Biography

Yağız Söylev is a Rotterdam-based architect.
He received his Master degree in architecture with honours from TU Delft in 2018. He attained a BArch degree at Istanbul Technical University in 2014. Currently, he is a lecturer and researcher at the chair of Complex Projects at Delft University of Technology.

He is the associate curator of Vardiya/The Shift which is presented at the Pavilion of Turkey, in the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia in 2018. He is the co-author of the TWTRATE project which was exhibited in the 2. Istanbul Design Biennial in 2014. Soylev collaborated in the FLOWCITY project in Shenzhen Biennial in 2019.

His work experience includes practising at KAAN Architecten, Netherlands and KPM - Kerem Piker Mimarlık, Turkey. He collaborated in Akyazı Cultural Center Project, which received the Best Project Prize in the 15th National Architecture Awards in Turkey. In 2017, He has taken a part in “The Productive Heart of New-Ulm”, which received the Neu-Ulm First Prize in Europan 14.

His research interests include biopolitics of architecture, the power of architecture as a tool of control in everyday life. He investigates the changing role of the architect in the contemporary practice and his master thesis primarily focuses on the commoning practices and the open architectural design strategies in the context of the informal settlements of Valparaiso, Chile. 

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