The Constructed Environment’s Updates

Neyran Turan – 2020 Plenary Speaker

The Tenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment is pleased to announce Neyran Turan as a 2020 Plenary Speaker.

Neyran Turan is an assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a partner at NEMESTUDIO, an architectural office that has been recognized with several awards, most recently the 2016 Architectural League New York Prize for Young Architects, multiple citations at the 2016, 2017, and 2018 The Architects’ Newspaper Best of Design Awards, a Notable Award at the Core 77 Design Awards 2017, ACSA Faculty Design Award, and multiple Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards. Turan’s work focuses on alternative forms of environmental imagination within architecture and urbanism and their capacity to prompt new aesthetic and political trajectories for the design disciplines. Turan is the founding chief-editor of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design journal New Geographies and was the editor-in-chief of the first two volumes of the journal New Geographies 0 (2008) and New Geographies: After Zero (2009). Turan’s current book titled Architecture as Measure, which has received a Graham Foundation award, is released by ACTAR Publishers in Fall 2019.

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