ΜΙΝERALIZATIONS
built environments and their local geologies

Lydia Xynogala
Thursday 14/5, 13.00 Post-grad Loft

This talk will unfold through a series of sites in Greece the US and Germany whereby architecture and geology are entangled. By a close inspection of built artifacts I will discuss how methodologies, philosophical concepts, geological knowledge and history can be synthesized in writing and imagining new stories. 
Lydia Xynogala (Dr.sc ETH) is an architect and writer working between Zurich and Athens; currently postdoc lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio and at the Academy of Art and Design in Karlsruhe. Her dissertation, on the history of mineral springs and baths in Greece, completed as a doctoral fellow at the gta Institute at ETH Zurich, was nominated for the ETH Medal and exhibited at gta exhibitions ETH Zurich, ZAZ Bellerive, and the Mendrisio Academy; currently preparing the manuscript coming out this fall by Park Books, Zurich. 

Her architectural practice, ALOS, has been supported by fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Onassis Foundation, and recognized with nominations and an award from the Greek Architecture Award. She has lectured internationally and her work and writings have been published at  Future Anterior, MIT Thresholds, Log, e-flux architecture, Manifest Journal, Domus, gta papers , wallpaper* among other journals and book volumes. Previously, she has taught studios and seminars at ETH Zurich, Columbia GSAPP, The Cooper Union, City College NY and RPI. Xynogala holds architecture degrees from Princeton University, The Cooper Union, and the Bartlett, UCL.

Within the framework of the course 
PELION CHŌRA: Dissecting and Reweaving a Mountain
By  The Observatory of the Countryside  
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki

For online attendance contact  memarkaki@uth.gr