ONUR EKMEKCI Address: City Form Lab, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 8 Somapah Rd, Singapore 487372 Tel: +65 84548837 Email: onur624@gmail.com Website: onurekmekci.portfoliobox.me EDUCATION KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design. Thesis: Neo-Liberal Urbanization in the case of Istanbul and ways of contesting it Dr. Catharina Gabrielsson (Distinction) Bauhaus Kolleg X, Cities of Tomorrow CIAM Urbanism Post Graduate Studies Thesis: Infrastructure Revisited in Functional City: Queenstown, Singapore Dr. Regina Bittner The City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) Cum Laude Stockholm, Sweden, 2012 Dessau, Germany, 2009 New York, US, 2008 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY City Form Lab, at SUTD, established in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Researcher Project Manager for Surabaya Urban Development Program: Integrating Transit Oriented Development into the Surabaya Land Use and Zoning Plan (Commissioned by the City of Surabaya and the World Bank Project Manager for Surabaya MRT Corridor Concept Plan, prepared for World Bank and the City of Surabaya, in collaboration with Hansen Partnership Australia Singapore, 2012- Project Manager for Samples of Urban Fabric Study: Conducting empirical studies of the economic effects of density in two Singapore neighborhoods: Bugis and Punggol Capturing Urban Intensity Study Exhibited City Form Lab at the 2012 World Cities Summit in Singapore Curated City Form Lab s entry at Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013 Project Manager for the Rail Corridor Study
Project Manager for Commercial Diversity in Cities study The Perfect Grid Study Co-organized and facilitated two urban planning workshops in Indonesia, in collaboration with World Bank and the cities of Surabaya and Denpasar Tsao & McKown Architects Junior Architect Lumiere Residences, Taipei, Taiwan (Worked on construction documents, Interior Design, 3D modeling, participated in design development, Qingdao Agora, Qingdao, China (Worked on Preliminary 3D modeling, Construction documents Regent Galleria, Taipei, Taiwan (Worked on preliminary design, construction documents, Worked on firm s portfolio layouts. New York, US, 2009-2010 Curtis+Ginsberg Architects Intern The Cook Street Multi-Family Residential Project, New York City (Worked on construction documents, 3D modeling, participated in design development, The Fortune Society Multi-Family Residential Project, New York City (Worked on Preliminary 3D modeling, Schematic Design) The Navy Green Mixed-Use (Worked on Preliminary design) Arkitera Architecture Center, Istanbul Freelance Writer Translated articles from English to Turkish, writing critiques on urbanism, architecture related topics New York, US, 2007-2009 2009 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES / RESEARCH Berlage Institute Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture, Master class Workshop Radicalizing the local: Post Bubble Urban Strategies led by Teddy Cruz Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin,TFH (Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin), ars-berlin Summer Academy of Architecture The Urban Getaway - Ein Refugium in der Stadt Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009 Berlin, Germany, 2007
AWARDS / EXHIBITIONS 2014 Victorian Landscape Architecture Awards, organized by Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), Urban Design Award for the Surabaya Urban Corridor Development Program Hansen Partnership in collaboration with City Form Lab (SUTD) for The World Bank & The City Government of Surabaya City Form Lab and ETH Future Cities Lab s joint exhibition Urban Design Research at Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore Headquarters City Form Lab s Forms of Access Exhibition, Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013 Project Lulea Harbour City: Living on the Edge selected to be exhibited at NUDA Summit 2012 Urban Design Exhibition, Norway Project Skarpnack+ selected to be exhibited at Blind Spot (Blinda Flacken) Arkitektur Stockholm, Kulturhuset, Stockholm Cities of Tomorrow: CIAM Urbanism Exhibition, at Bauhaus Stiftung. Dessau, Germany Project Accord: Berlin selected to be exhibited at The Urban Gateway Exhibition at Internationalen Handelszentrum Berlin Art in Exhibit Exhibition, Compton-Goethals Gallery Australia, November 21st 2014 Singapore, Fall 2014 Tallinn, Estonia, Fall 2013 Rogalandskunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway, August 2012 Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011 Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau, Germany June 2009 Berlin, Germany June 2007 New York, US August 2002/August 2003 SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Invited presenter (with travel grant) at Claiming the City: Civil Society Mobilization by the Urban Poor Conference organized by Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, in Uppsala University, Sweden. Awarded the travel grant. Contesting Neo-Liberal Urbanism in Istanbul: The case of Taksim Square and beyond, April 2013 Invited presenter at Urban Affairs Association Annual 44 TH Conference in San Francisco, US. Capturing Urban Intensity, April 2013 Invited speaker at Archifest public lecture series on Reinventing Urban Design Research, Singapore October 2012. Presenter at the 18 th International Conference of the Association of Computer aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Singapore, Capturing Urban Intensity, May 2013
Invited Lecturer at Summer Studio/Nis, Serbia, De-Politicized Public Space: Reflections on Taksim Square, July 2012 Invited Lecturer at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Neoliberal Urbanization in the case of Istanbul: Spatial Manifestations and ways of Contesting, May 2012 PUBLICATIONS Ekmekci, Onur, Sevtsuk, A., Integration of Kampungs in Surabaya, Indonesia, Working paper, abstract accepted for presentation at 2014 Great Asian Streets Symposium at National University of Singapore Sevtsuk, A., Kalvo, R., Ekmekci, O., "The Perfect Grid", Working Paper, presented at the UN Habitat Future of Places Conference in Buenos Aires, September 2014 Ekmekci, Onur, Periphery of Singapore, Archeology of the Periphery, Strelka Institute Moscow Books, 2013 Ekmekci, Onur, Too Big to Fail, Archeology of the Periphery, Strelka Institute Moscow Books, 2013 Ekmekci, Onur, Contesting Neo- Liberal urbanism in Istanbul: The case of Taksim Square and Beyond, Claiming the City: Civil Society Mobilization by the Urban Poor (2013), Editors Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin, Uppsala: Uppsala University shorter version can be retrieved at: http://www.csduppsala.uu.se/2013/the- taksim- square- and- urban- resistance- in- istanbul/ Ekmekci, Onur, 2013, June 13th, When Urban Planning Gets Political: The History of Taksim Square, ArchDaily, can be retrieved from http://www.archdaily.com/388271/when- urban- planning- gets- political- the- history- of- taksim- square/ (Editor s choice) Ekmekci, Onur, Spring 2013, Beyond the Metropolis: The Case of Istanbul, Studio Magazine Issue #4 Transformation, pg:100-105 Ekmekci, Onur, November 2012, Towards a Neo- liberalized Istanbul, MONU Magazine #17 Next Urbanism, pg:92-99 Ekmekci, Onur, 2012. Neoliberal Urbanization in the case of Istanbul: Spatial Manifestations and ways of contesting it, Master Thesis, KTH Publication DiVA, can be accessed from http://kth.diva- portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:567654 (Received distinction) Ekmekci, Onur, 2011, Post- political Society and Redefining Architect s role, selected to be included in a forthcoming book by Architects Association 1927, Ankara, Turkey Ekmekci, Onur, Aydilek, Emre, 2011, Ecological Urbanism: A new Urbanism paradigm? Reflections on the Elements of Urbanism, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
Bambooklet ( Including the Roof Machine project, which was developed with M. Iman Ansari) Harvard Graduate School Of Design publication Do: Design opportunity Ekmekci, Onur, 2009, A Retrospective look at Bauhaus at its 90th birthday (in Turkish), Arkitera Architecture Center, http://v3.arkitera.com/h45418- modern- mimarligin- tapinagi- 90- yasinda.html Ekmekci, Onur, 2007, AIAS members convene in Boston for new year, eoculus*, http://www.aiany.org/eoculus/2007/2007-01- 09.html Ekmekci, Onur, 2007, Students Converge for Day in the Field,*eOculus, http://www.aiany.org/eoculus/newsletter/?p=158 Ekmekci, Onur, 2006, Sweden Outranks most in Sustainability, eoculus*, http://www.aiany.org/eoculus/2006/2006-11- 15.html Ekmekci, Onur, 2006, Homes mirror lifestyles, eoculus*, http://www.aiany.org/eoculus/2006/2006-12- 06.html *eoculus is the official online newsletter of American Institute of Architects New York Chapter