Kaya Arıkoğlu


Kaya Arıkoğlu is a Turkish American architect and urban designer.

Early life and education

After completing his bachelor's degree in architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, he was a student of Colin Rowe at Cornell University, finishing his Urban Design thesis on the waterfront development in south Baltimore in 1976, which was later published in Rowe's book on urbanistics.
He is a grandson of :tr:Zamir Damar Arıkoğlu|Zamir Damar Arıkoğlu, a politician in Turkey.

Works and awards

He has won the national architecture award of Turkey in 2004 for his building.
in 2012 he won an invite only competition for the campus design of Adana Science and Technology University.