Murat Soygeniş, FAIA RIBA delivered a presentation titled ‘Inspired by Challenges in Architecture’ as part of the series of events in University at Buffalo’s UB Alumni Virtual Hour. The presentation included an introduction to the challenges Turkey and the Mediterranean Region face and showed how some of these challenges turned into inspirations for some architectural projects. A few of the social responsibility projects introduced in this presentation were inspired by the challenges and looked for an answer for creating better living environments. Some of the presented projects had their own challenges.