Design Architect - designs and crafts stuff
Berlin | Tokyo | Vienna | Ankara
Dogan Yigit Kamiloglu is a Berlin-based architectural and spatial designer whose work moves between architecture, installation, and spatial research. Shaped by a background in both architecture and design, his practice explores how atmosphere, perception, and cultural context converge to form the lived experience of space. Working across Europe and Asia, Kamiloglu examines how identical environments can generate divergent emotional and sensory readings, an inquiry that continually drives his experiments in design.
His approach is rooted in an empathetic, context-driven understanding of space: architecture as a living medium that mediates between people, place and the invisible forces, social, cultural, atmospheric, that bind them. Through installations, public interventions, and design projects, he investigates contemporary themes such as gentrification, discrimination, and transnational belonging, often with a deliberately provocative edge. His research draws on thinkers like Gernot Böhme, Edward T. Hall, Arata Isozaki, Jun`ichiro Tanizaki, Peter Zumthor, and Juhani Pallasmaa, alongside the experimental legacy of Coop Himmelblau, Haus-Rucker-Co, Hans Hollein, and other Austrian avant-gardes of the 1960s and 70s.
Kamiloglu has various works in in Germany, Austria, Japan, and Turkey, contributing to commercial, educational, and public-space projects. Most recently, he was part of the design team at Aukett + Heese Architects in Berlin, specializing in spatial concept and atmospheric design. Previously, he served as design and project lead at convex ZT in Austria, working on both architectural and structural projects, experience that underpins his ability to translate conceptual strategies into precise, buildable forms.
His current work includes an ongoing experimental project between Tokyo and Berlin, in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin and Waseda University. The project consists of two identical architectural installations built on different continents, designed to examine cultural interpretations of atmosphere and spatial meaning. The installations will culminate in a photography-based exhibition in both cities, presenting the research through public perception and interaction.
Kamiloglu studied Architecture Typology (M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin, Architecture (M.A., exchange) at Waseda University in Tokyo, and Architecture (B.Sc.) at the Technical University of Graz. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Eskisehir Osmangazi University. He lives and works between Berlin and Tokyo.
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