Sunday, August 30, 2009

GAD Architecture


Global Architectural Development is an Istanbul and New York based company, which performs architectural practice, research and concept design since 1994 and whose partners are Gokhan Avcioglu and Ozlem Ercil Avcioglu and their global collaborators.

Contemporary and current architecture, urbanism, software, consumer habits and behaviors and approaching to the projects holistically are among its field of interest. GAD understands architecture as a practice that relies on the experiment, values historical precedents and new ways to combine both in a mutually benefiting fashion.

GAD Architecture is committed to finding innovative approaches to architecture and creating new spatial experiences with projects and ideas. GAD has offices in Istanbul and New York.

GAD has won numerous awards including the 1997 Turkish Architecture Prize for the design of a Public Park in Istanbul and the 2001 Cimsa Design Prize for outdoor seating, a bronze medal in Miami Biennale for Borusan Exhibition Center in 2003. The Public park in 1998 and in 2004 and Esma Sultan Venue place in 2001 was short listed for Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

The firm’s projects have been exhibited at numerous venues internationally, at the Galerist gallery in Istanbul and Minima Art in Philadelphia, USA in 2002, at Miami Biennale in December 2003, in Architectural Museum in Rotterdam, in 2004 and in 2005 in Royal Academy of Art in London.

GAD’s projects have been published widely in international press, books and on TV. For further details about them please go to publications.

GAD has offices in Istanbul and New York.


Website:http://gadarchitecture.com/?page_id=130
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