NEW YORK – April 13, 2018 – On April 18, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) School of Architecture will feature Emre Arolat: Scent of the Trace, as part of RPI’s Spring 2018 Lecture Series. Arolat, an internationally renowned architect, will discuss his approach to architecture as well as give insight into prominent current and past projects. The lecture will be held at 6 PM at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York.
Emre Arolat
Arolat was born into a family of prominent Turkish architects. He joined his parents’ firm after graduating from Istanbul’s Mimar Sinan University. In 2004, he founded EAA – Emre Arolat Architecture with Gonca Pasolar. Today, the firm has offices in London and New York in addition to Istanbul. Its projects have received international recognition, including selected work with the Mies Van der Rohe Award and as winner with the Aga Khan Award. Arolat has lectured at design schools around the world. He was the Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture in 2017. In 2012, he co-curated the first Istanbul Design Biennale. His work has been widely published and exhibited, including at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012 and 2016.
Based in Troy, New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the oldest technological research university in the United States, focused on producing socially-conscious graduates with the highest level of technical skill. The Architecture school, headed by the Dean and Professor Evan Douglis, prides itself on equipping graduates with a progressive, insightful, and creative approach to architecture that leaves them equipped to seamlessly take on any career challenge.
About EAA – Emre Arolat Architecture
Founded by Emre Arolat and Gonca Pasolar in 2004, EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture focuses on a wide range of work including urban master plans, airports, residential and cultural buildings, and workplaces. EAA, with a long family tradition, has become one of the largest architectural offices in Turkey, and has expanded to offices in London and New York. Emre Arolat Architecture believes in fully exploring and researching the socio-political context of all projects, and is committed to executing thoroughly researched work in exquisite detail. He has lectured and taught at design schools around the world, and was recently named Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Emre Arolat also held a professorship at the International Academy of Architecture. The firm’s work has been published in Emre Arolat Architects: Context and Plurality, a monograph published by Rizzoli and edited by Philip Jodidio and Suha Ozkan.
EAA’s projects have been displayed in many notable institutions, such as the Design Museum and Royal Academy of Arts in London, at RIBA, and at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2012 and 2016. The firm’s work has received international recognition, including selected work with the Mies van der Rohe Award and the Aga Khan Award. For more information about EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, please visit www.emrearolat.com.
