DoÃÂan Kuban (10 April 1926 â 22 September 2021) was a Turkish architectural historian.
Kuban was born in Paris.
He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Shortly thereafter he started his academic career. In the 1960s and 1970s he spent time as a research fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library with a scholarship from Harvard University. He became a professor in 1965, and he retired recently. Among his other work, he aided Professor Cecil L. Striker, of the University of Pennsylvania, in his scholarly restoration of the Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul.
Kuban's urban history of IstanbulâÂÂone of the more complete diachronic histories of the cityâÂÂis available in English as Istanbul: An Urban History. Byzantion, Constantinopolis, Istanbul (Istanbul, 1996). He died on 22 September 2021 at the age of 95.