Architect. He was born in Istanbul in
1958. He graduated from Saint Michel High School (1976) and then from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture (1982). Between 1982 and
1983 he worked in Paris in the architectural studios of Vidal and Gülgönen and
of Bernstein, Champetier, Vidal. He did his post graduate with a theses called Tarihsel Koruma ve Yakın Yıllarda
İstanbul’daki Uygulama Örnekleri in 1988 at Istanbul Technical University.
His professional career began in 1984. He established the firm "Mimarlar Tasarım ve
Danışmanlık Hizmetleri AŞ" in 1986. He was a member of Archiprix Turkey
jury in 1996. He began to administer a project office at Yıldız Technical
University in 1996 and at Uludağ University in 1998. After 1992 he has been a
member of guest jury in various universities and he gave lectures in many
cities like Damascus and Zagreb. In 2005 he administered a project office at
Graduate School Design, Harvard for a semester. He attended many joint projects
with famous architects like Rem Koolhas, Herzog & DeMeuron.
He won the
Project Award of the National Architecture Awards with Çatalhöyük Müze ve Ziyaretçi Merkezi in 2000, and the 9th
Term Ağa Han Architecture Award with B2
Evi he designed for Selman Bilal and Süha Bilal, the owners of Bilsar
Tekstil in 2004. A monograph of his recent work was published as a book called Recent
Works by
Harvard University Press in 2006.
