Tümertekin Architects

Han Tümertekin runs Atelier Han Tümertekin, established in Strasbourg, alongside Han Tümertekin Design and Consultancy offices in Istanbul. Trained at Istanbul Technical University, with a background in historic preservation at Istanbul University, he has taught architecture since 1992 and has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, EPFL and the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris.

His B2 House in Ayvacık won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004 and was later registered as cultural heritage by the Turkish Ministry of Culture; in 2021 he was the first architect from Turkey invited to the main exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, with Side by Side. Adaptive reuse runs through the work, from the Maiden’s Tower and Casa Botter to SALT Galata and the Rami Library.