Geospaces is an extended visual essay of ideas, images, drawings and projects that follows the work of Alper Derinbogaz over the past decade, framing an approach to architecture based on empathy with earth.
Architectural history is a fragment of the long evolution of forms of habitat. The shape of the lands and the way we inhabit them are at the root of all architectural endeavours. However, our established conception of architecture is based on a hierarchy between nature and culture. To move towards an architecture more in tune with earth, we need to think in continuities, looking at the emergence of natural forms, the history of human inhabitation and the future of fabrication technologies. What if we see buildings as iterations of nature rather than artificial objects?
Exploring architecture through the lens of evolution, Geospaces traces relationships between topography, geology, genetics, ecologies, and construction technologies, arguing that a hybrid approach to making will shape our future habitats.
With Contributions of:Bahar Turkay, Di lek OEzturk, Blaine Brownell, Edipcan Yildiz, Enise Burcu Derinbogaz, Furkan Temir, Laura Pedata, Loris Rossi, Nicola Cherubini, Rana Irmak Aksoy, Simona Finessi, Sinan Logie
Show moreGeospaces is an extended visual essay of ideas, images, drawings and projects that follows the work of Alper Derinbogaz over the past decade, framing an approach to architecture based on empathy with earth.
Architectural history is a fragment of the long evolution of forms of habitat. The shape of the lands and the way we inhabit them are at the root of all architectural endeavours. However, our established conception of architecture is based on a hierarchy between nature and culture. To move towards an architecture more in tune with earth, we need to think in continuities, looking at the emergence of natural forms, the history of human inhabitation and the future of fabrication technologies. What if we see buildings as iterations of nature rather than artificial objects?
Exploring architecture through the lens of evolution, Geospaces traces relationships between topography, geology, genetics, ecologies, and construction technologies, arguing that a hybrid approach to making will shape our future habitats.
With Contributions of:Bahar Turkay, Di lek OEzturk, Blaine Brownell, Edipcan Yildiz, Enise Burcu Derinbogaz, Furkan Temir, Laura Pedata, Loris Rossi, Nicola Cherubini, Rana Irmak Aksoy, Simona Finessi, Sinan Logie
Show moreAlper Derinbogaz is an architect and academic seeking communal
relationships between environment and spatial elements through
scientific strategies. His experiments vary from installations to
large-scale cultural institutions, including the new Istanbul City
Museum nearing compilation. He is the founder of architectural
practice Salon.
He received the Fulbright grant to study at UCLA, where he won the
Graduate Award for his studies. His research has been exhibited in
biennales and museums including the first Istanbul Design Biennale.
He exhibited at the Koolhaas-curated Venice Architecture Biennale
in 2014 with his work Modalities of the Spontaneous (MS), an
in-depth study of urbanisation in relationship with geography. His
projects have won awards in international competitions from Songdo
Library to Kaunas Science Island. Hewas selected as one of the 40
top young architects in Europe in 2019, and in Archdaily's Best
Young Practices in 2020. He has been gathering his research under
the umbrella of 'Geospaces' since 2011.
At a time when architecture is increasingly becoming an instrument
of the economy, Alper Derinbogaz's design approach is to stubbornly
focus on its fundamental role: to mediate between the man-made and
the natural environment."
--Reinier de Graaf, OMA Partner
"Geospaces brings together a significant body of work providing
relevant reflections on an architecture that exists within the
fragile nexus of environmental histories, technologies and future
terra-formations."
--Marcelyn Gow, Design Faculty at SCI-Arc
"Salon, through projects across multiple scales and programs, seeks
to intelligently and performatively resonate with specific sites,
lands, geographies and climates in meaningful manners."
--Kutan Ayata, Vice Chair in UCLA AUD
Geospaces not only interprets new ways of perceiving architecture
outside traditional norms, but also re-configures many layers of
urban fabric through creative thinking and theoretical acumen."
--Refik Anadol, Media Artist & Director at RAS
"As an advocate of harmonious coexistence between humans, nature,
and architecture, I believe Alper's point of views exhibited in
this book will inspire architects and makers around the world.
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--Ma Yansong, Founder & Principal of MAD
"The book refers the constant modification of a space that stages
architecture. We should remember that is not exclusive to the human
species inhabitation is opportunistic dynamic adaptive in the best
of cases among many species. Can architecture as a habitat and
architecture whose facade signals habitation develop material
intelligence in its manifold dimensions economy locality ecological
consciousness to bring multiple scales of existence into human
ethical regard? And Geospaces is a text that asks us to question
these relations at a planetary scale."--Ariane Harrison, Co-Founder
Harrison Atelier; Coordinator at Pratt Institute
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