2026




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Anatomy of Inspiration

I was a keynote speaker at the 18th Istanbul Biennale (2025) for the Anatomy of Inspiration talk series!

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Tactical Urbanism Now!
Our project From Soil to Soil: Stitching the Food Cycle through Landscapes and Cultures, with Fernando Sanchez for the Tactical Urbanism Now! competition by TerraViva, won the Community’s Choice Award!

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The Bartlett Autumn Show Book 2025

My master’s dissertation was among the few fully featured in The Bartlett Autumn Show Book 2025 (page 18)!
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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 2024-2025
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments 

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

Uskudar University 2024-2025
MA Sufi Culture and Literature

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

Istanbul Bilgi University 2019-2023
BArch Architecture (High Honours)

London College of Music 2007-2022
Classical Piano, Grade 8


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2026


Location: Dogali, Canakkale
Type: Workshop, communal
Date: 2022 Summer
Study: Pavilion

Collaborator: Sinan Logie

A wooden structure was designed where this ecological village would have meet its need of a service area which includes a common bathroom and toilet. I spent about 2 weeks in this ecological village and worked on the construction of the cottage. During this time, I camped. I both had involved myself in nature and  experienced and participated in a practical study which was significant if we were to consider 1.5 years online education due to the pandemic. In this construction, where heavy machinery was not used and only hand tools were prioritized, we processed construction works of all scales from column-beam carrier system to wood coating and sanding works, with our hands.