Erdem Erten graduated METU Department of Architecture in 1994. In 1998 he took his Master of Science degree from the History, Theory, Criticism program at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a research fellow at the Design Knowledge Systems program at Delft Technical University between 1998 and 1999. In 2004 he completed his PhD at History, Theory, Criticism program at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since then he has been assistant professor at Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.