Essay
Further Towards a New Architecture
As jury chair for offices at the 2022 World Architecture Festival in Lisbon, I saw reuse take the centre, and demolition hold its ground in Türkiye.
Pritzker Prize
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Essay
Casa da Música: The Trouble with Being Clever
Rem Koolhaas’s Casa da Música in Porto, a guided tour with my young son, and the uneasy feeling that even provocation may now be a little “cringe”.
Essay
Remembering Richard Rogers
The architectural world has lost one of its great figures, Richard Rogers.
Interview
ODE Select/Architects' Meetings 'Current' Banu Uçak, Alev Akın, Görkem Volkan
The Ode Select meetings, moderated by the architect Banu Uçak, hosted Alev Akın, founding partner of İŞTE Proje Yönetimi, and Görkem Volkan, founder…
Interview
Han Tümertekin, 17 March 2021
At Mimarşiv Selection I spoke with Han Tümertekin on why the architect has no luxury of pessimism, after the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Essay
Reporting from the Front, or Not
At the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Darzana, the Türkiye Pavilion, was a hybrid ship that answered the theme once I stood in front of it.