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BINAA
Building Innovation Arts Architecture
Architecture today is no longer about individual genius—it's about collective thinking.
To truly "think outside the box," as many architects aspire to do, means going beyond the usual circle of architects. It involves engaging people from diverse disciplines—engineers, businesspeople, workers, craftsmen, and users—to understand their unique perspectives.
To truly "think outside the box," as many architects aspire to do, means going beyond the usual circle of architects. It involves engaging people from diverse disciplines—engineers, businesspeople, workers, craftsmen, and users—to understand their unique perspectives.
But how can all these different viewpoints be combined in the creation of a single architectural work? A craftsman sees an idea differently than an engineer or a manufacturer does. Yet somehow, these perspectives converge in the final product. How does that actually happen?
We often admire the end result—a park, a bridge, a building—without ever considering the process that brought it into being. What brought all these voices together into one coherent whole? How was the final product truly made?
These are the questions I found myself asking as BINAA began to take shape—a platform dedicated to showcasing the architectural process and giving voice to the many disciplines and perspectives that contribute to it.
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).
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