Hasan Gumussoy – Sarajevo Green Design Bienale

		Lecture: Critical thinking 18:00h Day two, Friday 09 October

Hasan Sıtkı Gümüşsoy (Istanbul, 1984), founded ABOUTBLANK ARCHITECTURE in 2005 together with Erhan Vural, Ozan Özdilek and Gökhan Kodalak. He received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from YTU(Yıldız Technical University) in Istanbul. He has designed a series of award winning projects at various scales ranging from masterplans, highrise residential, hotel and office buildings to furniture design. ABOUTBLANK’s co-operative approach lead the office on the global platform to collaborate with several international partners, including MVRDV, AECOM, 3PLUS1 and Martha Schwartz Partners. Alongside his architectural practice, he is running an MArch Architecture Design Studio at ITU (Istanbul Technical University) . He lectured in prestigious national/international platforms such as Skopje Architecture Week, ITU, YTU, SALT and Bilgi University. He participated at several exhibitions/biennales like II. International Architecture Biennale in Antalya with the subject of Open Source Architecture : The Cube. His ongoing design research in national/international competitions and built projects has been strongly influenced by the impact of urbanism on built environment. ABOUTBLANK is an innovative inter-disciplinary architecture office founded by Ozan Özdilek, Hasan Sıtkı Gümüssoy, Erhan Vural and Gökhan Kodalak, and practices architecture and urban planning since 2005. The works of ABOUTBLANK, ranging from exhibitions and stand designs to the scale of buildings, urban masterplans, and idea competitions, have been granted many national and international awards. And, as a team that emphasizes collective production, ABOUTBLANK has collaborated with several national and international partners, including but not limited to MVRDV, AECOM, 3PLUS1 and Martha Schwartz Partners. Projects of ABOUTBLANK and articles of founding partners were published in reputable national and international magazines such as Footprint, Architektur Aktuell, A10 and Arredamento Architecture Magazine. Co-founders of ABOUTBLANK attended to numerous of seminars as lecturers, participated in workshop as coordinators and in juries as members at prestigious international and national institutions such as Cornell University, New York Institute of Technology, Skopje Architecture Week, Tirana Epoka University, International Antalya Architecture Biennial, SALT, TAK, İTÜ, ODTÜ, YTÜ, KOÜ, AGÜ, Bilgi University, Mardin Artuklu University.		Lecture on Critical thinking Productions of ABOUTBLANK emphasize a rigorous hybridity which simultaneously puts forth analytical and pragmatic frameworks, while inventing new capabilities through flexible and creative system manipulations. Thus, ABOUTBLANK is the name given to a virtual plane, that actualizes the organization of different inputs of a variety of socio-spatial vertexes in a process-driven design setup, so as to produce fresh lines of flight within architectural and urban milieus, backed by nuanced political, cultural, and economic analyses.