Gizem Ozturk is a Postgraduate Architect and Historic Conservationist born in Nicosia/ Cyprus in 1984. In 2002 she started her higher education in Leipzig/Germany and completed “DSH” at Studienkolleg/Universitaet Leipzig in 2004. She graduated from Anglia Ruskin University / UK with a degree of BSc (Hons) Architecture in 2007. Right after her undergraduate degree she carried on with her postgraduate degree of MSc (Hons) Historic Conservation and completed the course at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education in association with Oxford Brookes University / UK in 2009. After her education in the UK she returned back to Cyprus and worked as an architect at their family construction company. In 2010 and 2011 during summer months, she also worked as a conservationist architect at Salamis Ruins Archaeological Diggings of Ankara University in association with Eastern Mediterranean University. Currently she works as a full time lecturer at Department of Interior Design /Near East University, there she lectures design studio classes and a theoretical class and also she carries on with her PhD Degree. Her ambition is to widen her knowledge about innovative design and research on architectural heritage of Cyprus’ main cities and to cover tangible and intangible sociocultural layers hidden behind their history and architecture.
