In 2016, NEMESTUDIO won the League Prize, which celebrates young architects and designers. Founders Mete Sonmez and Neyran Turan presented their work as part of the associated lecture series.
The San Francisco-based duo has a lonstanding preoccupation with what they call “the slightly unfamiliar.” In her talk, Somnez defined the term as “the subtle aesthetic tension between reality and abstraction” that helps audiences “achieve a much deeper and [more] nuanced engagement with reality.”
This notion manifests itself in two ways in their work, she said: in tweaks to vernacular architectural forms and in the application of architectural methods to issues that the profession doesn’t typically address.
In this video, Somnez and Turan discuss recent projects including:
– Museum of Lost Volumes
– Nine Islands
– LV House
