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Ferhan Azman

architect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ5444276 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ferhan Azman is a Turkish born architect working in London, New York City, Los Angeles, Nice and Istanbul.

Career

After working on Canary Wharf she founded Azman Architects in 2003, basing the headquarters of her studio in the Hoxton district of London.

She designed the London home of Isabella Blow, which the New York Times called "a playhouse for a mad hatter". Alexander McQueen commissioned her to design his house and to create his flagship store in Conduit Street London. This was followed by the Vivienne Westwood celebrating thirty years of fashion, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Barbican Gallery.

Ferhan Azman is a visiting tutor at the Architectural Association.

She won the competition managed by RIBA Competitions for the RIBA Bar.

Editorial summary

“Ferhan Azman” enters the record as architect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ferhan, Azman and architect can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ferhan, Azman and architect.
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“Ferhan Azman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ferhan, Azman and architect provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5444276. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ferhan Azman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.