ABSTRACT
This chapter restores the threads that connect Middle East Technical University (METU) to postwar operations in housing, planning, and development while also examining the processes through which these threads were hidden and lost within the shifting political contexts of the Cold War in the Middle East. It shows how battles of legitimacy fought among various professional and bureaucratic cultures shaped not only METU's later identity as the product of one group or another, but also its initial conceptualization as a postwar university and campus. Therefore, this analysis provides a framework that suggests for the first time continuity instead of a sharp break between the early and later identities of the school. The chapter analyzes how the competing agents sought to define and spatialize the connections between architecture, planning, and development in the organization of postwar university, while also reformulating their own aims and identities to maintain professional legitimacy within the shifting political contexts of this period.
