Hakan Demirel

Hakan Demirel was born in 1983 in Malatya, Turkey. After graduating from Malatya High School in 2001, he started his professional education at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Architecture in Istanbul. He attended several national and international competitions and workshops during his education and has several awards. He graduated from Yıldız Technical University in 2006 and in 2007 he visited diploma projects as a jury member at the same university. For his further studies he lived in New York between 2007 and 2008. Upon his return from New York, he and Arif Suyabatmaz formed a partnership and established Suyabatmaz Demirel Architects. In 2011 he has been selected as one of the most successful young architects of Europe by the “Europe 40 Under 40” Awards organized by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, together with The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. Architecture+Design & CERA Awards in 2014 was organised with the participations of Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice(TSMD), Istanbul SMD and Izmir SMD. After being selected as ‘Best Young Architect’ in Turkey, he has been awarded with the prize ‘The Golden Emerging Architects’, given to 5 architects around the world by Architecture+Design & CERA Awards. He has been tutoring design project classes in Yıldız Technical University as part-time lecturer since 2012. He was a member of the Board of Directors of ‘Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice’ in 2017-2021, where he became a member in 2015. He established Atelier Hakan Demirel in 2022 and continues his professional work in İstanbul.

Website: www.hakandemirel.ist