Jeff-Turko.net

Registered Architect

2000- : Stichting Bureau Architectenregister, Registered Architect, The Netherlands, registration num:1.000401.014

Architectural Education:

1993-1999: AA Diploma. RIBA parts 1 & 2, Architectural Association School of Architecture London, England.
1991-1993: Mercer County Community College, Architecture Program, Mercer County, New Jersey.

Professional Experience:

2002: NEKTON, London UK
2000 – 04: 51% Studios, London, UK, designer / coordinator
1999: UN-studio van Berkel & Bos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Competition project involvement, designer / coordinator
1998: Michael Landau Associates, Princeton, New Jersey, Architectural assistant
1997: T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Architectural assistant

Professional involvements:

2002: Founder of NEKTON
2000-2002: Collaborator with OCEANnorth: www.ocean-north.net
1999-2002: Co-founder Urban Office, research group, dissolved in 2002

Key Design Projects

Urban design:

2004: Project X, Ideas for housing, Barcelona, Spain (competition)
2001: Surfacing_Fields, Re-Planning Peetri Plats, Narva, Estonia (competition)
2000: LANDSCrAPER_ Urban Organizer & Urban Intensifier Dusseldorf, Germany, Commissioned by the NRW Forum for Culture & Science, In collaboration with: Ocean North, Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners, London (invited proposition)
1999: Urban Anomaly, Bjørvika Oslo. Norway (research project)
1999: Asian Design Forum, Taipei Taiwan, AA team with Mohsen Mostafavi AA Chairman, (invited proposition)

Building design:

2005: Betty House, Iceland (private commission)
2004: Sarah King Jewelry, Temporary Showroom, London, UK
2004: Experimental House 2004, (competition)
2003: Icelandic Ambassadors Residence, Berlin (competition)
2002: Bus Stop design, Indian USA (competition)
2001-02: 802 N.Hulet House, Flagstaff Arizona (private client)
2001: World Center for Human Concerns, Proposal for New World Trade Centre NYC, Commissioned by Max Protach Gallery, New York, In collaboration with: OceanNorth (invited proposition)
2000: Inside_Out_House, Nurinkurinen_Talo, Pomarkku House competition, Finland (competition)
2000: LANDSCrAPER_Urban RIng Bridge Dusseldorf, Germany, Commissioned by the NRW Forum for Culture & Science, In collaboration with: OceanNorth, Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners, London (invited proposition)
1999: Anomalous Gallery, Bjørvika Oslo, Norway (research project)

Research interests:
Development of architectural form through digital and analogue computational Techniques.

Teaching:

2003 - 06: University Of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Degree Unit_D
2005 – 06: University Of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Diploma Unit _9
2001 – 05: University Of East London School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Diploma Unit _6
2001: Transitions Summer School, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2000: Intense Urbanism Summer School, Architectural Association School of Architecture
1999 –2000: Architectural Association School of Architecture, First Year Unit 2
1999: Multiplicities Summer School, Architectural Association School of Architecture

Teaching Workshops:
2000: University of Pennsylvania, London studio, High-rise-Horizontal. Post-graduate studio with Homa Farjadi & Pablo Lazo
2000: Diploma unit 4_Urban Studio, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Modeling 2 Work Shop, with Michael Hensel
1999: Diploma unit 4_Urban Studio, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Analogue Modeling of Dynamic Systems workshop

Invited Critic:

2005: Architectural Association, London Metropolitan University, Graduate Design D.R.L. Design Research Laboratory Architectural Association
2004: Architectural Association, TU Vienna
2003: Architectural Association, Greenwich University London
2002: Architectural Association, Graduate Design D.R.L. Design Research Laboratory, Architectural Association, Inter-unit 2
2001: Expert team jury critic Architectural Association, Diploma Unit_4 Urban Studio
2000: Architectural Association, Graduate Design D.R.L. Design Research Laboratory, Phase1, University of Pennsylvania, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Published Work:

2005:Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design World Center for Human Concerns, as Urban Office in collaboration with: OceanNorth; Published by Chronicle Books,U.S.
2004: Landscape Urbanism, A Manual for the Machinic Landscape: LANDSCrAPER_Urban RIng Bridge & World Center for Human Concerns, as Urban Office in collaboration with: OceanNorth, Published by Architectural Association Publications
2002:A New World Trade Center Exhibition; Design Proposals, Max Protetch World Center for Human Concerns in collaboration with: OceanNorth; Published by HarperCollins
2002:AD Architectural Design magazine, Furniture and Architecture, Practice Profile; Ocean North World Center for Human Concerns and LANDSCrAPER_Urban RIng Bridge In collaboration with: OceanNorth; Wiley-Academy publishing
2002: Space of Extremes, Do-group, Space the Final Extreme, Published by the Oslo School of Architecture
2002: Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, AD Architectural Design magazine, Virtually Crash Testing the Box, Wiley-Academy publishing
2000: Maja, Estonian Architecture Magazine 2001 2 – 2001 (29) Surfacing_Fields, Re-Planning Peetri Plats, Narva, Estonia
2001:Meidän Talo, Finish building Magazine, ‘Inside_Out_House, Nurinkurinen_Talo,” Pomarkku House competition, Finland
2001: 10+1 no. 22 Architecture 2001: Forty Navigations, INAX publishing
2000: Maja, Estonian Architecture Magazine 2/3 – 2000 (26) ‘Bjørvika Project’’
2000: Living Bridges Die schönsten Brücken vom Mittelalter bis zum Cyberspace
NRW-Forum Kultur and Wirtschaft Düsseldorf pp.60-63
2000: Morgenbladet 2 June 2000, Norwegian national newspaper, “Byrom Som Bølger Urban Topografi” pp. Front & 4-5
1995: AA files 30, Autumn 1995 "Sites Seen: AA Intermediate Unit 5 - 'Constructed Memories'." pp. 80-81.

On-line publishing:
2005: www.nekton.org design studio website
2005: www.jeff-turko.net web-log interface used for the broadcasting of research and developments in my professional and educational endeavors as well as other interests.
2005: www.diploma-unit-9.net web-log interface of post graduate design diploma unit 9, used for the broadcasting of research, development and information dissemination.
2005: www.degree-unit-d.net web-log interface of undergraduate design degree unit D, used for the broadcasting of research, development and information dissemination.

Conferences, Symposia, & Lectures:

2002: Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Contemporary Techniques in Architecture: ‘Crash Testing The Box’, AD-Wiley Academy book launch
2002: do-group: www.do-group.net, The Space of Environmental Extremes, Helsinki
2001: Form Seminar, Oslo School of Architecture
2001: Transitions Conference: Urbanisms of Change, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2001: do-group: www.do-group.net, The Space of InFormation, London

Organizations:

2001-2005:
do-group: Diatactical Operations And Dynamic Relations In Design, Conference / Workshop 2001 – 05

Exhibitions:
2006:
Future City: Barbican Art Gallery
World Center for Human Concerns, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2005:
March / July
World Center for Human Concerns @ San Jose Museum of Art
Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity In Design
From March 6 to July 10, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2003:
February
World Center for Human Concerns @ The Architectural Association, London
Contours: Evolutionary Strategies for Design
From 28th of Feb till 28th of March, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2002:
January
World Center for Human Concerns @ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the Max Protetch Gallery
From 17 January to 16 February, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
April
World Center for Human Concerns @ the National Building Museum, Washington DC
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington DC
From 7 April to early June 2002, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
July/August
World Center for Human Conerns @ the Vitra Design Museum, Berlin
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Berlin
From July to August 2002, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
September/November
World Center for Human Concerns @ the Architecture Biennale in Venice
'A new World Trade Center' Exhibition at the Architecture Biennale in Venice
From 4 September to 24 November 2002, in collaboration with: OceanNorth.
2000:
‘Living Bridges’ Dusseldorf, Germany
LANDSCrAPER_Urban Ring Bridge
Commissioned by the NRW Forum for Culture & Science
In collaboration with: OceanNorth
Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners, London