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. She engages in interdisciplinary design research, bridging the theory and praxis of architecture. Irem recently authored a chapter on Solarpunk Urbanscapes for the forthcoming Springer Nature book After Oil and presented her research on Kitbashing in Architecture: Sustainable Assemblage Practices at the 2025 Responsive Cities Symposium in Barcelona.