A family-run design & delivery studio bridging Los Angeles and Istanbul — built on a simple idea: the people who design a space and the people who deliver it should be the same team.
Architecture loses something in the handoffs — from the studio that renders it, to the firm that documents it, to the agents who source it. We removed the handoffs. One model, one team, one accountable partner from first sketch to final container.
Los Angeles designs. Istanbul delivers. One team, accountable end to end.
A licensed architect in Los Angeles, Berkay leads the design side of the studio — the digital twin, visualization, documentation, and the technology that lets one model produce everything a project needs.
He built ZARHA's method around a conviction: the gap between what gets designed and what gets built is a choice, not a law. Close it, and quality and cost both improve.
With two decades inside Turkey's manufacturing world, Özlem leads delivery — sourcing, custom fabrication, logistics, and the relationships that turn a specification into a shipped, installed reality.
She is the reason a material in the model can become a purchase order from a quarry owner or a 50-year workshop, not a faceless catalog — and the reason the quote holds at the port.
Designers and coordinators across Los Angeles and Istanbul — plus a vetted network of makers we treat as part of the team.
Behind them: a vetted network of 50+ manufacturers across 16 material categories — quarry owners, licensed factories, and family workshops we've worked with for years.
One source of truth, not a stack of files that drift apart. Everything reconciles to the twin.
We'd rather know the quarry owner than the catalog. Relationships make better buildings and better prices.
No finger-pointing across a handoff. The team that designs it is the team that delivers it.
Whether it starts with a render or a container of stone, we'd love to hear what you're working on.