he designed a number of dams and factories in addition to bridges, and at Kornwestheim he coupled a reinforced concrete water tower with offices on the lower floor with

819-522: The Golden Horn, and the scope of the school was broadened to train technical military staff for the modernization of the Ottoman Army . In 1845 the engineering function of the school was further widened with the addition of a program devoted to the training of architects. The scope and name of the school were extended and changed again in 1883, and in 1909 the school became a public engineering school which

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858-651: The Local Board of European Students of Technology Group which had 40 members in 2007. Despite all these, it can still be a little quiet in the campus from time to time because students can choose the city of Istanbul over the campus life. Model United Nations Society of ITU is one of the most active student clubs in the University. Participating in MUN conferences regularly, both domestic and international, MUN society offers an opportunity for personal development. Model United Nations

897-464: The Stuttgart School, which sought modern architectural solutions based on tradition. He thus worked in a number of styles depending on purpose, although he was influenced by Fischer's movement toward a simplified masonry-based style based on German heritage and often used a simplified neo-Romanesque vocabulary, as in his 1927 Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof , his 1936 Kunstmuseum Basel (art museum), and

936-551: The academy of sciences in the United States, Britain and Russia. The university's basketball team, İTÜ BK , is in the Turkish Basketball Super League . Considered as the world's third institution of higher learning specifically dedicated to engineering education, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) has a long and distinguished history. ITU was founded in 1773 by Sultan Mustafa III , as an important institution in

975-473: The architect Kurt Dübbers. His younger brother, Karl Bonatz , was also an architect and was chief planner of (West) Berlin succeeding Hans Scharoun . Bonatz believed passionately in form expressing function, but opposed the modernist tradition exemplified by Neues Bauen and the Bauhaus , which he considered shallow, fashionable, and neglectful of local traditions. He was a founder and an important exponent of

1014-584: The architectural design of the Sofia University Faculty of Biology building in Sofia , Bulgaria. The brick edifice was constructed in 1924–30 and was mostly designed by the Bulgarian architect Georgi Ovcharov , who worked the project out at Bonatz's office in Stuttgart. Among his technical buildings, he built bridges from the start of his career, beginning at Ulm in 1907 and including a slender bridge over

1053-464: The construction of Turkey. Alumni also played a significant role in Turkish politics. The structure of faculties, except the Faculty of Science and Letters, at ITU is comparable to those of "schools" in the U.S. institutions, where each faculty is composed of two or more departments in line with a comprehensive engineering field. For example, the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering consists of

1092-596: The departments of electrical engineering , robotics and autonomous systems engineering , electronics and communication engineering . ITU-TRNC Education and Research Campuses There are several Research Groups in ITU , including: Planned Research Center Projects: Finally, ITU also has the following departments / educational institutes that are not tied to any of the faculties, but serve as independent departments. These include 26 engineering departments of ITU are accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Also ITU's Faculty of Architecture

1131-657: The design for a planned new main station for Munich . The government tried to make good use of Bonatz's talents and name, but found him politically unreliable. He disliked Paul Troost 's renovation of the Königsplatz in Munich and said so, a political mistake. In February 1935 he gave a speech inveighing against architecture which made "the act of representing an end in itself" rather than form coinciding with function in which he called Albert Speer 's New Reich Chancellery "patently inadequate". Because of his vocal opinions, Bonatz

1170-575: The field of "Natural Sciences" by the QS World University Rankings in 2024. The university has 92 undergraduate programs and 188 graduate programs in 14 faculties, 277,160 m of laboratory space, and 12 research centers. Acceptance to the university is competitive, and entrance to most of its departments require scoring among the top 1% of nearly 3 million applicants at the national university entrance examination known as "YKS" every year. Graduates of ITU have received many TUBITAK science and TUBA awards. Numerous graduates have also become members of

1209-436: The increasing traffic on the bridge, in 1990 it was expanded with an equal bridge, sharing the middle cable with the 1954 bridge. The expansion was finished in 1995. 50°53′59″N 6°59′26″E  /  50.89972°N 6.99056°E  / 50.89972; 6.99056 This article about a North Rhine-Westphalian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

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1248-492: The researchers and academicians. The technopolis have two buildings:Arı-1 and Arı-2. Arı-3 building in Maslak and another building in Floria are announced to build. Arı Technopolis has the 49% of export among technopolises in Turkey. NHPCC , is located in the Ayazağa Campus. It is the national center for high performance computing. The super computer of this center was one of the world's top 500 list super computers (240th). Having

1287-484: The stadium on September 16, 2014 to a sold-out crowd of 25,157 people as part of her artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball . Many of the graduates take role in the development of Turkey, with many of them playing significant roles in constructing bridges, roads and buildings. For instance, Emin Halid Onat and Ahmet Orhan Arda are architects of Anıtkabir . Süleyman Demirel (civil engineer) and Turgut Özal (electrical engineer) are

1326-414: The top 150 universities in the subject areas "Engineering - Petroleum", "Engineering - Mineral & Mining", "Engineering - Civil and Structural", "Engineering - Electrical and Electronics", "Engineering - Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing", within the top 250 in "Engineering - Chemical", "Architecture & Built Environment", "Computer Science and Information Systems", "Material Sciences", within

1365-508: The top 300 in "Environmental Sciences", "Mathematics", "Business and Management", "Chemistry", and within the top 450 in "Physics and Astronomy", "Economics and Econometrics. ITU is a public (state) university. It has six campuses, five of which are located in the most important areas of Istanbul and one is located in Famagusta . Among ITU's six campuses, the main campus of Maslak , in Sarıyer ,

1404-682: The university's Taşkışla campus. While in Turkey he built many projects in Ankara , including a residential area with over 400 units and the reconfiguration of the Ankara Exhibition Hall into the Ankara Opera House , before returning to Germany in 1954 to participate in the reconstruction of Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . He was a professor at the University of Stuttgart from 1954 until his death in 1956. In 1902 he married Helene Fröhlich (1879–1965); their daughter Susanne, born in 1906, married

1443-474: The viaducts at the Drackensteiner Hang . The Stuttgart station, which was influential, has been seen as a transformation of historicism: the building itself was modern, the historical decor purely stylistic accents. Like Fischer, Heinrich Tessenow and German Bestelmeyer , he appealed to the Nazis because many of his works bore a clear relationship to traditional styles; Paul Schultze-Naumburg expressed

1482-625: Was aimed at training civil engineers who could provide the infrastructure for the rapidly developing country. By 1928 the institution had gained formal recognition as a university of engineering which provided education in both engineering and architecture. In 1944 the name of the institution was changed to Istanbul Technical University and in 1946 the institution became an autonomous university with architecture , civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering faculties. With its long history of 251 years, its modern teaching environment, and well-qualified teaching staff, Istanbul Technical University today

1521-537: Was investigated twice by the police, who accused him of aiding Jews and being openly critical of Hitler. Although he won the competition to execute the gigantic glass dome for the new main station in Munich, he soon became disenchanted with Hitler's requiring the dome and critical of the entire design. This led him to leave Germany for Turkey in 1943. He was a faculty member at the Istanbul Technical University from 1946 to 1954 and oversaw renovation of

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