Hello! My name is Ekin and I’m a 28 year old architect, who likes to do puzzles and design/construct furniture in my free time. My professional and academic work has focused on research-based design proposals. My explorative investigations vary from discovering local knowledge through community engagement workshops (arki-lab) to empirical research into the past and projected future of socio-economically and environmentally depleted territories (Lagoon Co-operative). Nevertheless my work hopes to reveal the invisible layers of underlying disconnections and inequities, in order to advocate for new ways of living, working and communicating with each other and our ever-transient environment. I hope to position myself within the contemporary interdisciplinary system, inspired by the conscious response of creative thinkers such as Eyal Weizman, Olivia Laing, Renzo Taddei, Rebecca Solnit, Geisa Garibaldi and many others.
ekinarin@gmail.com
+ 31 0634294832
US Citizen
< Eligible to work in the Netherlands >
education
Master of Science in Architecture
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, June 2022
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
University of Virginia School of Architecture,
Charlottesville, VA, 2013 - 2017
Matura
Sankt Georg Austrian High School,
Istanbul, Turkey, 2008 - 2013
awards
Design Excellence Award
UVA School of Architecture Class of 2017
work experience
Architect at arki_lab
Copenhagen, Denmark | Feb 2018 - Sept 2020
Architecture Intern at arki_lab
Copenhagen, Denmark | Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Design Intern at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Washington D.C., USA | June - Aug 2017
Architecture Intern at Emre Arolat Architects
Istanbul, Turkey | August 2016
Architecture Intern at Alterra International
Dallas, TX, USA | May - July 2016
Architecture Intern at HAS Architects
Istanbul, Turkey | June 2015
Architecture Intern at Erginoglu Calislar Architects
Istanbul, Turkey | June 2014
involvements
Student Assistant at TU Delft. Feb 2021 - July 22.
Complex Projects: MSc1 Design Studio, City of Innovations Electives
with Yagiz Soylev, Yang Zhang, Manuela Triggianese
Complex Projects: MSc1 Design Studio, City of Innovations Electives
with Yagiz Soylev, Yang Zhang, Manuela Triggianese
Assistant Instructor at DIS Copenhagen. Spring 2019.
Urban Design Studio
with Rasmus Frisk
Urban Design Studio
with Rasmus Frisk
Workshop participant at “Yapi Unplugged”. May 2018.
Repurposing construction materials for school furniture
with Architecture for All and Assemble
Repurposing construction materials for school furniture
with Architecture for All and Assemble
Volunteer at Trampoline House. 2018 - 19. Copenhagen.
Organizing activities and events for refugee families. I particularly worked with young women and did some graphics work for them
Organizing activities and events for refugee families. I particularly worked with young women and did some graphics work for them
Design Futures Public Interest Design Forum. May 2017.
5 day interdisciplinary design conference/forum, where we tested different approaches to participatory design
University of Minnesota College of Design
5 day interdisciplinary design conference/forum, where we tested different approaches to participatory design
University of Minnesota College of Design
Friendship Court Project. Spring 2017. Charlottesville, VA.
Designing “quick wins” to encourage ownership with youth leaders
with Barbara B. Wilson
Designing “quick wins” to encourage ownership with youth leaders
with Barbara B. Wilson
Freedom By Design. 2015 - 17. Charlottesville, VA.
Designing and building different local projects that focus on improving spatial conditions for people with less resources.
Designing and building different local projects that focus on improving spatial conditions for people with less resources.
Graphic Design and Branding Chair for TEDx UVA
Teaching Assistant at University of Virginia. Fall 2015.
ARCH 1040 Intro to Design
with Carmen Trudell
ARCH 1040 Intro to Design
with Carmen Trudell
TU Delft Planning & Design with Water Conference
Delft, Netherlands | July 2018
skills
Rhinoceros, Revit
AutoCad
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
After Effects, Premiere
Grasshopper on Rhino
CSS
Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Pages, Keynote