Zuhal Kol

Zuhal Kol is an architect and urban designer whose work is focused on the intersection of politics, infrastructure and new urban environments. She is the co-founder of Openact Architecture, a design studio examining indeterminacy and plurality through varying scale public space competitions and ongoing projects, with registered offices in Madrid and Istanbul. She received her Masters of Architecture + Urban Design from Cornell AAP in 2013 and her B.Arch from Istanbul Technical University with High Honors. During her studies in Cornell AAP were she was a member of the research group “The Petropolis of Tomorrow’” and practiced as a teaching assistant, her research work was exhibited in the Lisbon Triennale, “The world in our eyes” in 2016. Zuhal has given lectures, review critics and workshops including Cornell University, Istanbul Technical University, Europan Forum, and various design festivals. She has participated in various national, international and invited architectural competitions, and won numerous awards including the most recent of Bandirma Park International Competition (TR) and Europan 13 Zagreb “Swap on the river” (HR) which currently are both under the process of implementation. Her work as a designer is complemented by a body of writing and research which concentrates on indeterminate and contingent design relationships between public realm, infrastructure, and ecology; and has been published and exhibited in international books, journals & venues.