About

Zeynep Igmen is an architect and researcher specializing in sustainable and socially just architectural and urban practices, based in London and Istanbul. Her work engages with cultural discourses, environmental history, territorial conflicts across land- and waterscapes, and their intersections with material and immaterial cultures. She also explores spatial tectonics and hands-on, low-tech making. In parallel, she contributes to the latinization of Ottoman Turkish documents and literature.

The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments 2025

thesis titled “A Practice of Fishing along the Bosphorus: Mapping Dalyans as Sites of Collective Making and Memory”

Uskudar University
MA Sufi Culture and Literature 2025

final project titled “Tawakkul, Vigour, and Building in the Narrative of Prophet Noah”

Istanbul Bilgi University
BArch Architecture (High Honours)

London College of Music
Classical Piano, Grade 8

Curriculum Vitae

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