Ozan Şen
Ozan Şen is a designer and educator whose work engages contemporary urbanism and architecture through research, theory, and representation. Operating across multiple scales and geographies, he investigates and speculates on urban form, infrastructures, public space. Ozan joins the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte in Fall 2026 as Architecture and Urban Design faculty.
Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, he served as Assistant Professor and Virginia Architecture Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He previously taught architectural design studios at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and practiced at SWA Group as an Associate, with a focus on public open space frameworks and urban design.
His projects and collaborations have been recognized in national and international competitions, including Europan, the Holcim Awards, and the National Architectural Awards of Turkey. In 2021, He contributed to the design-research project Health City to Healthy City: A Case of the Miami Metrorail as a Research Associate at the Office for Urbanization at Harvard GSD, examining the relationship between mobility infrastructure, public health, and urban form. In 2024, Ozan was awarded the Patrick T. Curran Fellowship for Invasive Species: Networks, Gadgets, and Commons in the Digitized Landscape, a research project examining the expanding presence of digital infrastructures, surveillance technologies, and autonomous systems in the built environment. This work forms the foundation of his current research on public space and technological governance.
Ozan holds a Master of Arts in Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. He is a registered architect in Turkey and co-founder of the architectural design and research practice temp-space.