SEVIL TARA AKDORA
Architectural designer based in Los Angeles, CA.
SEVIL TARA AKDORA
Architectural designer based in Los Angeles, CA.
EXPERIENCE
2022 - CUR.
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
2018
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER
Studio AR&D Architects, CA
A high-end custom residential architecture firm in Los Angeles, CA.
DESIGN AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT
WE-Designs, CA
Drawing and research of infographics, illustrations, AR content and touch-up of line drawings for digitalSTRUCTURES book, design templates for chapters and outline based on the structure of the book and worked on the overall design of the book.
TEACHER'S ASSISTANT
University of Southern California
Structural Design and Analysis
Graduate School Architecture Studio
INTERN ARCHITECT
GPS / Gary Paige Studio
Worked with Gary Paige, the principle and founder of GP/S on graphics for a research book and multiple architectural projects based on Los Angeles.
INTERN ARCHITECT
SUPERPOOL
Superpool is an international architecture practice based in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 2006 by its two partners Selva Gürdoğan and Gregers Tang Thomsen who met at Rem Koolhaas’ studio Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 2003, where they worked until establishing Superpool.
EDUCATION
2019 - 2022
2015 - 2019
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Southern California
Magna Cum Laude Academic Distinction Award
Tau Sigma Delta (TSD) Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts
BA IN ARCHITECTURE
Rice University, School of Architecture
BA IN VISUAL AND DRAMATIC ARTS
Rice University, School of Humanities
EXHIBITIONS
2020
2018
USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
The Blueprint 2022 Exhibition
"The Blueprint 2022" is an exhibition of various forms of architectural representation, including drawings, images, media, artifacts, and positions/polemics/problems that serve as "The Blueprint" for leveraging design, technology, and media to engage emerging social, cultural, technological and environmental issues in the future of our built environment.
16TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION
Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice Biennale of Architecture
With the theme of FREESPACE, the Biennale Architettura 2018 presented for public scrutiny examples, proposals, elements - built or unbuilt - of work that exemplifies essential qualities of architecture which include the modulation, richness and materiality of surface; the orchestration and sequencing of movement, revealing the embodied power and beauty of architecture.