Ferda Kolatan is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design and a founding director of the award-winning practice SU11 Architecture + Design, based in New York. He earned his Architectural Diploma from RWTH Aachen and his M.S.AAD from Columbia University.

Mr. Kolatan’s work at SU11 has garnered international recognition and has been exhibited at venues such as MoMA, the FRAC Center, Walker Art Center, Vitra Design Museum, Art Basel, Artists Space NY, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Architecture Biennial Beijing, and the Istanbul Design Biennial. He has published numerous articles and book chapters and co-authored the book Meander: Variegating Architecture in 2010. His new book, Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City, was published by Routledge in the spring of 2024. Mr. Kolatan's research studio on Cairo was awarded the AIA Architect Studio Prize and he was selected as a Young Society Leader by the Turkish American Society in New York.