About Us
Espaces Architects is an architectural design studio based in Istanbul. Our work is diverse and recognized worldwide through international design awards. Our range of projects -from houses, exhibition stands to hotels, visitor centers, factory buildings- are all unique and dedicated for the needs of our clients.
ELİF GÜNGÖR
M. Arch // Founder
Elif Güngör is an architect, designer and educator. She was born in Istanbul in 1987. She is graduated from Bahcesehir University at 2011. She did exchange programs between Mukogawa University (2009) and Universita Degli Studi Di Genova (2010) during her bachelor.
She holds a Master in Advanced Architecture from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - IAAC (2013). Her research interests during the master related to the self-sufficient architecture.
IAAC is an international centre for fabrication, research and education. It is a platform to research in constructing 21st century habitability and a space to imagine, test and shape the future of cities, architecture and technology. IAAC with the Fab Lab Barcelona, has the most advanced digital production laboratory in Southern Europe. She experienced there the way of thinking in digital and producing by computational design.
She worked in several offices as proffesional in Turkey as a Project Architect developing projects in both architectural and interior scale. She has collobrated as a project manager at Rad-inc studio in New Delhi and had opportunity to work in different scales as conceptual design process, execution projects and construction phases.
Since 2017, she is the founder of Espaces Architects and part time lecturer.
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