Buro Koray Duman Architects

06/09/2026

One month into the 59th Carnegie International — North America’s longest-running international art exhibition held every four years at the — we’re taking a moment to look at some of the details from B-KD’s exhibition design. 

In line with this year’s curatorial statement, expanding on the title “If the word we” to consider the first-person plural as an evolving proposition shaped by listening, translation, and transformation, B-KD collaborated with exhibiting artists to design architectural interventions that present new landscapes in dialogue with their works. Sometimes, these interventions aim to create a productive tension with the existing gallery architecture, in which contradiction and cohabitation coexist and are celebrated. 

B-KD is led by iterative design that prioritizes listening as fundamental to supporting curatorial teams and working directly with artists to realize their vision. From Sofu Teshigahara to , B-KD shaped the way the assemblage of individual objects in display cases are experienced in dialogue with each other as visitors move through the space. Working with , B-KD created a meandering river-like pathway to position their collective’s hanging textiles as a forest that visitors can flow through. Positioned within existing architecture, Ana Raylander Martis dos Anjos’s piece “Justicia” is situated in the ceiling of a hallway for viewers to contemplate from below. The design provides layering of works that creates curiosity across spaces, and that position ’s masks in a thought-provoking tension with existing staircases in the main hall of the Carnegie.

The installation is on view through January 3, 2027.

Photos: Zachary Riggleman ( / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

05/28/2026

B-KD is honored to announce that Future Schools, National Academy of Design () has won a 2026 NYCxDESIGN Award in the Exhibition/Installation category, presented by . Thank you to the awards jury and Interior Design Magazine editor-in-chief, Cindy Allen () for this recognition!

Future Schools is on view through August 22, 2026.
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6pm
📍National Academy of Design

05/18/2026

We’re honored to have contributed exhibition design for the , presenting “Washwasha” in the 61st International Art Exhibition of di Venezia 2026. Curated by and .Nassar, “Washwasha” brings together six artists whose practices contemplate contemporary soundscapes in the UAE, shaped by migration, transience and long-term ties to the land. A phonetic transliteration of the Arabic word for ‘whispering,’ “Washwasha” suggests sound at the threshold of audibility—a starting point for exploring themes of memory, movement, and rapid transformation. From oral storytelling to poetry circles and locally initiated broadcasting efforts, sound has long functioned as a platform for collective self-representation. “Washwasha” situates contemporary artistic practices within this continuum of transmission and exchange.

B-KD’s design provides a journey through the pavilion that traces the progression of sound through multiple modes—from oral histories to movement, migration, and technology. Organizing the exhibition as a sequence of chambers that respond directly to the acoustic signature of the space’s materiality and architecture, visitors are led from zones of close listening to areas consumed by noise and sonic overlap.

Photos by of

05/12/2026

sat down with to discuss B-KD’s recent projects from the US to Italy, including exhibition designs for and at the Venice Biennale and for the ’s 59th Carnegie International, plus our recent Multi-Generational House project in Germantown, NY. Thank you David Barrett Graver () for the coverage!

Read the full interview at the link in our bio.

Words by
Photos by of Seeing Things Photography Studio, and

05/07/2026

The long-awaited opening of is finally here!

Through the lens of , a behind-the-scenes look at B-KD’s exhibition design for ’s Chimera (2026). The large-scale multidisciplinary installation is presented within In Minor Keys, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Official photography coming soon.

05/04/2026

B-KD is honored to have designed the 59th Carnegie International, which opened on Saturday, May 2, and will be on view through Jan. 3, 2027. Organized every four years by Pittsburgh’s , the Carnegie International is North America’s longest-running exhibition of international art. The 59th edition, titled “If the word we,” considers the first-person plural as an open and evolving proposition—one shaped by listening, translation, and transformation—bringing together artistic practices that engage shared experience, circulation, and worlds in transition. Curated by , Danielle A. Jackson (), and Liz Park (), the exhibition approaches “we” not as a unified subject but as a complex and porous position, attentive to contradiction and change.

Taking its clues from the curatorial statement, B-KD approached the exhibition’s design as an example of worlds in making and in transition. Throughout the 45,000 square-foot exhibit, surfaces, volumes, and objects with different rhythms, textures, and scales run parallel to each other. Existing galleries within the museum are architecturally untouched, exposing their rhythm and scale. A series of free-standing walls and rooms runs at the center of the galleries, enlivened through a limewash texture, while a series of platforms and pedestals provides its own rhythm and scale. B-KD collaborated closely with several artists included in the Carnegie International to design the architectural interventions that present new landscapes in dialogue with their works. These interventions aim to create a productive tension with the existing gallery architecture, in which contradiction and cohabitation coexist and are celebrated.

Photos: Zachary Riggleman ( / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

04/28/2026

Hot off the press: coverage of Multi-Generational House, the second residence designed by B-KD for the extended family of artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang ().

Set within a meadow in rural Germantown, NY, the home encompasses three barn-inspired, interconnected volumes. Together, these pavilions form a “small village” for three generations—balancing privacy with communal life while responding to the landscape through courtyards, orientation, and sustainable design principles.

Thanks to Tim McKeough for the thoughtful coverage. Read the full story at the link in our bio.

Photos by:
Alon Koppel (1-3, 9)
Lauren Lancaster (4,6,8)
Naho Kubota (5,7)

04/14/2026

This is Part III of our series taking you inside each room of the ‘Future Schools’ exhibition, currently on view at the National Academy of Design.

THE FORUM

The final gallery in the exhibit serves as a lecture hall and forum. A large pivoting wall displays zines by artist Christian Nyampeta on one side, and functions as a projection screen for talks and lectures when rotated. 

In the corner of the room, a cabinet stores stackable chairs for events, as well as a photocopy machine that allows visitors to reproduce and take home copies of Nyampeta’s zines. This gesture reinforces the exhibition’s emphasis on open access and the circulation of knowledge.

Through these three interconnected spaces, ‘Future Schools’ unfolds as a living educational platform that brings artists, students, and visitors together to imagine alternative ways of learning, gathering and collaborating.

04/09/2026

B-KD Updates from Venice! -

We are honored and thrilled to share that B-KD is collaborating with Denniston Hill on their installation in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Koyo Kouch. Titled 'In Minor Keys', the exhibition will run from May 9 to November 22, 2026, in Venice, Italy.

04/09/2026

We are honored and thrilled that B-KD is the architect for the UAE’s 9th participation in the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Taking its title from the onomatopoeic Arabic word for ‘whispering’, Washwasha looks at contemporary soundscapes in the UAE and the ways they carry memory, movement, and rapid transformation. 

The exhibition will feature works by Mays Albaik, Jawad Al Malhi, Farah Al Qasimi, Alaa Edris, Lamya Gargash, and Taus Makhacheva. Inspired by how changes in architecture, infrastructure, and technology have shaped the way communities hear and are heard—linking earlier collective sound practices with more mediated forms of listening—B-KD designed a sequence of chambers that shift from close listening to spaces shaped by sonic overlap and noise. 

The exhibition will run from May 9 to November 22, 2026, in Venice, Italy.