Eken Design has a sensitive holistic approach to our design practice. We believe that design should be beautiful, contextual, and intentional.
As an architect and graphic designer partnership, we bring complementary perspectives to our work—approaching each project with a shared commitment to beauty, environmental stewardship, and thoughtful use of resources. Our practice explores the potential of each project by seeking to balance aspirations for beauty with an acute awareness of budget, context, and impact.
Our work is rooted in a deep understanding of our clients, coupled with a respect for each project’s unique environment, history, and cultural context. We take a collaborative research-based approach, studying a place’s nature and narrative with the goal of creating designs that are timeless, personal, and highly functional.
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Design Principal, Co-FounderCaitlin has a diverse background in floral design, graphic design and art direction. A student of Pratt’s Visual Communication Program, she found herself working for fashion houses of various sizes for a few years before branching out on her own.
With a love for flowers and design, Caitlin takes a leading role in the Landscape Design projects as well as the clients that come to Eken Design for branding and motion design.
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Principal Architect, Co-FounderKerim is a registered architect in the state of New York. Kerim received his BS in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Mathematics from John Hopkins University and holds an MArch from the Pratt Institute, where he was the recipient of the Winnemore Endowed Graduate Scholarship.
After receiving his graduate degree, Kerim collaborated with Urban Movement Design on the winning submission for the 2012 Young Architects Program (YAP) MAXXI in Rome. He continued his professional development as a Project Architect at Robert AM Stern Architects and Morris Adjmi Architects where he gained a broad range of experience in various project types including mixed-use multifamily residential buildings, commercial spaces, master plans and product design.
Kerim also teaches studios and seminars at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at Pratt Institute and in the undergraduate department at the Michael Graves School of Public Architecture at Kean University.
Collaborators: Thomas Wensing, Christina Osermiear (OA), Josh Kayden, Esra Aras, Charles Raimando, Brian Chu (A05), Nestor Sanchez (The Good Eye), Dale Martin, Kristiana Morales, Jordan Kopstein, Jonathan Arcila-Garcia, Andrew Collins, David Tockman (Tulip King)
Portrait photography by Pierre Vicarini