Zelal Zülfiye Rahmanali is an architect and researcher who focuses on cities, governance, and urban transformation strategies. She studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and undertook her postgraduate degree at ITU on the architectural design MS program with a thesis on “informal architectures” entitled “Emergence of the subject: Dialogues between architecture and the user.” Currently she is a PhD candidate at Yıldız Technical University on the architectural history and theory program, where she is researching the subject of “Architecture as a dispositif: economy, politics and architecture” and focuses on urban transformations driven by liberal and neoliberal policies and the relationship between urbanism and economic crisis. In 2005 she founded her own architectural office and was placed in several architectural design- and construction project competitions relating to educational campuses. She received first prize in the Turkish Ministry of National Education’s (MEB) Malatya Fırıncı Educational Campus competition. Since 2010, she has worked in and taught design studios and architectural history classes at Maltepe University’s Department of Architecture in Istanbul.