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Ersan ilktan

Ersan ilktan

New York, NY, US

 
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About 

Ersan worked full-time as an Architectural Designer at KPF’s New York office for 1 year 4 months. Ersan studied Master of Architecture at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in New York and got awarded the AIA Medal for Academic Excellence by graduating top-ranked student. He graduated class of 2020 at TED University, Bachelor of Architecture as top-ranked student among the Faculty of Architecture + Design. Ersan worked full-time during the summer of 2022 as the Governors Island Research Graduate Assistant to the Pratt SoA Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Chair David Erdman + Jing Liu. Ersan has been a recipient of the Thom Mayne Young Architects Teaching Fellowship. He was previously educated in the International Bachelorette (IB) Program with High-Level Physics & High-Level Mathematics at TED Ankara College. Pratt SoA selected Ersan to study at the Architectural Association Visiting School New York with a full scholarship; while still working to organize the AA VSNY on Governors Island during the summer of 2021 when he was working as the Graduate Gallery Assistant at the Pratt SoA Public Gallery Residency on GI, NY. His Bachelor of Architecture Thesis Project was in the 2021 Archiprix International Biennale Competition representing TED University. Ersan further studied topics relating to his undergraduate thesis - first instructed by his professors, Berin Gür (TED University + Visiting Scholar at Cornell University), Heves Beseli, and Duygu Tuntas on “Architectures of Assemblages” - in Pratt SoA with theory courses taught by Sanford Kwinter, Manuel DeLanda & Gokhan Kodalak.  With his partner Nikolas Shamrell, Ersan won the 2022 Pratt SoA Designer-Maker Model Making First Prize. Their Integrated Studio Project, “Fractured Navy Yard Assemblage,” instructed by Fabian Llonch, had industry-leading Mechanical, M.E.P, and Structural Engineers as consultant instructors. Ersan edited Inprocess 26 Book with Prisilia Suwuh & Pratt SoA Archives. Ersan is a retired professional ballroom dancer, dancing since the age of 9, for seven years, in global competitions by WDSF and national championships in Turkey. With the Exchange Program at TED Ankara College, Ersan lived in Canada during 10th grade. With the Erasmus+ Program at TED University, Ersan lived in Krakow, Poland; studied at the Politechnika Krakowska; during his third-year undergraduate spring 2019 project. The Jury Award from the Yaktas Competition in Istanbul, in Jan 2020, in the form of a Europe Research Travel Scholarship, was converted to support his move to New York one year later.

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Employment 

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), New York, NY, US, Architectural Designer

- Worked on high-rise commercial office towers merged with mixed-use podium architecture. Tower 1 (from 30 %DD to 100%DD) & Podium (Addendum 100%DD) Dongguan, China
- 2nd place in the CIMC Global HQ Tower Competition Shenzhen, China
- Contributed to the core planning & conceptual design of high-rise towers and residential buildings, spanning three NY blocks, integrated with a new civic train station New York, NY
- Designed interior visualizations of modelling options for an office lobby entry in Construction Administration phase. Hudson Yards, New York
- Designed options for the tower-podium relationship of high-rise residential & hotel towers integrated with hotel podium project in Construction Documentation phase Residences in Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, FL

Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
 

Education 

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US, MArch, Architecture

Top of class - AIA Medal for Academic Excellence

Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
 

TED University, Ankara, BArch, Architecture

Top of class
Secondary field - Global Citizenship
3rd year 2nd semester Exchange Program to Krakow, Poland (Politechnika Krakowska)

Sep 2016 - May 2020
 

TED Ankara Collage, Ankara, High School, Architecture

IB International Baccalaureate Program - High Level Physics, High Level Math
10th Grade Exchange Program to Vancouver, Canada (Chilliwack GW Graham School)

Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
 

Awards 

AIA Medal for Academic Excellence, 1st Place

Awarded to the top graduating students

2023
 

Pratt SoA Designer-Maker Model Maker, 1st Place

Nikolas Shamrell - Partner
Fabian Llonch - Professor

2022
 

AA Visiting School NY - Merit Scholarship, Scholarship

Full scholarship by Pratt Institute

2021
 

Yaktas Competition Special Jury Award, Award

Europe Research Travel Scholarship - Converted to support move to New York

2020
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills