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Ilhan Zeybekoglu

Ilhan Zeybekoglu

Cambridge, MA, US

 

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Employment 

Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Cambridge, MA, US, President / Founding Principal

Ilhan Zeybekoglu, a founding Principal of ZNA/ Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Inc., has over forty years of U.S and international design experience. His early commissions for Harvard Business School campus, followed by projects in California, New York, and London led to his expanded international activity providing client services from his offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.

His work with significant national and international architectural and urban design projects has earned many awards, among them first prizes in several International Design Competitions. Among them, the World Headquarters Complex of the Islamic Development Bank, the American University in Cairo, and the King Khalid University in Abha, SA. Throughout the years, he has served as Principal of Archiplan, Inc. and BDC/Boston Design Collaborative, Inc.

Mr. Zeybekoglu has received his Masters Degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and held senior design faculty positions at Harvard, Columbia and Rice Universities.

Mr. Zeybekoglu has served as Principal-in-Charge and Director of Design for numerous master planning and architecturally significant projects, and his work evidences an abiding concern for and attention to the project’s physical and cultural context. His involvement with each client engages their participation and enhances their sense of ownership in the design solution.

Oct 1986 - current
 

Education 

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US, MArch, Graduate School of Design

Sep 1968 - Jun 1969
 

Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgard, Germany, BArch, Department of Architecture

Sep 1960 - Jun 1965
 

Awards 

Boston Society of Architects, Award

Campus Planning Award
American University Master Plan
Abu Dhabi, UAE

2006
 

Boston Society of Architects, Award

Campus Planning Award
Sarajevo University Master Plan
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina

2004
 

International Design Competition, 1st Place

Campus Planning Award
King Khalid University Master Plan
Abha, Saudi Arabia

2003
 

International Design Competition, 1st Place

Campus Planning Award
American University Master Plan
Cairo, Egypt

1999
 

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