Architecture & Planning - İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
ABOUTBLANK is an innovative inter-disciplinary architecture office founded by Hasan Sıtkı Gümüssoy, Erhan Vural, Ozan Özdilek and Gökhan Kodalak, and practices architecture and urban planning since 2005. The works of ABOUTBLANK, ranging from exhibitions and stand designs to the scale of buildings, urban masterplans, and idea competitions, have been granted many national and international awards. And, as a team that emphasizes collective production, ABOUTBLANK has collaborated with several national and international partners, including but not limited to MVRDV, AECOM, KCAP and Martha Schwartz Partners.Projects of ABOUTBLANK and articles of founding partners were published in reputable national and international magazines such as Footprint, Architektur Aktuell, A10 and Arredamento Architecture Magazine. Co-founders of ABOUTBLANK attended to numerous of seminars as lecturers, participated in workshop as coordinators and in juries as members at prestigious international and national institutions such as Cornell University, New York Institute of Technology, Skopje Architecture Week, Tirana Epoka University, International Antalya Architecture Biennial, SALT, TAK, İTÜ, ODTÜ, YTÜ, KOÜ, AGÜ, Bilgi University, Mardin Artuklu University.Productions of ABOUTBLANK emphasize a rigorous hybridity which simultaneously puts forth analytical and pragmatic frameworks, while inventing new capabilities through flexible and creative system manipulations. Thus, ABOUTBLANK is the name given to a virtual plane, that actualizes the organization of different inputs of a variety of socio-spatial vertexes in a process-driven design setup, so as to produce fresh lines of flight within architectural and urban milieus, backed by nuanced political, cultural, and economic analyses.BRAINBLANK is a division of ABOUTBLANK which is operating on the fields of research, education, networking, cultural theory, exhibitions, publishing and visual communication.
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