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Ertuğ Uçar was born in Antalya in 1971. He spent his childhood in Antalya and his youth in Ankara. He received a Master’s degree from the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University. In the title of his thesis, he tried to combine two subjects he was interested in: writing and architecture: “A Sketch on the Verbal Representation of Space.” Since his graduation, he has been practicing architecture. Uçar has been living in Istanbul from the beginning of the second millennium. He enjoys sketching urban spaces, especially Istanbul, and loves drawing cats, ferries, and winding streets.

His published books include: Dream Bugs (Alef, 2008), 17 Types of Loneliness (Alef, 2007), A Place to Watch the World (YKY, 2010), Lost in the Forest (Alef, 2014) and A Pair of Foot (Can, 2016), In the Footsteps of Woolf (Can, 2017), Night Journey (Can, 2017), A Place to Watch the World (Can, 2020), The Map of Separation (Can, 2020), Chef Sugar (Mundi, 2022), and Building Within a Building (İş Bankası, 2024).