On Thursday, July 27th at 19:30, we will host architect Aslıhan Demirtaş for the fourth edition of the Mahsul Gatherings.

With Aslıhan's words, "How you define 'garden' defines how you are a 'gardener'. In this sentence, the garden can be replaced by the world, nature, city; the gardener can be replaced by an architect, engineer or farmer. Our imaginations of the world directly affect our ways of doing within it. While establishing the relationship between architecture, graft and crops in this way, I will revisit the Graft project in the garden of 'Mahsul'. Our key words and names: houseboats, Süleyman Demirel and DSI, mosses, Goethe, Seyhan Dam and Halet Çambel.''

Aslıhan Demirtaş, is an architect and researcher and cofounder of KHORA Office. Prior to establishing her own practice, she collaborated with Pritzker Laureate I.M. Pei for nearly a decade as the chief designer for Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar and the Miho Chapel in Kyoto, Japan. Aslıhan served as a technical reviewer for the 2020-2022 Aga Khan Architecture Awards. She is an active member of the Initiative for the Protection of the Historical Yedikule Urban Gardens.  Graft, a research project begun in 1999, which we will hear a lot about at the 4th event of Mahsul Meetings, is currently preparing for its next step as an e-book at SALT as a recipent of Graham Foundation grant. You can find information about the exhibition, research and database at Graftonline.