NEMESTUDIO (en-US)

NEMESTUDIO is an award-winning, globally recognized architectural practice based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The practice has received numerous accolades, most recently Architectural Record's prestigious Design Vanguard award, the Architectural League New York Prize for Young Architects, seven separate citations from The Architects' Newspaper's annual Best of Design Awards, multiple citations from the annual Core 77 Design Awards, the Best of Year Honoree Award from Interior Design magazine, multiple ACSA Faculty Design Awards for exceptional work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor, and multiple Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards. The work of the practice has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Betts Project gallery in London, Aedes Gallery in Berlin, the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, The Cooper Union, Druker Design Gallery at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Architecture, the Chicago Architecture Center, Istanbul Design Biennial, Parsons New School of Design Gallery in New York, Bauer Wurster Gallery in Berkeley, and SALT in Istanbul, among other venues.

Neyran Turan

Neyran Turan is an architect and a founding partner at NEMESTUDIO. She is currently a Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University School of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. Her most recent book, Architecture as Measure (ACTAR Publishers, 2020), has been awarded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Turan was recognized with the ACSA Creative Achievement Award in 2025. She has been the chief curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.

Mete Sönmez

Mete Sönmez is an architect and a founding partner at NEMESTUDIO. Mete holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. He has taught design studios and acted as a guest critic at the University of California-Berkeley, Harvard University, Rice University, Istanbul Technical University, Boston Architecture College, and the University of Houston.