Atıl Aggündüz

Atıl Aggündüz graduated from the ITU Department of Architecture in 2015 and won a total of 18 awards in national and international design competitions between 2012 and 2017. After receiving the Arkitera Travel Grant in 2016, he traveled to South America for a long research trip. In 2017, he left SO? Architecture, where he had worked for four years as a junior/senior architect, to join Kadir Has University’s Faculty of Art and Design as a Lecturer. Over the following 4.5 years, he taught in the Interior Architecture Department and served as the department’s First-Year Coordinator for the last two years of his academic appointment. In 2020, he completed his thesis-based master’s degree in the ITU Architectural Design Program with a thesis titled “Canvas Space: As a Medium of Reconciliation.” As a co-founder of Piknik Works, he has been developing projects across architecture, art, and design for more than 9 years.

Alongside his work with the studio, he is active in stage design, set design, and creative direction both in Austria and in Türkiye. Since relocating to Vienna in 2022, he has been leading the Vienna office of Piknik Works.