Zühal Kutalmış was born in Cizre in 1968. She is originally from Afyon Sandıklı. Due to being an officer child; She completed the first school in different Anatolian cities and then graduated from Bursa Anatolian High School. In 1987, she entered the Department of Architecture at Trakya University.

 

She lived in Germany for 1.5 years after her graduation. Her first active working life began in 1993, at Creativ Bau, Germany as a project architect. In 1994 she returned to Turkey and worked in Sarıyer Municipality in 1994-2000. The years between 2000 and 2013 she took part in Kiptaş; The participation of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

 

She is highly specialized in both zoning planning and architecture fields due to her professional background.
In 2013, she started her free architecture works as a partner and founder of the” HASA” Reconstruction Planning Architecture Eng. Const.  She is the mother of four children; three girls and one boy.