Burak Pekoglu
Founder & M. Architect
Burak Pekoğlu was born in 1984 and raised in Turkey. He studied architecture in the USA and has worked in Denmark, Turkey, and the United States. Burak holds a Master of Architecture (MArch) degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011). He earned his Bachelor of Science in Architecture, cum laude, from SUNY Buffalo in 2008, during which he also participated in an exchange program at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. He has worked at internationally renowned offices including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in New York; Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) in Aarhus, Denmark; and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (PCPA) in New Haven.
In 2012, he founded BINAA | Building INnovation Arts Architecture with the aim of uniting innovative and artistic ideas through a collaborative platform. He has received multiple international awards and recognitions, including the Architizer A+ Award (2017), Young Architects Selection by GEMSS (2019), and Europe 40 Under 40 (2020).