Kerem Erginoğlu

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