KHORA is a creative, generative, and idea-producing milieu that nurtures the practices of Aslıhan Demirtaş and Ali Cindoruk. Through projects in space, landscape, design, installation, art, and performance, as well as research and activism practices, it consciously transcends and intersects the fields and boundaries of disciplines.
Ali Cindoruk is a co-founder of Khora, an expanded architecture and design practice grounded in research, art, and ecology. He brings together his work in both graphic and spatial design within a process shaped by conceptual and narrative-driven content. He frequently collaborates with institutions, projects, and brands such as Anatolivar, Ağustos DH, and the Lumbardhi Foundation, which focus on preserving the expressive and diversity footprints of cultural or biological entities. He is a member of the art collective Grup Grip-in, which engages with concepts such as narrative and myth-making, authorship, intertextuality, and appropriation. He is a graduate of METU (BID) and Bilkent University (MA).
Aslıhan Demirtaş is a co-founder of Khora, an expanded architecture and design practice based on research, art, and ecology. Her collaborative, transdisciplinary, and multi-scalar architectural practice positions itself between different fields and boundaries through productions including buildings, landscapes, installations, exhibitions, and research. Before establishing their office, now based in Istanbul, she worked for many years in New York as a lead designer with Pritzker Prize, winning architect I. M. Pei on projects such as the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, and the Miho Chapel in Japan. She has led studios and workshops at numerous institutions, including Parsons School of Design, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Harvard GSD. In 2022, Demirtaş served on the technical review committee of the 15th Aga Khan Award for Architecture; she is a recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant and a member of the Historic Yedikule Gardens Conservation Initiative.
