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Emre Arolat (born 24 June 1963) is a
Turkish
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architect. In 2004, he co-founded EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture with Gonca Paşolar.
He is perhaps best known in Turkey for designing the
Sancaklar Mosque
Sancaklar Mosque is a mosque in Büyükçekmece, Istanbul, Turkey. It was designed by architect Emre Arolat. Finished in 2012, it received the 2015 Religious Building of the Year Award from ArchDaily. In the 2018 BBC series ''Civilisations
A ...
.
Early life
Arolat was born in Ankara in 1963. After completing his primary education at
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...
, he studied at
Mimar Sinan University
The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ( tr, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, or MSGSÜ) is a Turkish public university dedicated to higher education in the fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul ...
in Istanbul where he received his BArch degree in architecture in 1986 and MArch degree in 1992. He then went to work at the Metcalf and Associates Architectural Office in
Washington D.C.
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between 1986 and 1987.
Awards
Arolat has received many national and international awards, including the 2005
Mies van der Rohe award
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Eu ...
for European Architecture (Highly Commended); 2006 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture (Highly Commended); 2013 WAF (
World Architecture Festival
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) Winner of Religious Buildings category with Sancaklar Mosque; 2014 WAF Winner of Shopping Category with Yalikavak Palmarina; Winner of Leisure-Led Category with Antakya Museum Hotel; WAF Winner of Infrastructure Category with Cukurova Airport in 2015 and Winner of Culture Category with Istanbul Antrepo 5 – MSGSU Painting and Sculpture Museum. He also received National Architecture Awards in the category of "Design" and "Building" in 1992, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2014. He has been awarded the
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
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in 2010 with the Ipekyol Textile Factory Building. In 2015
Sancaklar Mosque
Sancaklar Mosque is a mosque in Büyükçekmece, Istanbul, Turkey. It was designed by architect Emre Arolat. Finished in 2012, it received the 2015 Religious Building of the Year Award from ArchDaily. In the 2018 BBC series ''Civilisations
A ...
was awarded
ArchDaily
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's Best Building of the Year and
Mies van der Rohe award
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Eu ...
for European Architecture-Best 40 Building of the Year, also nominated for
Design Museum-Designs of the Year award. In May 2015, the International Academy of Architecture accorded Emre Arolat the title of professor of the academy in recognition of his achievements in the development of contemporary architecture.
Teaching
Since 1998, Emre Arolat has taught in architectural schools in Turkey and abroad, including
Mimar Sinan University
The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ( tr, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, or MSGSÜ) is a Turkish public university dedicated to higher education in the fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul ...
,
Istanbul Bilgi University
Istanbul Bilgi University ( tr, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi), officially established in 1996, is a private university located in Istanbul, Turkey.
The university has 4 campuses centrally-located in Istanbul namely SantralIstanbul, Kuştepe, Do ...
,
Berlage Institute The Berlage Institute was an independent unaccredited postgraduate school of architecture in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that operated in 1990-2012. Named after the Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Berlage Institute had an i ...
for Architecture,
TU Delft
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and
Erciyes University
Erciyes University ( tr, Erciyes Üniversitesi) is a Turkish institute of higher education located in Kayseri, Turkey. As of 4 April 2019, a total of 64,194 students were studying for their bachelor's degree and postgraduate studies.
Background ...
. He was also visiting lecturer at
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...
, the
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The ...
and
Istanbul Technical University
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. He has been invited to serve as a jury member for numerous architectural design competitions in Turkey and abroad, including the WAF (
World Architecture Festival
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is an annual festival and awards ceremony, one of the most prestigious events dedicated to the architecture and development industry. The first four events were held in Barcelona, from 2008 to 2011, at which p ...
), European 8, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Opera House Architectural Design Competition and in 2014 the Çanakkale Antenna Tower International Competition and the CSBE (Center for the Study of the Built Environment) Student Award for Architectural Excellence in Amman. He was the 2017 Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture.
Exhibitions
Arolat was one of two curators of the first Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012. He also curated "Musibet", an exhibition focusing on the social and physical effects of the rapid transformation processes taking place in Istanbul. The EAA curated the exhibitions "Nazaran.../With regard to...” in 2006, "An/Moment" in 2012 and ”Fabrika/The Factory" in 2013.
In 2015 Arolat curated EAA's exhibition, "ist-on situations" at
RIBA
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, London. The exhibition explored a timeline beginning with the mid-19th century showing key events or turning points in the course of the urban stories of London and Istanbul. Through a dual city approach the practice reveals "situations" that unite and differentiate these two cities at the east and west ends of Europe in their development. Along with the visual material and text focusing on the background of the urban situations, a selection of recent projects and those underway by Emre Arolat Architecture (EAA) in Istanbul were showcased as 'agents' of the current urban scene. The exhibition featured original drawings, models, photographs and films of EAA's projects.
Publication
EAA designs have been described in various publications.
"Emre Arolat: Buildings / Projects 1998–2005" is the first monograph by Emre Arolat. It uses thirty projects to explore the studio's architectural approach. The book “
Dalaman Airport
Dalaman Airport is an international airport and one of three serving south-west Turkey, the others being Milas–Bodrum Airport and Antalya Airport. It has two terminals. The old terminal is used for domestic flights and the new terminal is for ...
” explores the experience of producing this large building. EAA was the editor of the books "Nazaran.../With regard to...” and ”Fabrika/The Factory" which was published alongside the exhibitions.
In September 2013, Rizzoli NY published "EAA- Emre Arolat Architects: Context and Plurality", a monograph edited by Philip Jodido and Suha Özkan, covering 34 projects of the office. It was the first Rizzoli book publication for a Turkish architect. The second volume of EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture's monograph with Rizzoli Electa, "Global and Local / New Projects: EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture" was published in 2020. The book highlights thirty-two projects across Turkey, the United Kingdom, Portugal, the United States, UAE, Bahamas, Republic of Tatarstan, Oman and Finland. The book contains multilayered and contextual projects like the award-winning Sancaklar Mosque and the innovative Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, which will historically document and display the largest collection of Turkish art and the Museum Hotel Antakya, in which the hotel floats over archeological artefacts without touching them.
In the same year, another book of EAA was released by ORO Editions with an introduction by
Aaron Betsky
Aaron Betsky, born 1958 in Missoula, Montana, is an American critic on art, architecture and design. He was the director of Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design until early 2022.
Trained as an architect and in the humanities at Yale ...
.
The book is an expose of an architect's inner dialogues during the design process. It reveals a detailed and extensive documentation of the internal struggle to conceptually ground and position three different works of architecture: Sancaklar Mosque, Bergama Cultural Center and Yalikavak Marina.
Books
* Scent of The Trace, Emre Arolat, Oro Editions (2020)
*Global and Local / New Projects: EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, Philip Jodidio-Suha Özkan, Rizzoli Electa (2020)
*EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture / Context And Plurality, Philip Jodidio-Suha Özkan, Rizzoli NY (2013)
* Fabrika, Milli Reasurans A.S. (2012)
* Dalaman, Yem Yayinevi (2007)
* Nazaran, Milli Reasurans A.S. (2006)
* Emre Arolat, Buildings/Projects 1998–2005, Literatür (2005)
Selected projects
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people