United States
Irem Sezer is an architect from Istanbul and currently serves as an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Architecture. She previously served as the inaugural AIA Virginia and Virginia Sea Grant Research Fellow and was selected for AIA Virginia’s Emerging Leaders in Architecture 2024 program. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University (2020) and a Master of Architecture from Virginia Tech (2023), where her thesis explored architectural discourse and objects through the lens of Object-Oriented Ontology. Irem recently authored a chapter on Solarpunk Urbanscapes for the Springer Nature book After Oil. As a registered architect in Turkey, she is currently pursuing licensure in the United States, further expanding her professional practice. She engages in interdisciplinary design research, bridging the theory and praxis of architecture. Her work also explores design pedagogy, speculative + experimental projects and posthuman philosophies. Through creative practice and scholarship, she aims to contribute to and expand architectural discourse.
Conducting research, supporting the Adaptation Design Network, and contributing to AIA Virginia Knowledge Communities and events.
Co-funded by Virginia Sea Grant Focused on the renovation of the old Middle Peninsula Airport and Garage, involving research, feasibility studies, rural resilience strategies and conceptual design for the new R&D campus.
Teaching I. Ideas, Concepts, and Representations II. Qualifying Design Seminar I assisted Prof. Bedford with the courses syllabi, giving criticisms to assignments, running the canvas page of the course, and grading. Research I. Speculative Plans I worked with Prof. Bedford to create the 3D modellings of the plans, plan drawings, visualizations, renders, and the catalog of the project.
Assisted with plan drawings, concept discussions, proposal development, and physical model creation for office projects. Engaged in research on resilient habitats and natural systems at Captain Sinclair, VA and developed conceptual designs for a research and innovation campus.