Sulan Kolatan

Sulan Kolatan teaches elective studios in the Master of Architecture program at Weitzman School. She is the Principal of KOL/MAC LLC, an architecture and design firm she co-founded with William J. Mac Donald. Her firm has been internationally acknowledged as a leader in digital architecture and technologically innovative design.

Sulan holds a MS in Architecture and Building Design degree from Columbia University and a Dipl.Ing. Arch. degree from the RWTH Aachen, Germany. She has taught at the GSAPP at Columbia University from 1989-2005 and served as Acting Chair of the Department of Architectural Design and Building Technology at the Technical University in Darmstadt in 2002-03. In addition to serving as a Visiting Chair and Critic at a number of distinguished universities, she frequently lectures and speaks at academic and professional conferences nationally and internationally. She has received numerous international academic and professional honors. Her work continues to be shown and published worldwide, notably, at MoMA; the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Museum; the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris; the Barbican Art Gallery London; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Mori Contemporary Art Museum Tokyo. Many of these institutions hold KOL/MAC LLC projects in their permanent collections.