Open guest lecture by Selva Gürdoğan and Gregers Tang Thomsen, presenting their research into conditions for architecture and urbanism in contemporary Istanbul. Gürdoğan is Direcor of Columbia GSAPP's Studio-X Istanbul and, together with Tang Thomsen, founder of the architecture practice Superpool.

SELVA GÜRDOĞAN
received a B Arch (2003) from the Southern California Institute for Architecture. She has worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and New York on such projects as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Beijing Books Building, and Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas. In 2006, she founded Superpool, an architecture practice, in Istanbul together with Gregers Tang Thomsen. She has led the design of Open City: Istanbul and Becoming Istanbul exhibitions, Park for Audi Urban Future Award 2012, and Superpool’s entry for Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms in Expanding Megacities exhibition at MoMA (2014). As of November 2013 she is also the Director of Studio-X Istanbul, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation global network of urban laboratories.

GREGERS TANG THOMSEN
received an MA (2003) from the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. In 2006, after four years at the Office forMetropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and New York, he relocated to Istanbul to establish Superpool together with Selva Gürdoğan. During his employment at OMA, he worked on Cordoba Congress Center, Beijing Books Building, and Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas. At Superpool, he has been in charge of many projects, including the Open Library (2006), Dragos Residential Towers (2008), and the exhibition designs for the UAE National Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennial and 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial (2014). He has led the EU FP7 funded TailorCrete research project from 2009 to 2013.

EUROPE ENDLESS
The event is the second part of the series 'Europe Endless', hosted by Björn Ehrlemark, which invites practitioners active in the field of architecture and city-making to present the specific condition of the city they work in. Through the series as a whole, the idea is to give an impression of today's "European City" – in all its ambiguities, contraditions and dynamics. The series started off with Massimo Santanicchia and his talk Reykjavik Endless.

Introduction by Björn Ehrlemark
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