“Hybrid Authenticity” | Steidl Lecture

Ferda Kolatan - Founding Director of SU11 Architecture + Design and Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design

Ferda Kolatan is a founding director of SU11 Architecture + Design and an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. He received his Architectural Diploma from the RWTH Aachen and his MS. in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. SU11 is an internationally acclaimed practice based in New York City and dedicated to the conceptual and material exploration at the intersection between contemporary culture, technology, and design. SU11’s work has been exhibited at such renowned venues as MoMA, FRAC Center, Walker Art Center, Vitra Design Museum, Art Basel, Artists Space NY and participated in the Venice, Beijing, and Istanbul Biennales. Ferda Kolatan has taught, lectured, and written extensively about architecture. In 2010 he co-authored the book “Meander: Variegating Architecture” and in 2016 his Penn Research-Studio on Cairo received the inaugural 2017 ARCHITECT Magazine Studio Prize. In 2011 Ferda was selected as a Young Society Leader by the American-Turkish Society in New York for his achievements as an educator and designer.