Ercument Gorgul is a multiple award-winning professor, designer and technologist. As the first full-time appointed, non-Chinese foreign faculty member of Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, he was instrumental on elevating the education quality and teaching innovation as well as international graduate school acceptance rates of the school. Among his studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and as a cross-registered student in MIT (course 4 & MAS), Ercument held positions as research associate and teaching assistant at former Harvard Center for Design Informatics, where he was the member of the team receiving Provost Grant for Innovation in Learning and Instructional Technology among other achievements.
Ercument was the director of 2009 experimental summer program in architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU); Director of the 2013 and 2016 summer advanced workshop program at the Shih Chien University in Taipei and regional coordinator for 2014, 2015 and 2021& 2022 Shanghai Global Summer School for Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). Other teaching appointments include Tsinghua University in Beijing, HKU’s Shanghai Centre, London-based Architectural Association’s (AA) Global Schools in China and more recently at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart (HFT). His collaborative and research-oriented work has been exhibited extensively including Hong Kong- Shenzhen Bi-city Biennial and at the Venice Biennial.
Ercument has been an invited guest critic at Harvard and Catholic Universities; at the University of Southern California in US and Shanghai University in China. Ercu instructs courses and studio focused on experimental teaching methods, on fundamentals of design, on generative design methodology as well as on alternative means of representation. His academic interests lie on conceptualization and experience of multi-scalar spaces, alongside teaching creativity and cultivating cross-disciplinary talent by developing different methods and mechanisms of abstraction.
Ercument Gorgul is the lead consultant of EGG, a young research, technology and experience consulting firm. Operating at the intersection of knowledge, history, space, materiality, engineering and time, the work of the office covers design-based strategy, education, interiors, architecture, graphics, furniture and interactive solutions.
Ercument holds a High Honors Bachelor degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, two Masters from Istanbul Technical University, and a Masters from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is currently pursuing a PhD on neuroscience and built environment. Ercument is an Associate AIA and LEED AP in the US. Since 2021, he is actively participating on various research and pedagogy-based initiatives for Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) based in Salk Institute, San Diego.
