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Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Design Center co-founder architect Kerem Erginoğlu, was born in 1966. After graduating from Le Lycée Saint-Joseph, he pursued his education at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Architecure, graduating in 1990. Finishing his graduate studies on ‘New Building Design in Historical Textures’ at the same university, Erginoğlu established Erginoğlu & Çalışlar with his partner Hasan Çalışlar. Carrying out several projects in both Turkey and abroad, Erginoğlu worked on and finalized projects with different typologies such as offices, culture, retail, civic, sports, educational, residential, industrial and master planning, which some of were first in their categories. Erginoğlu & Çalışlar’s pragmatic and aesthetic design approach which also aims to emphasize clients’ corporate identity took attention by different international firms and led to several awards such as ‘The New & Old Award’ for the Salt Repository-Medina Turgul DDB Head Quarters in the World Architecture Festival 2010 and First Prize for the New Power Station in the Iconic Awards 2015. Having articles on several publications, Erginoğlu had jury and guest instructor duties at architecture faculties of Mimar Sinan, İstanbul Technical, Uludağ, Yıldız Technical, Bologna and Minnesota University since 2000. Conducted ‘Vardiya 10’ project at the Venice Architecture Biennial in 2018. Erginoğlu is a member of TMMOB Chamber of Architects of Turkey and ISMD - Association of Architects in Private Practice of İstanbul

Dorin Ștefan Adam is a lecturer architect at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania. He runs the architecture office mânadelucru which is an office which develops its activity mainly in the architecture and design area, working in a reduced collective, based particularly on a certain communication and closeness between the members of the team; this leads to a personal approach, very local and detailed, of each project they are managing, having an increased attention towards the direct necessities of the client and towards an answer, as sincere and correct as possible, for the raised issues, faced in the contemporary architecture and the contemporary social environment.

Evren Başbuğ was born in Ankara in 1981. He graduated from METU (Middle East Technical University) Faculty of Architecture in 2003. He earned a M.Arch degree from İstanbul Bilgi University, Architectural Design Graduate Program in 2009. Throughout his professional career, he has won over 20 awards (including 4 first prizes) in national architectural competitions and multiple various professional awards and commendations from national / international platforms / programmes. In 2018 Evren Başbuğ was awarded the National Architecture Award in the 'Buildings / Public Space' category with Bostanlı Footbridge & Sunset Lounge. Evren Başbuğ has been entitled as the Coordinator of Archiprix Turkey since 2020. Besides his ongoing professional career in İzmir and Ankara within his practice 'Studio Evren Başbuğ Architects Co. Ltd.', Evren Başbuğ is teaching as a part-time studio instructor at TED University Faculty of Architecture and Ankara Medipol University Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture. He is also a member of the Architects’ Professional Committee in the İzmir Chamber of Commerce.

Ayça Taylan Yerce, received her education in architecture at Istanbul Technical University and Politecnico di Milano. She has worked as a project architect and project designer in different award-winning architectural offices in Italy, China and Turkey for ten years. She founded Yerce Architecture Studio with her partner Nail Egemen Yerce, in 2011, where they focuse on multidisciplinary art, design and architectural projects. In 2013, Yerce Architecture's ‘Orfisera’ project was exhibited in East Centric Architecture Triennale in Bucharest, Romania. In 2015 ‘Masura’ project received the ‘Best Exhibition Space’ award in Istanbul Furniture Fair. ‘Studio Loft’, completed in 2016, was elected to the Turkish Architecture Yearbook and became the single Turkish finalist at the 2017 World Architecture Festival, in the ‘Creative Re-Use Category’. In 2018, ‘Empera Headquarters’ was awarded in the ‘Best Office Buildings’ category, in Big See Festival, one of the prominent architectural festivals in Southern Europe. In 2020, 'Courtyard Apartment', has been one of the nineteen projects chosen to be included the Turkish Architecture Yearbook. The office’s well-know ‘The Path’ installation, has been awarded in Dutch Frame Awards 2020 and German Design Award 2021. Besides co-running Yerce Architecture, Ayça Taylan is an invited lecturer and a guest jury member in the architectural studios on different classes, in Mef University, Kadir Has University and Istanbul Technical University.

SEPTEMBER, 20TH, 1985 BORN IN ARAD, ROMANIA 1991-2004 SCHOOL AND HIGHSCHOOL IN ARAD, ROMANIA - MAJOR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2004-2010 B.A. + M.ARCH (ARCH. DIPL.) @ UPT F. OF ARCHITECTURE - TIMISOARA, ROMANIA 2010-2013 APPRENTICE ARCHITECT (JUNIOR ARCHITECT) @ DSBA - BUCHAREST, ROMANIA MARCH, 2013 LICENSED ARCHITECT (ARCHITECT) @ R.O.A. - BUCHAREST, ROMANIA DECEMBER, 2013 OWN PRACTICE - BUCHAREST, ARAD, TIMISOARA, ROMANIA ACHIEVEMENTS: 2018: FIRST PRIZE @ "MIXED-USE", TIMISOARA, TIMIS, ROMANIA 2015: GUEST LECTURER @ UPT F. OF ARCHITECTURE - TIMISOARA, ROMANIA 2015: FIRST PRIZE @ "MULTIFUNCTIONAL PAVILION", PECICA, ARAD, ROMANIA 2014: SPECIAL GUEST @ "LEAF INTERNATIONAL", DUSSELDORF, GERMANY 2014: EXHIBITOR ARCH. @ "ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK", BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 2014: SPEAKER @ "GIS 2014", BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 2012: FIRST PRIZE @ "DIGITAL MUSEUM", PECICA, ARAD, ROMANIA 2011: FIRST PRIZE @ "TAIWAN TOWER", TAICHUNG, TAIWAN

Ertuğ Uçar Ertuğ is running TEGET Office in İstanbul with his partner, Mehmet. TEGET, with its young crew, is a research-based dynamic design practice working on different scales ranging from masterplan to building complexes of many types and to single houses. TEGET won National Architecture Prize of Turkey for three times in 2010, 2014 and 2018 and also co-curated Turkish National Pavillion in Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2016. Ertuğ has two novels and five storybooks published. He likes desserts, lighthouses, long walks in nature and sketching landscape views.