Aleks combines his training in classic modernism and respect for history with a Southern California environmental and aesthetic sensibility. As principal of Aleks Istanbullu Architects he takes a hands-on approach to every project, determined to find and combine elemental and natural concepts. In close collaboration with our team, he then evolves each design into an individual aesthetic and functional whole. This results in buildings that are inherently sustainable and emotionally evocative. A playful and sensuous minimalism together with an intellectual rigor and conceptual clarity is a hallmark of Aleks’s work. His detailing and choice of materials is elegant and warm, with an emphasis on tactility and color, generating an ongoing dialogue between the building and its inhabitants, within the building itself, and in relation to each building’s context.
Featured Project: Lago Vista Guest House, Coldwater Canyon, CA
