11 June 2010
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Volkan Alkanoglu is an architect and designer whose innovative work and academic contributions have received international recognition. Since entering practice, he has contributed to building and research in the field of architectural design and sustainable projects and received awards and recognition for visionary building designs, master plans, art installations, exhibition and product design and sustainable environments.
Volkan Alkanoglu offers an explicit international background. He was born in Turkey, raised in Germany, and studied architecture at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf and received his Master of Architectural Design degree with Distinction at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. His research and design work has been exhibited at several institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and has been featured in international publications. He has collaborated as a Designer and Architect in several architectural practices in Germany, United Kingdom, and the USA. During his experience as an Project Director and Project Architect, he has worked on many award winning projects with highly acclaimed international status.
He is currenty teaching Graduate and Undergraduate studio and seminar studies as design faculty at SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He has taught previously design studios at the Architectural Association, Harvard, Graduate School of Design, PBSA, Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Düsseldorf, Lund University Sweden, and Princeton, School of Architecture. In addition, Volkan Alkanoglu is frequently invited as Guest Critic to several academic Institutions and has held lectures on his design ideologies worldwide. Volkan Alkanoglu is a registered Architect with the AKNW (Architektenkammer Nordrhein-Westfalen) in Germany, ARB (Architects Registration Board) in the UK and a LEED Accredited Professional (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) in the USA.
Jennifer Bonner established Studio BONNER / Office for Civic Architecture in Los Angeles. Design and research agendas include engagement with resilient landscapes, definitions of civic infrastructure, and the mapping of typological shifts through cultures. She received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University. Her undergraduate thesis project, a cedar pavilion, was designed and constructed at the Rural Studio for the citizens of Perry County, Alabama.
Jennifer Bonner is a Visiting Professor at Woodbury University in Los Angeles. Previously, she has taught design studios and seminars at Georgia Institute of Technology, Auburn University, and the Architectural Association.
She has received numerous awards such as an AR Award for Emerging Architecture in 2005 and the James Templeton Kelley Prize in 2009 awarded to the best final project at Harvard GSD. Her design and research projects have been widely published in Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Wallpaper*, a+t, DAMn, Art Papers, and GSD Platform. Her work from the Rural Studio has been exhibited at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, Architekturzentrum Wein in Austria, College of Architects in Barcelona, and the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.
Miss Bonner’s professional experience includes work in the offices of Foster+Partners and David Chipperfield Architects. While at Foster+Partners she resided in Istanbul, Turkey to coordinate the construction of the Palace of Peace, a cultural building in Kazakhstan.
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