Kolatan & MacDonald have been based in Manhattan since 1988, where they both teach architecture at Columbia University. They examine, in a theoretical and practical way, alike, the incorporation of calculation and representation tools in architectural design. Their work is focused around a flexible and inventive method--"co-citation mapping". The most diverse factors and features of a project, transformed into computerized data, are subjected to a systematic combinatorial analysis, making it possible to conjure up conceptual affinities between the different categories. While retaining the placement and size of a building that has been demolished and no longer exists today, the Hoglu House is wrapped in an elastic membrane, offering a response to what the site has to offer--the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, from where it surveys the various bridges and the European shore. This membrane, which also provides ventilation, thus encompasses the compact block of the house as well as pockets of space both inside and out. Alternately narrow and deep, the boundaries resulting from the application of this membrane forge the spatial ambivalence of these pockets, and attempt to establish a specific coding of privacy.	(USA)
	Kol/Mac Kolatan (Sulan) (1956), Mac Donald (William J.) (1958)
	• Hoglu House Istanbul, 2000