Ece Yetim is an architectural designer and academic based in Boston. She currently teaches at RISD’s MDes in Interior Studies: Exhibition and Narrative Environments program and at Wentworth Institute of Technology Architecture Department. She focuses on representational practices and uses architectural drawing as a political medium to explore the potentials of public spaces and the solidarity they can foster. Ece is co-founder of KOMM.unity, a women-owned design collective 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 design to  museum design. Prior to HYA, she worked at Studio Daniel Libeskind in New York on the Maggie Center Clinic Project. She also worked at Atelier Bow Wow in Tokyo and AKS Architecture in Istanbul.

Ece holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University 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), and Different Scales of Solidarity (MONU, 2021).


Feel free to connect: 
eceytm@gmail.com