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Join architect and historian Ioanna Theocharopoulou and architect Praxiteles Lykos in a discussion on Athen’s most distinctive building type, “polykatoikia”, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability.
Ioanna Theocharopoulou is an architect and architectural historian whose research focuses on cities, and on how the socio-material infrastructures that architects project, contribute to long-term transformations of the atmosphere, biotic habitats, and oceans. Most recently her teaching has focused on how architecture and its histories can offer insights for responding to the climate crisis. Her writing has appeared in numerous books and journals, and she has participated in and collaborated on curating and chairing several academic conferences. She is the author of Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens (London: Artifice, 2017 and Athens: the Onassis Foundation, 2018 and 2022). Her book formed the basis of an eponymous award-winning documentary film by Tassos Langis and Yiannis Gaitanidis (2021). Theocharopoulou studied at the Architectural Association in London (AA Diploma) and holds a Master’s in Advanced Architectural Design, and a Ph.D. in Architectural History from Columbia University. She has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the New School / Parsons School of Design and at Cornell University’s Architecture, Art, and Planning Department. Theocharopoulou teaches Art Humanities at Columbia University.
Praxiteles Lykos is an architectural designer with a decade of experience designing and building projects at a variety of scales. He is currently a Project Designer at Bernheimer Architecture, where he works primarily on affordable and market rate housing in the New York City area. He has extensive experience with the design of complex, mixed use developments, as well as high end residential projects. In addition to freelance design collaborations, he teaches part time at the Parsons School of Design. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.
