Turan Duda

Durham, North Carolina

Turan Duda, Principal and Design Director, brings 45 years of experience and an international reputation for design excellence to his role at Corgan. He is well-known among clients for his approach to architecture through a process he calls the “practice of engagement.” Employing a deeply collaborative and exploratory design process that engages clients as well as design teams, he seeks a unifying concept, an idea that encompasses all the elements of a project—stakeholders’ aspirations, program, budget, context, sustainability—while capturing its symbolic essence. The desired outcome is a built environment that is greater than its parts and uniquely tailored to the people, place and purposes it serves.

Turan’s portfolio of more than 150 projects, many of them award winners, spans the United States, Mexico, Japan, and China. His notable commercial commissions include the Frost Bank and Republic office towers in Austin, the Bank of America Technology Center and Promenade in Charlotte, and the Terminus complex and NCR Global Headquarters in Atlanta. Monterrey, Mexico, is host to several of his soaring office and residential towers, such as Equus 333. His innovative commercial and headquarter buildings include the triangular 601 Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC, and Dimensional Place in Austin. Among his many institutional and school commissions, Turan has been a trailblazer in designing health and wellness centers, such as the first-of-its-kind Duke Integrative Medicine and the Duke Student Wellness Center. A notable center for health in a corporate setting is the recently completed Walton Family Whole Health and Fitness on Walmart corporate campus in Arkansas.

Turan draws inspiration from the vernacular, whether it be a piazza in Italy or a barn in Arkansas, and from the ways in which people interact with their built environments. A lifelong learner, he has been a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, where he investigated the influence of fragmentation and layering on the experience of architecture in urban centers. long-term impact.

Turan earned a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University. He was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2013 for his contributions to architectural practice and education. As an educator, he has taught graduate students at Yale University and served as a visiting studio critic at MIT, Columbia University, UNC Charlotte, and Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally, including with the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal from AIA North Carolina in 2021 and the Distinguished Alumni Award from North Carolina State University in 2022.