Born in 1986. After completing a Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Kültür University, he successfully graduated from the Master’s program in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan (2015). Alongside his studies, from 2011 to 2016, he worked as an architect in various companies:

• Francesco Adorni Architetto (Milan)

• Dome + Partners (Istanbul)

• Abin Design Studio (Kolkata, India)

• Engineering Idea (Tbilisi)

In 2016, he founded TIMM Architecture, where he remains the director to this day. Since 2016, he has also been a board member of the Urban Experiments Group. He has won a competition for the project of the Visitor Center of the Tbilisi Botanical Garden. He has received awards and honorary mentions in architectural competitions in Montenegro, Turkey, France, and Georgia.

Since 2019, he has been engaged in teaching as a visiting lecturer at Ilia State University and at the Faculty of Architecture and Art Studies of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

Notable publications by N. Lekishvili include:

• “Revitalizing Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses,” Istanbul, 2009

• “Socialist District Exposed,” Lisbon, 2017

• Interview with architect Oliviero Godi, Milan, 2013

• Milan Design Week (2014), where together with Francesco Adorni and Stéphanie Gauthier he presented the exhibition “Point and Line”

In 2019, his work “Museum of Gravestones” was exhibited at the exhibition space of Mimar Sinan University.