NEKTON DESIGN: architects, urbanists, and designers.

The term Nekton derives from the Classic Greek term for free-swimming aquatic animals, essentially independent of wave and current action. NEKTON Design’s body of work sets out an agenda that moves independently from the current commercial trends by avoiding the pitfalls of pigeonholing itself into a specific architectural typology or movement. 

NEKTON Design was founded in 1999 by Jeffrey Turko and Gudjon Thor Erlendsson initially as a pure design research studio that has developed into a studio undertaking more commercial works.  NEKTON’s work spans a variety of scales in architecture, from small installations and urban furniture projects to private family houses as well as large scale of urban design and master-planning, all the while keeping a consistent approach and output of architectural vision. This vision consists of the formal interest in the relationships between structure & space / ground & landscape and the effects produced for the user to interact with and within.  This strategic relationships deployed with in NEKTON involves juxtaposition as well as blurring of the boundaries between form/volume and surface.

In 2008 Nekton received second prize for Turf City, an international urban design competition in Iceland and was long listed for the 2008 Young Architects of the Year Award (YAYA).