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Neyran Turan is an architect, and currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University School of Architecture. Turan received her Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University, holds a masters degree from Yale University School of Architecture and a doctoral degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Turan's work focuses on contemporary interpretation of scale, infrastructure and ecology, and their potentiality for new positionings in architecture and urbanism. She is the cofounder of NEMEstudio, a design and research collaborative. Turan is also the founding chief-editor of the recently launched Harvard GSD journal New Geographies (volume 1: 2008, volume 2: Spring 2009).

Turan's recent publications include articles in Thresholds, ACSA Surfacing Urbanisms, Bidoun-Technology, Corporations-Cities, and upcoming book chapters in Landscapes of Development (Harvard University), the Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century (Harvard University) and Public#6: DenseCity. Turan has also acted as the assistant editor for the book, Joseph Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (with Hashim Sarkis and Eric Mumford, Yale University Press, 2008).

Before coming to Rice, Turan was teaching at Harvard GSD. She also taught at Yale University School of Architecture, Boston Architecture College, and Istanbul Technical University. Turan is currently working on the forthcoming volume of the New Geographies journal titled AFTER ZERO.