Burcu Kütükçüoğlu graduated from the Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1995 and received two master's degrees from Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona) and Middle East Technical University between 1996-1999. She worked in architecture offices between 1998-2004 and received awards in competition projects. She completed her doctorate in the Architectural Design Program at Istanbul Technical University in 2012. Within the scope of her thesis studies, she was at Columbia University (New York) with a Fulbright Doctoral Research Scholarship during 2007-2008 academic year, and at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) in the summer of 2009, and did postdoctoral studies as a scholarship holder at the Canadian Center for Architecture (Montreal) in 2016.

During 2021-22 and 2023-24 academic years, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and taught at Boston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology - School of Architecture and Design. Kütükçüoğlu was awarded associate professorship by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in 2023.

Her research and publication areas include modern architectural history and theory, visual culture studies, history and theory of photography, Mediterranean cultural landscapes, vernacular architecture and modern heritage. Kütükçüoğlu has been working as a full-time faculty member at the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University since 2012 and is the director of History and Theory of Architecture Graduate Program.