Tabanlioglu Architects (TA_) will close its on-going exhibition "Stage_0 Travelogue" with a last exhibition tour and panel discussion, along with the launch of a new book at the Architekturgalerie München, Germany. 

Opened at the the Architekturgalerie Munich on September 29, the Stage_0 Travelogue presents Murat Tabanlioglu's travel memories - which is described as "state zero" of architecture - and mapped with selective pictures, alongside Tabanlioglu Architects' realised projects with recent competition finalist proposal New National Stadium Japan (2012) in Tokyo, Japan and the winning proposal Tehran Office Led Mixed-Use Tower in Tehran, Iran.

Image © Saskia Wehler

The exhibition, presented as the firm's profound backdrop, will close its doors on November 11 at the gallery with a last exhibition tour and panel discussion will be held with journalist and editor Olaf Bartels, Murat Tabanlioglu, founder of TA_, and Nicola Borgmann, director of the Architekturgalerie München, at the Association of German Architects (BDA) Bayern. 

Travelogue conversations will mainly discuss inevitable communication tools of information and architecture, set strongly itself within today's architecture and urbanism. The role of design and multiple ways of interpreting architectural processes will be tackled in detail throughout panel discussion. 

"In our age of speed and communication, like people, knowledge and the information travel fast and often, in both physical and virtual worlds," said Tabanlioglu Architects.

"As the boundaries of geographical world have loosened up, we learn more from each other."

"We are informed about immediate innovations simultaneously, whilst our local cultures, so archi-cultures, easily meet and influence each other, more naturally than ever before."

Thus, design demonstrates a transitive and more fluid pattern. In terms of creative practice, design becomes an idea rather than an ideal, also by the merger of alternative disciplinarity. The boundaries of what once accepted are not any more distinct design standards," the studio added. 

Image © Saskia Wehler

The Travelogue conversations will be opened with welcome speeches by Prof. Suha Ozkan, Founder and President of World Architecture Community, and Rainer Hofmann, Kreisvorsitzender BDA Bayern. Suha Ozkan also reviews the exhibition in the new book of Tabanlioglu Architects, presented in an introductory part of the Travelogue.

Stage_0 Travelogue, subtitled "MAPPINS: Projections of an architect", curated by Murat Tabanlioglu, embarks on a tempestuous quest to understand how "mutual interaction" is reflected as a transitive tool in today's built environment. 

Image © Hasan Deniz

The founder of architecture practice Murat Tabanlioglu describes his travels, mappings, images and accumulated memories as "state zero" of architecture in a constructive or much more effective way. 

"Mutual interaction between peoples and societies is inevitable. Transitivity born out of encounters stands as a major consequence in architectural language, in a denaturalising way or constructively," said Tabanlioglu Architects.

 "Architectural work affects communities and real people,  traveling architect acquires a wider world experience and awareness; the eye records and the architect diffuses the collected information and specific analysis in to the projects, like the bee “communicating” with the flower for co-evolution between the species."

Murat Tabanlioglu's personal imageries reflect eye-catching details of natural environments and buildings from different vantage points. His travelogue images are reflected from many countries of the world including Istanbul, Amsterdam, Miami, New York, London and Venice. 

"Multiplicity of images of geographies, of architecture(s), of people and life, and the inspiration of global architectural and urban works of today and the past, the patterns nature, and man-made environment are recorded as traces of travel, pieces of the travelogue, and these notes multiply and reunite as parts of another story," added the studio.

Image © Elif Simge Fettahoglu

The panel conversation, organized for the Finissage of the Stage_0 Travelogue exhibition, takes the travelogue as a means of collection and reflection, and as a base of creative process, opening up discussion across boundaries, across cultures and architectural practices.

During the panel discussion, Murat Tabanlioglu will also present his new book, carrying the same name with the exhibition. The book is divided into 5 sections and each section interprets the exhibition and the concept of Travelogue with different perspectives written by Olaf Bartels, Suha Ozkan, Murat Tabanlioglu and Çağrı Akay.

Book cover. Image © Tabanlioglu Architects

The first part of the book, presented as "An Introductory Discourse for the Travelogue", is divided into 4 subtitled pages including On Travelogue: An Introduction by Murat Tabanlioglu, Travelogue Conversations with Olaf Bartels & Nicola Borgmann in conversation with Murat Tabanlıoğlu, Tabanlioglu In Munich by Suha Ozkan and Local Architecture Designed Globally by Olaf Bartels. 

The second part titled "The Travelogue" explores the impressions and images of Murat Tabanlioglu. The third part of the book titled "On The World Map: Tabanlioglu Works Across The Globe" focuses on the projects of Tabanlioglu Architects realised across the world. In the fourth section, Murat Tabanlioglu and Çağrı Akay will take part with their articles on the "Staging The Tavelogue: The Architectural Concept".

The last part of the book is presented as "Black-White" subtitled "One day in Istanbul  through the lens of Hasan Deniz". The publication of the book has not yet been confirmed by Tabanlioglu Architects.

Book cover and internal page. Image © Tabanlioglu Architects

Tabanlioglu Architects is part of a long tradition extending to Dr. Hayati Tabanlioglu - one of the most well-known architects in contemporary Turkish architecture. The firm was founded in 1990 by Murat Tabanlıoglu and his father Hayati Tabanlioglu, and Melkan Gürsel joined the firm as partner in 1995.

Tabanlioglu Architects has offices in Istanbul, New York, London, Dubai and Doha. The studio produces a large number of projects comprised of different scales and the firm won various awards including RIBA International Award with Loft Gardens in 2011 and Bodrum Milas International Airport in 2013.

The firm's Beyazıt State Library renovation won WA Awards in the 24th Cycle. Tabanlioglu Architects also won WA Awards with 5 projects in the 22nd Cycle. 

Tabanlioglu Architects is currently working on a new residential tower - called 118 E 59th Street Residences - in New York and a Community and Production Center in Bayburt, Turkey, which aims to empower women's communal production in a rural province of Turkey. 

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