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Selva Gürdoğan

Founding Partner, Superpool

Selva Gürdoğan graduated with honors from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 2003. After graduation, she worked for Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam and in New York. In 2006 together with Gregers Tang Thomsen, she founded Superpool. 

During 2013-2019, Selva co-directed Studio-X Istanbul, an urban laboratory of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 

Between 2019 and 2022, she taught at the Architecture Association School of Architecture in London. Since 2017, she has led and advised on many public initiatives for children and caregivers within the Urban95 framework of the Van Leer Foundation in collaboration with city administrations in Türkiye, Jordan and Ethiopia. 

Selva lives between Copenhagen and Istanbul and aside from her work with Superpool, she supports the development of Open Urban Practice, a platform for collaboration for better public programs, spaces and buildings.

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Sarıdemir Mah. Ragıp Gümüşpala Cad. No: 10 Eminönü 34134
Fatih-İstanbul / TÜRKİYE
T: +90 ( 212 ) 402 19 00
F: +90 ( 212 ) 402 19 55

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