Aslıhan Demirtaş will be sharing and discussing what she means of deep time and expansive ground with selected works such as Plinth, Graft, Sultanbeyli Kiosk, İkizçam andYürük Yayla Houses as well as Lumbardhi Cinema. Interweaved in this presentation will be the question of why we need expanded practices of architecture and design and why the alternative now needs to become the convention. 

Biography:

Aslıhan Demirtaş is a practicing architect, educator, and co-founder of KHORA, an expanded architectural and design practice grounded in research, art and ecology. Established in New York and based in Istanbul, KHORA is a collaborative, multi-scale and un-disciplined practice and creatively situates architecture and design in their historical and future contexts. Aslıhan is a recipient of Graham Foundation Grant for her research work Graft and has served as a technical evaluator for the 15th Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She currently leads the adaptive reuse of Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren, Kosovo and the artistic research project Sea Snotting Expeditions at SALT, among others. Demirtaş collaborated with Pritzker prize winner I. M. Pei as his lead designer on the Museum of Islamic Arts Qatar and Miho Chapel. She has taught at Parsons School of Design at The New School, Istanbul Bilgi University and lectured at Harvard GSD, MIT, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar among others. She is a member of the Initiative for the Protection of the Historical Yedikule Urban Gardens and an alumna of MIT and METU. 

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