Burcu Arkut

Burcu was born in 1986 in Istanbul. She went to American Robert College. She studied Architecture in Istanbul Technical University. She took part in many workshops and some architectural contests. Her summer internships included various areas like kitchen design company, shopping mall construction, architectural offices, advertisement agency, architectural newspaper.
In 2008 August, she started working in emre Arolat Architects. Meanwhile, in December, she began designing canvas bags and named it BEZTORBAM. Burcu decided to study her Masters Degree in Istanbul Bilgi University Achitectural design programme with a 100% scholarship. since she has been so into Fashion&Design, she took some Fashion&Design lessons at Istanbul Moda Academy in 2010. In March 2010, she participated the Smart Geometry 2010 Workshop and Seminars and represented Turkey in this international platform of parametric design. In September 2010, she represented the project that was done in "Digital Representation Techniques" class with Onur Yüce Gün and Ebru Arkut Ulu at the eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) Conferance in Zurich. After doing these, she went to professional life.
Since August 2010, she has been working at Metex Design Group in architectural and interior design projects.
Along with all these, in February 2012, she and her friend İpek Bankeroğlu began to establish their own design studio, Designroom. They call it "a room where we can do the things we would like to."
Burcu is interested in different types of design and believes that the different idea and aesthetics are very important. Fashion, art, photography, cinema, dance, different cultures, travel, shopping, good food, art-architecture magazines, parametric design, personal development are some of her interests.
She believes that when design is made with love and fun, better results come out. She tries to provide herself a working environment in which she can use all of her talents and produce beautiful things with pleasure.
Also, she is a blogger. http://www.girlielittlethings.blogspot.com/