Fatma Sultan Bozkurt is a landscape architect and architect whose works on landscape history, visual culture, and design. She graduated from the double major program in Landscape Architecture and Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where she also completed her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. Her master’s research examined landscape painting as an interactive medium in the transition from the concept of the garden to that of landscape, exploring the reciprocal relationship between artistic representation and spatial imagination. Since 2022, she has been a Research Assistant in the Department of Landscape Architecture at ITU, contributing to design studios, research projects, workshops, exhibitions, and international academic collaborations. Alongside her academic career, she has gained professional experience in both municipal and private-sector design practice, working on landscape, urban design, and public space projects.
Her academic practice is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that brings together landscape theory, environmental humanities, visual representation, and design pedagogy. Through both research and teaching, she is particularly interested in the ways landscapes are perceived, represented, narrated, and culturally constructed. Her scholarly work has been presented at international conferences and workshops, including IFLA World Congress, Turkologentag, and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), while her design practice has been recognized through awards in landscape architecture and urban design competitions. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture at ITU. Her doctoral research investigates nineteenth-century Ottoman landscapes through travel narratives and visual representations, examining how landscape was mediated, interpreted, and reconstructed through textual and visual practices in the context of cultural encounters, imperial representation, and the making of environmental knowledge.