Aslıhan Demirtaş completed her undergraduate studies at METU and her graduate studies at MIT. She is the founder of Khora Office—an expanded architecture practice based on research, art and ecology, first established in New York and currently operating in Istanbul. He then collaborated with Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei as the lead designer on the projects for the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, and the Miho Museum in Japan.
She has taught at Parsons at the New School, Bilgi and Kadir Has Universities and has lectured at GSD, Harvard, MIT, The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and American University in Beirut. Demirtaş is a Graham Foundation Grant recipient for her book Graft to be published by Salt. She served as a technical reviewer for the 15th Ağa Han Architecture Awards.