Mersiha Veledar is an educator and a licensed practicing architect. She received her Bachelors of Architecture from The Cooper Union in 2003 and her Masters of Architecture II from Princeton University in 2005.
The genesis of her professional work and studio pedagogy on material architectonics and building integrated housing, originate in her “Architecture can Heal: Universal Elements” Thesis [advised by Lebbeus Woods] from The Cooper Union, which received numerous awards for it’s experimental focus on how environment [light, air, water, wind] can influence the architectonic design of intimately scaled architectural elements such as walls, columns, doors and windows to furniture objects such as chairs and tables, as a universal alphabet of design fundamentals.
In 2013, she started an independent design and research atelier called Veledar Works where she continues to evolve elements and objects through rigorous project testing and actualization of built form. Her extensive professional work experience captures an array of public and private programs ranging in scale from schools, museums, to the surreal intimacy and playful details of domestic residences. She has built work in New York, New Jersey and overseas.