Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008 > Ferda Kolatan

Ferda Kolatan is a co-founder of su11 architecture+design in New York City. He was the recipient of the Honor Award for Excellence in Design and the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Price from Columbia University. His firm received the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for ‘Best New Designer’ in 2001. In 2006 su11 was a finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov Price and in 2007 they were chosen finalists for the MoMA/PS1 YAP competition. His work has been published nationally and internationally including Archilab’s Futurehouse, Space, Monitor, L’Arca, Arch+, New New York, PreFAb Modern, Digital Real, The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, AD, Dwell, Le Monde, NY Times, LA Times and Washington Post and exhibited in venues such as the Walker Art Center, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Vitra Design Museum, Archilab Orleans, Documenta X, Art Basel and Carnegie Museum of Art. Ferda Kolatan is currently a Full-Time Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Adjuct Professor at Pratt Institute in New York. He also is a Senior Researcher for the NSO (Nonlinear Systems Organization) headed by Cecil Balmond at Penn Design.