Alp Demiroglu

Alp Demiroglu is a Master of Environmental Design candidate in the School of Architecture at Yale University, and holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University. In general, his research focuses on issues of migration, infrastructure, landscape, and translation throughout the Mediterranean, Caucasus, and Central Asian regions. Currently, Alp is examining how the South Caucasus serves as a crucial case study for understanding the complex dynamics between territorial sovereignty, resource extraction, and environmental exploitation through an analysis of how infrastructural projects have been wielded as tools of political control while simultaneously transforming the physical and social fabric of the region.

Alp refers to himself as a spatial researcher, looking not only at formal and informal “architectures,” but at the relationship of infrastructure and landscape to the societal and cultural systems that govern, determine, and affect perceptions of place.