Organized by the partnership of The Circle and Binat Communication & Consultancy and under the main sponsorship of VitrA, the Istanbul Architecture Festival will address the theme of "Paradigm Shift" with events to take place between 5-11 December 2020.
Binat Communication & Consultancy, which carries out architectural publishing and sectoral communication projects, and The Circle, an architecture-oriented culture, art and research platform, has collaborated to bring an architecture festival to Istanbul. The the Advisory Board of the Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020, which will take place between December 5-11 is composed of İpek Akpınar, Müge Cengizkan, Ela Çil, Sibel Dalokay, Neslihan Dostoğlu, Deniz Güner, Yeşim Remember, Sinan Logie, Kerem Piker, Dürrin Süer, Ertuğ Uçar and Zuhal Ulusoy. Within the scope of the festival, the events centered on Istanbul will be organized in accordance with pandemic conditions by balancing open-air physical spaces and digital methods.
As we leave the first 20 years of the 21st century behind, what has been done in the context of architecture has not changed radically, but the issues have changed a lot. With the theme of its first year, “Paradigm Shift”, the Istanbul Festival of Architecture aims to examine the reflections of new concepts in the architectural language on the space. The festival, which aims to establish a discussion and sharing platform with a focus on city and architecture around the determined theme, aims to protect the city rights and generate new ideas about the city through a dialogue that includes not only the architects and sector representatives but also the citizens in general.
