Murat Tabanlıoğlu who is a member of RIBA, Chartered Member, Int’l. Assoc. AIA, studied architecture at Vienna Technical University and graduated in 1992. He founded Tabanlioglu Architects in cooperation with Dr. Hayati Tabanlioglu in Istanbul in 1990. Today his award winning practice is developing projects on four continents. He lectures at universities and various international platforms besides his atelier programs at Universities in Turkey. In addition to his national and international contributions as a jury member, such as at AIA and WAF, Murat served on the Master Jury for the 2013 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Along with several prize-winning projects, e.g. RIBA International Awards in 2011 and 2013 respectively for Loft Gardens and Bod rum International Airport, Beyazit State Library that is finalist for Mies Van Der Rohe Awards in 2017 and finalist for Aga Khan Architecture Awards in 2019, and several others.