Apofeni is a design practice situated at the crossroads of three scales: the self, city, and geography.

We live in a world where there is an imminent need to forge adjacencies between seemingly segregated subjects and investigate fertile grounds for design opportunities in possible near-futures; while remaining dedicated to the ethos of practicing architecture as a continuous attempt at making sense of the world around us.

We strive for a world where projects stem from their particular context; understood not only as a lump sum of material realities, but as a comprehensive collage of the stories, myths, immaterial dynamics, idiosyncrasies - which collectively charge the built environment with potential.

We produce work that ranges in scale and format, from architectural design, to speculative research and multi-media experiments. Rooted in the architectonic scale, our practice is a collaborative vehicle committed to active questioning of boundaries between art, architecture, landscape design, and city-making.

Aykut Imer initiated Apofeni as a design collaborative in 2016. With backgrounds in engineering and architecture, he has amassed interdisciplinary professional experience over the past decade in New York City, and is a licensed architect in the State of New York.

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 ap·​o·​phe·​nia | \ ˌa-pə-ˈfē-nē-ə \

 : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things