farasi.zine
issue 05 / Winter 2026

Guest editor: Gregory Tsantilas

Drawings, text and graphic design: Gregory Tsantilas

Farasi.zine #5 reflects on the topic of trial and error as a methodology that shaped DISTIGMO Magazine and allowed mistakes to guide its practice. In Greek, error translates to láthos (λάθος), which etymologically implies a hidden meaning or a deviation from the expected path. Through this concept, trial and error loses its binary character and mistakes do not define right or wrong; they act as agents that actively influence and shape the creative process.

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Gregory Tsantilas, Dipl. Architect UTH / MAS UD ETHZ is the founder and editor of DISTIGMO, an independent publisher and magazine investigating architecture’s many dimensions. The first issue, Trial and Error, focuses on mistakes as an instrument that can reveal what would otherwise remain hidden. In 2024, he co-founded confectdissect, a design practice exploring objects as functional prototypes, where research and making evolve in parallel. Between 2016 and 2025, he contributed to projects of various scales and functions, ranging from competitions to execution in Berlin and Zurich, and worked for offices including Burkhalter Sumi and Burkard Meyer Architekten. Since 2021, he has been curating an online archive of architectural references, creating dialogue among international practitioners, and in 2024 he initiated Paranarratives, an AI-based study in image-making capturing moments in spatial experiments. Gregory has been invited to lecture and lead workshops at ETH Zurich, TU Berlin, TU Munich, KΙΤDepartment of Architecture, Syracuse University School of Architecture and other institutions. He is currently based in Zurich.