Arman Akdoğan

Arman Akdoğan

Founder of IND [Inter.National.Design] in 2007 . He studied architecture at Mimar Sinan University of fine Arts (Istanbul). In 2002 he received his master of Architecture diploma from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He graduated with his thesis topic about the effects of migration with commercial activities on cities .

After his master studies he worked three years at West 8 and OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), both located in Rotterdam. He was guest Curator for the Turkish pavilion at the Mare Nostrum section of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2005. In 2007 He has won several international and national competitions starting with Ceuta 187 social housing units. That momentum established IND [Inter.National.Design]. In 2014, His IND team succeeded to win the Internation competiton Canakkale Antenna Tower which ended up in construction to be finalized in 2020.

Akdoğan is a co-author of the book Research for Research concerning the architecture works of Bruno Taut edited by Bart Lootsma.

He is the designer of “Kavuşma Durağı” an exhibition and performance pavillion at Taxim square which attracted public attention on use of public space.