About
Gaye Bezircioğlu Senvenli is an architect, academic, and artist who integrates ‘drawing’ across various disciplines.
Architect
Trained in architecture, she works across scales, from urban studies to a single room or object.
B.Arch, Izmir University of Economics · MA, Newcastle University · PhD, Istanbul Technical University
Academic
Her doctoral research looked at drawing as a way of thinking. She teaches design studios at Izmir University of Economics.
Izmir University of Economics since 2013
Artist
Ink drawings and acrylic paintings of imagined places, slow-made objects and workshops, gathered as Line_gbs.
Garden studio, Urla
Everything begins with a line traced upon a surface.
The line guides, creates, and transforms. Through its evolutionary dynamics, it offers diverse perspectives—shaping new realities and enabling our presence within them. In essence, the line moves through time: existing in the present, promising the future, and carrying meaning from the past.
CV
- 2025Featured in Visual Art Journal, issue 37
- 2025Cover drawing, Ege Mimarlık, issue 128
- 2022Founded the garden studio in Kamanlı, Urla
- 2021PhD in Architectural Design, Istanbul Technical University
- 2013–Part-time lecturer, Izmir University of Economics
- 2012MA, MAAPs-D programme, Newcastle University
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- 2011Archiprix Türkiye, First Prize
- 2011B.Arch, Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design
Gaye Bezircioğlu Senvenli has been involved in a wide range of projects across various scales. She earned her undergraduate degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Izmir University of Economics (IEU) in 2011, where she has worked as a part-time lecturer since 2013, contributing to numerous design studios and academic initiatives.
In 2012 she completed her master’s degree at Newcastle University, within the MAAPs-D programme, focusing on urban-scale architectural studies. Her academic path later led her to the theoretical aspects of drawing, which became the focus of her doctoral research. She received her PhD in Architectural Design from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2021, with a dissertation on the cognitive processes involved in drawing.
Alongside her academic work, she produces interdisciplinary projects that merge drawing and art, often developed through her own workshops. She currently balances her role as a part-time lecturer with freelance workshops, where she pursues her ongoing interests in art, architecture and design.