The Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice (TSMD) was founded in 1987, in Ankara. Five years after its founding, it was decided that architects from İstanbul would also be invited to participate.
Around the time when the number of İstanbulite architects reached twenty, the idea for a branch in İstanbul was put forward. Besides the problems in regards to participating meetings in Ankara and the physical difficulties, the diversity of pressing matters to focus on about İstanbul was among the main factors that brought this need to light. Thus, İstanbulSMD was founded in İstanbul as a branch of TSMD in 1998.
At the Routine General Assembly convened in 2002, it was decided to proceed independently instead of becoming a branch. Thus, İstanbulSMD was officially established as an independent association in June 2002. Currently, the association continues its work in its office in Gümüşsuyu, İstanbul.
BOARDS
Board of Founders
M.Cumhur Umut İnan, Rauf Doğan Tekeli, Hayri Haydar Karabey, Cafer Bozkurt, F. Ahmet Günay Çilingiroğlu, H. Levent Aksüt, Aytaç Manço, Ersen Gürsel, Mustafa Sinan Genim, Yaşar Marulyalı, Ziya Canbazoğlu, Ayşe Hasol Erktin, İhsan Murat Tabanlıoğlu, Doğan Hasol, Yavuz Selim Sepin, Cengiz Bektaş, İbrahim Yalçın İleri, Mehmet Konuralp, Bünyamin Derman, Emre Arolat, Mehmet Neşet Arolat, Şaziment Arolat, Nevzat Sayın
11th Executive Board
Ali Hızıroğlu (Chairman), Sevilay Uğur Çekim (Vice Chairman), Burak Pekoğlu, Görkem Volkan, Kurtul Erkmen, Ertuğ Uçar, Burak Ünder
10th Executive Board
Durmuş Dilekci (Chairman), Ali Hızıroğlu, Hasan Sıtkı Gümüşsoy, Görkem Volkan, Deniz Aslan, Burak Ünder, Burak Pekoğlu
9th Executive Board
Sibel Dalokay Bozer, Umut İyigün, Sibel Dalokay Bozer, Durmuş Dilekci, Hakan Demirel, Abbas Hacıömeroğlu, Ziya Canbazoğlu, Emin Balkış
8th Executive Board
Hakkı Moltay , Umut İyigün, Sibel Dalokay Bozer, Durmuş Dilekci, Hakan Demirel, Abbas Hacıömeroğlu, Ziya Canbazoğlu
7th Executive Board
Ertun Hızıroğlu, Brigitte Weber, Umut İyigün, Sibel Dalokay Bozer, Yalçın Türkdoğan, Cem Sorguç, Alişan Çırakoğlu
6th Executive Board
Ersen Gürsel, Kerem Erginoğlu, Başkan, Ayşe Hasol Erktin, Cem Sorguç, Yalçın Türkdoğan, Aydan Volkan, Yavuz Selim Sepin
5th Executive Board
Oğuz Öztuzcu, Kerem Erginoğlu, Ayhan Ertuğrul, Mutlu Çilingiroğlu, Ayşe Hasol Erktin
4th Executive Board
Doğan Hasol, Oğuz Öztuzcu, Timur Kayserilioğlu, Mutlu Çilingiroğlu, Cemal Emden
3rd Executive Board
Doğan Tekeli, Neşet Arolat, Oğuz Öztuzcu, Timur Kayserilioğlu, Gürhan Bakırküre
2nd Executive Board
Cafer Bozkurt, Ersen Gürsel, Nevzat Sayın (Hakkı Moltay), Hasan Çalışlar, Cem İlhan
1st Executive Board
Umut İnan, Sinan Genim, Haydar Karabey, Emre Arolat, Bünyamin Derman
Interim Executive Board
Levent Aksüt (Chairman), Umut İnan, Aytaç Manço, Emre Arolat, Bünyamin Derman