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Medine Altiok
Dipl. Arch AA/SIA/AKNW
Medine is an architect and researcher, who graduated from the AA London in 2000. She runs her own practice in Zurich and Aachen. She is interested in intercultural projects and social integration in architecture. One example is the Muslim burial and prayer house in Hamburg.
Beside her practice she has been teaching Architectural Design at ETH Zurich and BILGI University Istanbul and was Programme Director of the Mittelmeerland Visiting Schools at the AA London.
Medine is founder of mittelmeerland.org, an initiative and academic project dealing with the urban transformation of the Mediterranean territory.
Exhibitions
2020 Out.of.the.blue.map, Manifesta 13 Marseille
2018– Mittelmeerland Travel Exhibition, ongoing
2017 Mittelmeerland Results, AA London
2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Egyptian Pavilion
2015 Architektur 0.15: Jung, Weiblich, Zürich
2013 Swiss Art Awards, Basel
2008 Atlas of the Mediterranean, Salzburg
2007 Swiss Art Awards, Basel
2007 Living in the Orient, EAC Casablanca
2000 Presidents Medals, RIBA London
2000 Selected Projects Reviews, AA London
Lectures
2021 Reading from `On Drifting`, Jan van Eyck Academie
2019 Adaptive Cities, AHRA Conference Dundee
Mittelmeerland, ABU Kayseri
2018 Viscous Space Conference, TU Delft
2017 Narrative Mapping, Ulab TU Berlin
2016 Poetic Sciences, University Hannover
2015 Angewandte Wien, Studio Mueller
Academia Mendrisio, Studio Hasegawa
Alte Positionen Neu, BDA Köln
Living in the City, PBSA Düsseldorf
Oceanland, Sint-Lucas, Brussels
Mittelmeerland, Studio X Istanbul
Mittelmeerland, Studio X Amman
2013 Bartlett London, Studio Kendall
Mittelmeerland, Bilgi University
Mittelmeerland, Alexandria University
2012 Mittelmeerland, AUB Beirut
2011 Urban Detached Houses, ZHDK Zurich
2008 Positionen, BDA Köln
2007 Housing Profiles Istanbul, ETH Zurich
Atlas des Mittelmeeres, BHSF Zurich