Tarberak Architectural Studio

TarberAK* is an architectural firm founded in Yerevan, Armenia in 2019 by two architects (Karen Berberyan, Armen Hakobyan).

We are a fast-growing, energetic team with experience in Armenia and abroad.

We believe in the social role of architecture as it traverses every field of human activity.

We feel responsible to do it well.

We reject any particular style.

We reject predetermined ideas or approaches.

We believe architecture starts with an idea, not a form.

We try to create concepts that respond to real contexts and real issues.

We work on projects of every scale: urban, buildings, interiors.

We start every project with questioning.

We question sites, contexts, programs, sometimes even clients. We like clients.

We also do a lot of initiative projects without a client.

We experiment, break rules, debate, and that creates real value and defines us.

We often speak of "honest architecture", though oddly, it acquires a new meaning every time.

We write about architecture.

We teach architecture, however impossible it may be.

We created the NPATAK Foundation for alternative architectural education.

We care much about the environment we live in.

We care about the nature and about the human impact on our planet.

We have no awards cluttering our shelves—only ideas worth debating.

*tarberak in Armenian means option, version, or variant.

*tarber translates from Armenian as different.

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