Irem Sezer is an award-winning architect from Istanbul, currently based in Richmond, VA. She is the inaugural AIA Virginia and Virginia Sea Grant Research Fellow and was selected for AIA Virginia’s Emerging Leaders in Architecture 2024 program. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University (2020) and a Master of Architecture from Virginia Tech (2023), where her thesis explored architectural discourse and objects through the lens of Object-Oriented Ontology. Irem recently authored a chapter on Solarpunk Urbanscapes for the upcoming Springer Nature book After Oil. As a registered architect in Turkey, she is currently pursuing licensure in the United States, further expanding her professional practice. She engages in interdisciplinary design research, bridging the theory and praxis of architecture. Her work also explores design pedagogy, speculative + experimental projects and posthuman philosophies. Through creative practice and scholarship, she aims to contribute to and expand architectural discourse.