Academic staff

I joined LSBU School of architecture in 2019 and appointed MArch History and Theory module leader (SL 0.5). I previously taught at the Leeds School of Architecture and London MET and I was invited speaker at institutions such as, Architectural Association, Bartlett, Sheffield School of Architecture, ESALA Edinburgh, EPFL Lausanne, CCEA Prague, Onassis Foundation, the Hellenic League for Human Rights, the European Humanities University in Vilnius, the ENSA-Versailles Summer School at Isfahan Iran.

I approach my History and Theory teaching at LSBU as a research topic which discusses architecture within political and feminist theory.

From 2006-2016, I was the Director and founding member of the independent School of Architecture for All (SARCHA). This ten-year educational experiment attracted EU funding and was designed as a follow-up to my post-doc research as a Fulbright scholar at Princeton. Its focus was open educational structures that involve the wider community in the design and implementation of city projects. These included CCR Athens Gerani, a city resources reset pilot project commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry for the Environment, shortlisted at The Resourceful Architect international competition in London (Royal Society of Arts, May 2011). Polypolis, a role-playing social game on the ‘in common’ administration of the human, natural and physical city resources, presented in Oslo (2016), Rome (2011) and at the British Council’s International Architecture and Design Showcase at the London 2012 Festival. Demos by SARCHA open competition and discussion at the London 2013 Festival of Architecture upon invitation by the British Council.

Being a registered architect (RIBA/ARB), I am familiar with architecture practices and consider them as areas of research. In specific, my professional experience as international competition organiser and juror was coupled with organising the 6th International Conference on Competitions (Leeds 2016), authoring The Competition Grid book (RIBA publishing 2018) and participating at the 2018 AJ panel on competitions.

I was recently invited to create my professional profile and discuss gender experiences in architecture practice for the forthcoming (2021) Digital Archive of Greek Women Architects, a project by the Greek Architects Association funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

My LSBU March History & Theory lectures are transcribed into my forthcoming book Modalities of Thinking: An Ecology of Architecture Stories and Practices (Ubiquity Press 2023).

Courses taught

Architecture - MArch

Postgraduate Research Supervision

Current

Awarded in the last 5 years

Evidence to public body

Mar 2021

Member of Fulbright Committee

Greek Fulbright 2021-22 Visiting Research Students Awards Selection Committee member,

Athens, Greece

Reach and Impact

Digital Archive of Greek Women Architects (Oct 2021)

Architecture Journal (AJ), UK (May 2018)