Kerim Miskavi's Contact Details

Kerim Miskavi's Company Details

MAS Architecture Studio

İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkey • 9 Employees
Architecture & Planning

MAS is an architecture and design practice based in Istanbul, established in 2018 by Kerim Miskavi. Through an iterative, concept-driven approach, the studio engages in projects of various scales and media ranging from custom-made furniture design to large-scale urban transformations. In its first year, MAS completed two interior design projects, a 700 sqm office and a 400 sqm private residence in Istanbul along with a masterplan for a 240-unit residential complex in Mersin, Turkey. MAS is currently developing an administration building in Basra, Iraq and a 17.000 sqm mixed-use building in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The studio constructed an installation titled "Barjeel" for Dubai Design Week, inspired by the traditional wind towers of the Gulf, that will show in November 2019.Kerim Miskavi is the design lead of MAS. Kerim received his education from Rice University in Houston, and gained over 5 years of professional experience at award-winning international architecture offices such as SO-IL and Mitchell|Giurgola Architects in New York, USA and Herzog & De Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. Kerim's work as a part of SO-IL has been exhibited in the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015), Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Triennale (2015) and published by the New York Times (2015). In 2019, Derya Tezel joined MAS as Managing Director. Derya earned her professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from Illinois Institute of Technology. She gained international experience at JAHN and Perkins+Will in Chicago before returning to Turkey to join Tabanlıoğlu Architects in 2010 where she led many international and large-scale projects for 9 years.MAS is dedicated to achieving solutions that make a difference through its experience in operating across geographical boundaries, open communication with clients and teamwork as well as a rigorous design process.