Kubra Baskapan (Istanbul, 1990) is a Turkish architectural engineer and designer with diverse interest and background. She completed her bachelor’s degree in interior architecture in 2012 and her M.Sc. in structural engineering at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University as the first interior architect to hold an engineering degree in construction project management from this school. She published her thesis in 2019; ‘Causes of Delays in Overseas Construction Projects of Turkish Contractors’.

She is specialised in ‘hospitality projects’, ‘furniture production’, and ‘the international design and manufacturing industry’. She has been working in different countries, mainly the Middle East and North Africa, for more than a decade as an architect. Working in different countries, such as Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Maldives, and Morocco allowed her to experience different design styles and gain knowledge about differences and similarities in art, architecture, and culture in different parts of the world. Documenting architectural styles and different production techniques, doing research on the impact of the design industry on society and the economy in her travels, following different design and art events in the region are her passions.

Since 2008, she has been involved in different art studies, interested in painting, photography, sculpture, music, and culture. Early stages of her career she involved in different traditional restoration and manufacturing techniques; she worked on different restoration projects as a student, architect and contributed to the furniture relief and restoration project in Yildiz Palace (Istanbul) for a year, where the last Ottoman Sultan Abdelhamid had a personal carpentry workshop. Although she works on mostly modern-style projects in her professional career, she still works on traditional arts and furniture production techniques and does illustrations for restoration projects.

She is also doing furniture and industrial product designs and has an international design award for children toys design. After working in the Middle East her product design became more classical and appreciated the cultural heritage, craft, and different styles. During her career she made designs for high end residential and hospitality projects. Islamic architecture and regions mathematical patterns affected her designs in terms of material and form.

She is based between Doha and Istanbul. She is currently working as a design and project manager at Pera Interior, which is a Turkish high-end furniture manufacturer and international contractor operating worldwide. Analyzing the relations between industries and design is a passion for her; ‘architecture and design are engineering of aesthetics’ is her motto; she believes engineering and art cannot be separated.