P R O F I L E : BÜRO SEDA KURT ŞENGÜN

B Ü R O S E D A K U R T Ş E N G Ü N was founded in 2020 as a registered landscape architecture bureau under the UCTEA Chamber of Landscape Architects, Istanbul Branch. The bureau focuses on strategic and aesthetic approaches to landscape architecture, working both on-site and in the bureau. It provides comprehensive project documentation and meets project & construction coordination and consultancy needs related to landscape design and implementation. Operating remotely from Istanbul, the bureau conducts physical meetings and in-situ collaborations across various regions throughout Anatolia, Türkiye. With several awarded projects, in 2025, the bureau's EARTH QUARRY project is exhibited in the Pavilion of Türkiye at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Seda Kurt Şengün is a landscape architect (MSci), working across design and education,
co-founder of PARCH and founder of BÜRO SEDA KURT ŞENGÜN.

She graduated from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2008, and earned her MSc in Architectural Design from the same institution in 2014 with a thesis titled “Landscape of Lost Spaces”, which is on heterotopia, non-place, the third landscape, terrain vague, and photography as an artistic tool. She was a visiting researcher at ENSA Lyon in 2013 and awarded participant for a masterclass at Bauhaus University in 2007. She invited to lectures, reviews by architects and institutes and in 2018, invited as the principal jury of the 10th National Landscape Architecture Professional Awards organized by the Chamber of Landscape Architects, Türkiye. In 2017, she co-founded PARCH, an architectural practice and thought initiative. The practice has won several national awards in Türkiye through competitions initiated by local governments, with projects ranging from 75 hectares to 500 square meters and conducts a workshop programme Park @ PARCH. Her essays have been published by leading architectural publishers in Türkiye. Among them, she was invited to contribute to the book Peyzajı Açmak, published by YEM in 2022. In 2024, she authored the article titled "Peyzaj Mimarlığı: BioPoetik Bir Politika" for Arredamento Mimarlık issue 367, which focused on the theme Landscape Architecture in Türkiye.

For a decade, Seda has contributed to architecture and landscape education as a visiting professor in Türkiye, conducting design studios and interdisciplinary research at institutions. Her academic and professional work often engages with ecologies of architecture, archaeology, geography, and geology—bridging intellectual research with built practice.

VISITING PROFESSOR in PRACTICE at Architecture Schools

ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DIPLOMA 2024 Jury G Member / Visiting Professor in Practice Department of Architecture Diploma Project SPRING Jury Members; Nizam Onur Sönmez, Aslıhan Şenel, Ebru Erbaş Gürler, Seda Kurt Şengün, Pınar Gökbayrak, Bihter Almaç, Gülşah Aykaç, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar

2nd YEAR 2024 Visiting Professor in Practice / Coordinator Landscape Architecture Department Landform & Built Environment Studio: 'Biopoetics Studio' Collaboration w/ Meltem Erdem Kaya, Fatma Sultan Bozkurt

2nd Year 2022 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Faculty Landscape Architecture Studio I Landform & Built Environment: 'Landscape as Strata' Collaboration w/ Meltem Erdem Kaya, Nergis Aşar

ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY

2nd YEAR 2021 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio II, Collaboration w/ Ahmet Korfalı, Elif Kendir Beraha, Ahmet Özgüner, Burcu Kütükçüoğlu, Çağla Akyürek, Ayça Alangoya, İzzet Özkeresteci

2nd YEAR 2020 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio I Collaboration w/ Ahmet Korfalı, Ayça Alangoya, Elif Kendir Beraha, Ahmet Özgüner, Burcu Kütükçüoğlu, Çağla Akyürek, Evren Aysev, İzzet Özkeresteci

FOUNDATION 2020 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Arch. Draw. Studio I Collaboration w/ Bahar Avanoğlu, Bilge Bal

FOUNDATION 2020 Visiting Professor in Practice Interior Design Dep. Design Comm. Studio I Collaboration w/ Bengi Güldoğan

MEF UNIVERSITY

DIPLOMA 2024 Jury Member / Visiting Professor in Practice Department of Architecture Diploma Project Collaboration w/ Tutor Kürşat Özdemir, Jury Members Seda Kurt Şengün, Ahmet Ergelen, Ali Paşaoğlu

DIPLOMA 2020 Jury Member / Visiting Professor in Practice Department of Architecture Diploma Project Collaboration w/ Tutor Ozan Avcı, Jury Members Bahar Avanoğlu, Seda Kurt Şengün

DIPLOMA 2019 Jury Member / Visiting Professor in Practice Department of Architecture Diploma Project Collaboration w/ Tutor Burcu Serdar Köknar, Jury Members Seda Kurt Şengün, Elif Çelik

3rd YEAR 2019 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Elective Course 'Peyzajın Görsel Okur Yazarlığı-Visual Literacy of Landscape'

2nd YEAR 2021 Visiting Professor in Practice FADA Design & Build Studio Collaboration w/ Cansın Yılmaz

FOUNDATION 2024 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio II Collaboration w/ Naz Kaya, Buket Samancı, Zelal Rahmanalı Nottrot, Seçil Yatan, Ece Duran, Derya Uzal, Bahar Avanoğlu

FOUNDATION 2023 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio I Collaboration w/ Eda Yeyman, İrem Korkmaz, Naz Kaya, Buket Samancı, Zelal Rahmanalı Nottrot, Seçil Yatan, Ece Duran

FOUNDATION 2020 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio II SPRING Collaboration w/ Eda Yeyman, Beril Sarısakal, Derya Uzal, Başak Eren, Didem Sağlam, Zelal Rahmanalı Nottrot, Bengi Güldoğan

FOUNDATION 2019 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio I FALL Collaboration w/ Eda Yeyman, Beril Sarısakal, Derya Uzal, Başak Eren, Didem Sağlam, Zelal Rahmanalı Nottrot, Bengi Güldoğan

FOUNDATION 2019 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Dep. Architectural Design Studio II Collaboration w/ Zeynep Aydemir, Avşar Karababa, Derya Uzal, Eda Yeyman, Bengi Güldoğan, Başak Eren, Didem Sağlam

ISTINYE UNIVERSITY

2nd Year 2023 Visiting Professor in Practice Architecture Fac. Interior & Enviromental Design Studio 4 Collaboration w/ Emre Gündoğdu, Lara Karaso, Elif Tan, Çağlar Yılmaz

MEDIPOL UNIVERSITY

2nd Year 2023 Visiting Professor in Practice Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Dep. Studio Landscape Represantation Techniques Collaboration w/ Bahar Başer Kalyoncuoğlu, Ezgi Zehra Kocazeybek

ISTANBUL YENİ YÜZYIL UNIVERSITY

FOUNDATION 2018 Visiting Professor in Practice Arch & Eng. Fac. Basic Design Studio II 'Stüdyo219'
FOUNDATION 2017 Visiting Professor in Practice Arch & Eng. Fac. Basic Design Studio I 'Stüdyo219'
FOUNDATION 2017 Visiting Professor in Practice Arch & Eng. Fac. Basic Design Studio I - II 'Stüdyo219'
FOUNDATION 2017 Visiting Professor in Practice Arch & Eng. Fac. Basic Design Studio II 'Stüdyo219'
FOUNDATION 2016 Visiting Professor in Practice Arch & Eng. Fac. Basic Design Studio I 'Stüdyo219'

FRANCE SCIENTIFIC STAY
SÉJOUR SCIENTIFIQUE EN FRANCE
2013 ENSA LYON Laboratoire d'Analyse des Formes

YAYINLAR
ESSAYS

2025 Yapı 495 Kurt Şengün, S. TAŞ İLE DİKEN İÇİN BİR MÜLK 'Antroposende Mimarlık ve Kentte İklimsel Adalet' Dosyası (Issue: Anthropocene in Architecture and Climate Justice in the City), Ebru Şevli(Ed.). Turkish text as a hardcopy, Sy.39-40 https://www.academia.edu/Taş ile Diken için Bir Mülk

2025 Arredamento Mimarlık 367 Kurt Şengün, S. PEYZAJ MİMARLIĞI : BİOPOETİK BİR POLİTİKA'Türkiye'de Peyzaj Mimarlığı' Dosyası (Issue: Landscape Architecture and Design at Turkey), Sibel Şenyücel (Ed.). Turkish text as a hardcopy, Sy.69-72 https://www.academia.edu/Peyzaj Mimarlığı : BioPoetik Bir Politika

2022 YEM Kurt Şengün, S. YENİ BİR DOĞA DÜŞÜNCESİNDE FOTOĞRAF (Photograph in a New Nature Thought) Book Chapter, 'Peyzajı Açmak', Meltem Erdem Kaya (Ed.), Sy.67-75. https://www.academia.edu/Yeni bir Doğa Düşüncesinde Fotoğraf

2021 Arredamento Mimarlık 344 Kurt Şengün, S. PEYZAJ (LANDSCAPE)'Mimarların Dilindekiler' Dosyası (Issue: Architects' Talk), Burak Altınışık (Ed.). Turkish text as a hardcopy, Sayı 344, Sy.73. https://www.academia.edu/45160330/Peyzaj

2019 IFLA Europe Kurt Şengün, S. PİKİONİS'İN ZİHİN COĞRAFYASI: Mimarlığın Ekolojik ve Kültürel Belleği (Pikionis' Mind Geography: Ecological and Cultural Memory of Architecture). Oral presentation of the article, IFLA Europe 7th International Landscape Architects Congress, Antalya. http://peyzajkongresi.org/2019/program/

2019 BETONART Kurt Şengün, S. PİKİONİS'İN ZİHİN COĞRAFYASI(Pikionis' Mind Geography). Çağdaş Yunan Mimarlığı Dosyası (Issue:Contemporary Greek Architecture), Neslihan Şık (ed.) Turkish text as a hardcopy, Betonart 61 Design and Architecture Magazine, P.72-75. https://www.academia.edu/39835953/Pikionisin_Zihin_Coğrafyası

2019 IFLA World Kurt Şengün, S., Şengün, H. T. AWARDED Luleburgaz Tosbağa Creek Urban Design TREES, GARDENS, BRIDGES AND HIVES: A Module for The Earth. Approved Abstract, IFLA World Congress 2019 Common Ground, Oslo, Norway.

2019 XXI Kurt Şengün, S. BİRLİKTE YAŞAM VE EKOLOJİNİN MİMARLIĞI (Life in Common; The Architecture of Ecology). Ters Köşe Ekoloji Dosyası, Ayşen Ciravoğlu (ed.) Turkish text, XXI Online, Turkey https://xxi.com.tr/i/birlikte-yasam-ekolojinin-mimarligi

2018 EURAU Kurt Şengün, S., Şengün, H. T. Luleburgaz Tosbağa Creek Urban Design 'TREES, GARDENS, BRIDGES AND HIVES: A Module for The Earth. Approved Enlarged Abstract, EURAU Conference Alicante, Spain https://www.academia.edu/38220717/Trees_Gardens_Bridges_Hives

2017 XXI Kurt Şengün, S. YENİ BİR DOĞA DÜŞÜNCESİNDE FOTOĞRAF(Photograph in a New Nature Thought). Peyzajı Açmak Dosyası, Meltem Erdem Kaya (Ed.) Turkish text, XXI Online, Turkey https://xxi.com.tr/i/yeni-bir-doga-dusuncesinde-fotograf

2016 ARKITERA Kurt Şengün, S. SÖKÜM DÖKÜM PEYZAJLAR (Detached and Diffused Landscapes). Turkish Article, Arkitera Online http://www.arkitera.com/gorus/979/sokum---dokum-peyzajlar

2015 ARCH&.LIT Kurt Şengün, S. VISUAL LITERACY OF LOST SPACES THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY. Approved Enlarged Abstract and Presentation, Lisbon Nouva University Faculty of Arts and Humanities International Conference Arch & Lit: Inter-Arts Dialogue(s), Portugal

2015 XXI Kurt Şengün, S. METROPOLDE İNFRASTRÜKTÜRÜN PEYZAJ DEĞERİ (The Value of Landscape Infrastructure in Metropolis). Turkish text, XXI Online https://xxi.com.tr/i/metropolde-infrastrukturun-peyzaj-degeri

2015 BETONART Kurt Şengün, S. GERÇEK GÖLGELER GERÇEK AĞAÇLAR (Real Shades, Real Trees). Peyzaj: Kapsayıcı Dosyası, Burcu Serdar Köknar (ed.) Turkish text as a hardcopy, Betonart 44 Design and Architecture Magazine, P.76-79 https://www.academia.edu/11328233/Gercek_Golgeler_Gercek_Agaclar

2014 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MSc THESIS Kurt Şengün, S. YİTİK ALANIN PEYZAJI (Landscape of Lost Spaces). Turkish Dissertation Book under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Huseyin Kahvecioglu, ITU Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology Architecture School https://polen.itu.edu.tr/handle/11527/14400

ATÖLYELER / SEMİNERLER
WORKSHOP / LECTURES

ESKISEHIR TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Architecture Fac. Urform: Çeşitliliğin Ardındaki Birlik Workshop & Lecture, 2022

IZMIR METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY Basmane Söküm Döküm Peyzajlar - Detached and Diffused Landscapes Workshop & Lecture Broadcast Media Link: Mimarizm, 2016

Istanbul 2nd Design Biennial IKSV Kadıköy Ağaç Rotası - Kadikoy Tree Walk, 2014

SALT GALATA Lostscope w/ Hakan Tüzün Şengün & Ozan Avcı Mimar Oluyorum Atölyeleri / I'm Being an Architect Workshop & Lecture, 2012

KONUŞMALAR SERİSİ
TALKS

2024 ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT Yeni (Eski) Bir Doğa Düşüncesi Alexander von Humboldt seminar with the invitation of IND 302 Lecture Series by Ceren Balkır Övünç, Özen Aksu.

2022 ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT Yeni (Eski) Bir Doğa Düşüncesi Alexander von Humboldt seminar with the invitation of Beginnings Studio by Bilge Bal, Ceren Balkır Övünç, Devrim Çimen.

2021 AURA ISTANBUL Peyzajın Mimarisi seminar with the invitation of Aura Istanbul. https://https://youtu.be/Gja4iNf9MB4

2021 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE FACULTY Nature Debates with Alternative Approaches lecture with the invitation of Dr. Burçin Güngen.

2021 İZMİR YÜKSEK TEKNOLOJİ ENSTİTÜSÜ ARCHITECTURE FACULTY 'Landscape Architecture Practise' Seda Kurt Şengün lecture with the invitation of IZTECH Commons Lab, 18th of March.

2020 BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ ARCHITECTURE FACULTY Faculty Tuesday Seminars 'Landscape and Landscape Architecture' Seda Kurt Şengün lecture with the invitation of the 2nd year Architectural Design Studio coordination.

2020 MEGARON Ekolojinin Mimarlığı talk with the invitation of Architect Sema Uğurlu Canpolat. https://youtu.be/mikkaWrRrwo

2019 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE FACULTY Hall 109 Landscape Architecture Department Young Generation Landscape Architects' Seminars: Seda Kurt Şengün 'Peyzaj Mimarlığı Üzerine' (About Landscape Architecture) at Istanbul

2019 IFLA EUROPE 7th International Landscape Architects Congress'Pikionis'in Zihin Coğrafyası: Mimarlığın Ekolojik ve Kültürel Belleği (Pikionis' Mind Geography: Ecological and Cultural Memory of Architecture) talk at Antalya

2019 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT 'Peyzajın Okunabilirliği' (Landscape readability) lecture with the invitation of the architectural studio by Dr. Burçin Güngen

2019 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT 'Peyzaj, Doğa ve Mimarlığı' (Landscape, Nature and Architecture) lecture with the invitation of the architectural studio by Assoc. Prof.Dr. Aslıhan Şenel

2018 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT Yitik Alanın Peyzajı (Landscape of Lost Spaces) lecture with the invitation of the course by Assoc. Prof.Dr. Huseyin Kahvecioglu

2018 KADİR HAS UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT Soft Ground Between Architecture and Landscape lecture with the invitation of the course by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Didem Kılıçkıran

2017 KADIKÖY MUNICIPALITY TASARIM ATÖLYESİ KADIKÖY Müphemliğin Peyzajı (Landscapes of Uncanny) lecture with the invitation of Atölye Mil under the theme Thursday Researches https://youtu.be/4BpNziYbqyw

2016 İZMİR METROPOLITAN MUNICIPLAITY Söküm - Döküm Peyzajlar (Detached and Diffused Landscapes) lecture by the invitation of Tarih Tasarım Atölyesi under the theme of Çiçek Gibi Tarih Kokan Sokaklar at Izmir, Basmane District

2014 ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT Yitik Alanın Peyzajı (Landscape of Lost Spaces) lecture with the invitation of the course by Assoc. Prof.Dr. Huseyin Kahvecioglu

2014 ARKITERA ARKIMEET Yitik Alanın Peyzajı (Landscape of Lost Spaces) talk with the invitation of ARKITERA at Four Seasons Hotel Bosphorus https://youtu.be/gATHswC0_9o

MİMARLIK OKULLARI ve ENSTİTÜLER JÜRİ DAVETLERİ
INVITED CRITIC to ALL LEVELS at ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS and INSTITUDES

2025 AURA ISTANBUL - Deniz Aslan/Elif Çelik Studio Mid+Final Reviews
2025 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Interior Design Ahmet Sertaç Öztürk Grad. Studio Final Reviews
2025 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Bahar Avanoğlu Studio II Mid Reviews
2024 ITU - Landscape Architecture Meltem Erdem Studio 6 Mid & Final Reviews
2023 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Collective Studio II Final Reviews
2023 ITU - Architectural Design Burçin Güngen Studio 3 Final Reviews
2022 ITU - Architectural Design Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nurbin Paker Studio 7 Mid Reviews
2022 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Derya Uzal Studio I Mid Reviews
2022 KENT UNIVERSITY - Interior Architecture Collective Studio II Final Reviews
2022 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Zelal Rahmanalı Studio I Mid Reviews
2021 AURA ISTANBUL - Büşra Al/Sinan Logie Design Studio Mid+Final Reviews
2021 IYTE - Architectural Design Prof.Dr. İpek Akpınar Studio 3 Final Reviews
2021 ITU - Architectural Design Prof.Dr. Ayşe Şentürer Studio 7 Mid Reviews
2019 ITU - Architectural Design Graduate School Collective Studio I Mid Reviews
2019 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Elif Kendir Studio 3 Mid Reviews
2019 ITU - Architectural Design Nurbin Paker Studio 7 Mid Reviews
2018 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Elif Kendir Studio 4 Final Reviews
2018 KHAS - Architectural Design Birge Yıldırım Studio Mid Reviews
2018 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Burcu Köknar Studio 5 Final Reviews
2018 ITU - Landscape Architecture Graduation Studio Mid-Reviews
2018 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Burcu Köknar Studio 5 Mid Reviews
2018 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Elif Kendir Studio 4 Final Reviews
2018 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Industrial Design Avşar Gürpınar Studio Final Reviews
2018 MEF UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Ozan Avcı Studio 6 Mid Reviews
2018 ITU - Architectural Design Nizam Onur Sönmez Studio 4 Mid Reviews
2018 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Industrial Design Avşar Gürpınar Studio Mid Reviews
2018 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Elif Kendir Studio 3 Final Reviews
2017 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Basic Design Cansu Cansu Cürgen Studio 2 Final Reviews
2017 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Elif Kendir Studio 4 Mid Reviews
2017 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Defne Önen Studio 3 Mid Reviews
2016 KHAS - Urban and Landscape Design Ezgi Tuncer Studio Mid Reviews
2016 BILGI UNIVERSITY - Architectural Design Elif Kendir Studio 4 Final Reviews
2016 ITU - Architectural Design Nurbin Paker Studio 7 Mid Reviews
2016 ITU - Architectural Design Hüseyin Kahveioğlu Studio 4 Mid Reviews

DİSİPLİNLERARASI EĞİTİMLER
INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAININGS

2022 United Nations DP
Applying Ecosystem Restoration Interventions / Ekosistem Restorasyon Müdahalelerinin Uygulanması

2022 United Nations DP
Introduction to Ecosystem Restoration / Ekosistem Restorasyonuna Giriş

2022 ANADOLU UNIVERSITY
Second University Agriculture Technologies (Ongoing) / Tarım Teknolojileri (Devam ediyor.)

2021 ANAMED Environmental Archaeology Program / Çevresel Arkeoloji Programı,
Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Please ask for Credential ID (w/an academic reference)

2021 ANAMED Safeguarding Archological Assets of Turkey / Arkeolojik Varlıkların Korunması ve Kurtarılması,
Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Please ask for Credential ID

2007 BAUHAUS-Universität WEIMAR
Concrete Design Masterclass / Beton Tasarım Uzmanlık Seviyesi, Dessau Berlin ALMANYA - GERMANY (Yarışma Ödülü / Competition Award)

2006 KNAUF & TES ,
Plaster Implementation Education /Alçı Sistem Uygulamaları Eğitimi, Ankara TR (Yarışma Ödülü / Competition Award)

2006 StoDesign
Forum Colour and Architecture: Colour Theory / Mimarlık ve Renk: Renk Teorisi Sto AG Switzerland, Istanbul TR