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I’m Melis Ugurlu (b.1993, Istanbul), an editor, writer, and designer of architecture based in London. I work independently and collaboratively on publications within cultural, curatorial, and academic settings. I’m a contributing editor of the Avery Review and write a weekly column of essays on Minor Edits.
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SELECTED WORK:

Editorial

︎︎︎The Avery Review
︎︎︎Architecture as Measure, Pavilion of Turkey Online Publication
︎︎︎PLAT 6.0 Absence
︎︎︎PLAT 5.5 Re:License
︎︎︎CLOG x Artificial Intelligence

Curatorial, Exhibition, Research

︎︎︎The Pavilion of Turkey, Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
︎︎︎Museum of Lost Volumes
︎︎︎STRAIT, SALT Gallery

Writing

︎︎︎Minor Edits: my weekly column on Substack
︎︎︎The Elephant in the Gallery
︎︎︎RSVP for Location
︎︎︎The Culture of the Ephemeral, Conglomerate, and Transient
︎︎︎New York Review of Architecture Dispatch: Bowery

Architecture, Interior Design

︎︎︎The Sloane Street Deli
︎︎︎Christian Louboutin, La Salvada House

Objects

︎︎︎Pliable: Bag as Billboard
︎︎︎3 Feet Deep Records

I hold an MA in History and Critical Thinking (HCT) from the Architectural Association and received my Bachelor of Architecture (2017) and Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (2015) degrees from Rice University. Previously, I collaborated with Territorial Agency, on the publications for How Heavy is a City? at the 2025

Lisbon Triennale, and I was assistant curator at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, and edited for the Pavilion of Turkey, titled Architecture as Measure, led by Neyran Turan.

My research is situated at the intersection of environmental justice, material ethics, and feminist sensibilities and my MA dissertation explored the dynamic material-histories of concrete through the frameworks of “hydropower relations” and “fluvial feminisms.” I’m also interested in the active and relational modes of writing architecture histories.

I am currently taking on new editorial and writing work. Please get in touch for collaborations, commissions, or just to say hello ︎

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