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Han Tumertekin

Istanbul, Turkey
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Han Tumertekin is a practicing architect based in Istanbul and principal of Mimarlar Tasarim Danismanlik Ltd., a firm he established in 1986. He previously worked as an architect in Paris. His work includes residential, commercial and institutional projects primarily in Turkey, as well as in the Netherlands, Japan, United Kingdom, France, China, Mongolia and Kenya. Tumertekin was trained in architecture at Istanbul Technical University and completed graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Istanbul. In addition to his built work, he has been teaching architecture since 1992 at universities including Harvard University's Graduate School of Design; Istanbul Technical University; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Paris; Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul; Uludag University, Bursa; and the Ecole d'Architecture in Strasbourg. He is one of the founders of the graduate programme in architecture at Bilgi University, Istanbul.

Tumertekin's works have been widely published in international architectural journals, including Domus, Abitare, AV, Oris, Architectural Review, L'architecture d'Aujourd'hui, the World Atlas of Contemporary Architecture, and the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. A monograph of his work was published by Harvard University Press in 2006.

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Istanbul, Turkey
bostjan, October 6th, 2014
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