Melis Ugurlu is an editor who works across academic, cultural, and curatorial publication projects. She collaborates with institutions, independent authors, architects, and researchers to develop writing and scholarship that is conceptually grounded, critically rigorous, and attuned to the wider cultural, political, and disciplinary discourse.
Her practice engages multiple genres, formats, and scales, from individual texts—essays, research papers, dissertations, and books—to cohesive publications shaped within broader editorial or curatorial frameworks. With a background in architecture, history, and criticism, she has worked on a wide range of topics, combining editorial precision with aesthetic, compositional, and structural sensibilities.
Please get in touch via email to discuss a project or enquire about editorial support—from early-stage ideation and developmental editing through to copyediting and proofreading.
SELECTED WORK:
Editorial
The Avery Review
Architecture as Measure, Pavilion of Turkey
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
Hydropower Relations, The Avery Review
Minor Edits, weekly column ︎︎︎Link
The Elephant in the Gallery, XXI Magazine
RSVP for Location, XXI Magazine
The Culture of the Ephemeral, XXI Magazine
Filmmaking from Below, New York Review of Architecture
The River is Also the Mountain: Fluvial Histories of Tigris, TBA21 Ocean Archive
Architecture, Interior, Design
The Sloane Street Deli
Christian Louboutin, La Salvada House
Pliable: Bag as Billboard
3 Feet Deep Records
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