Alper Aytaç turned to an age-old fold when he designed a very contemporary office in Istanbul.

There are no colorful wool likims, intricate iznic ceramic tiles, or glass evil eyes in the executive suit that Alper Aytaç of Aytaç Architects desgined for his older brother's Istanbul construction company, Aytac Insaat. Instead, the younger Aytac says, he looked first to the "Turkish pleat", which "animates the spacewhere a squeare plane meets a dome in Ottoman religous architecture". Then he considered the marble pleats carved by Giovvanni Bernini in 17th-century Italy - but Aytac's inspiration wasn't only architectural.

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