Alper Aytaç (M.Arch '03): Topography

Alper Aytaç was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree at Ohio State University in 1999 and a Master of Architecture degree at SCI-Arc in 2003. After working with NBBJ and Peter Eisenman in the US, he founded Aytaç Architects in Turkey in 2005. In addition to receiving several international architectural awards including ASLA 2013 with Hebil 157 project, he exhibited in the Venice Bienalle in 2014 after winning the Yenikapi Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park International competiton with Peter Eisenman in 2012. He was selected by Chicago Athenaeum as one of the “40 most talented and promising architects of Europe under the age of 40” in 2014. His Golden Horn Library in Istanbul won the Architizer A+ award in 2021.

Seven projects from furniture to urban design explore the idea of "building as the extension of topography" through movement and pleating.