Ece Yetim

Ece Yetim is an architectural designer and multidisciplinary artist based in Boston. She focuses on representational practices and critical mapping and uses architectural drawing as a political medium to explore the potentials of public spaces and the solidarity they can foster. She has a passion for research and feminist pedagogies. Ece is co-founder of KOMM.UNITY, a women-owned experience design firm that creates transformative furniture and events aimed at strengthening community bonds and promoting multicultural dialogues.

She previously worked at Howeler + Yoon Architecture in Boston, where her experience ranged from exhibition and museum design to architectural competitions and tower design. Prior to HYA, she worked at Studio Daniel Libeskind in New York on the Maggie Center Clinic Project and exhibition design. She also worked at Atelier Bow Wow in Tokyo and AKS Architecture in Istanbul.

Ece holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture and a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. She also studied in the MArch and Sustainability exchange program at LUCA in Ghent, Belgium. Her writings include Shadowing the Silence: A Spatial Rewriting of Myths with Associate Professor Aslihan Senel (February 2023), an editorial for Women in Design and Architecture (Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies, 2022), Different Scales of Solidarity (MONU, 2021) and Tokyo Little Tokyo: Twin Spaces in Non-Identical Times (Manifold, 2019).