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Neyran Turan is an Associate Professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a partner at NEMESTUDIO, an architectural office that has been recognized with several awards, most recently the 2016 Architectural League New York Prize for Young Architects, seven separate citations from The Architects' Newspaper Best of Design Awards, Best of Year Honoree Award from Interior Design Magazine, multiple citations at the ACSA Faculty Design Award for outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor, the Core 77 Design Awards, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards. NEMESTUDIO's work, ranging from installations to buildings and landscapes, has been widely published and exhibited internationally at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Storefront Art and Architecture Gallery, Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Betts Project gallery in London, The Cooper Union in New York, Aedes Architecture Forum Gallery in Berlin, Chicago Architecture Center, SALT, and the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial "Are We Human," and many other venues. Turan's work focuses on alternative forms of planetary imagination within architecture and urbanism and their capacity to prompt new aesthetic and political trajectories for the design disciplines. Turan is the founding chief editor of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design journal New Geographies and editor-in-chief of the journal's first two volumes. Turan's authored book titled Architecture as Measure, which has been awarded by the Graham Foundation, was published by ACTAR Publishers in 2020. Turan recently curated the Pavilion of Turkey at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.