Dr. Birge Yıldırım Okta, faculty member of the Department of Architecture, and her team is awarded with the first prize for the Meles River as an Urban and Ecological Spine: National Conceptual Urban Design Competition by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. Her team also included the alumi of the Department of Architecture: Burak Arifoğlu, Akın Ertürk ve Yalçın Demircan.