Ayse Eda Tarakci is an architectural designer based in Los Angeles. She acquired her MArch 2 Degree at SCI-Arc in 2022. She is currently working at Atelier Manferdini as an architectural designer and teaching at SCI-Arc as an assistant teacher. Prior to her studies in SCI-Arc, she received her B.Arch degree from Bilkent University with a degree of high honors.She believes that contextually conscious ideas, once explored with contemporary representation methods, are capable of creating change, and shifting the paradigm of architecture from what it was into what it can be. She is interested in exploring the expanding grounds of architecture where it meets arts and virtual media.