Aspassia Kouzoupi, PhD,  is an architect and landscape planner/designer, holding degrees from AUTH, ETH Zurich (MAS in Landscape Architecture), and the National School of Fine Arts, Athens. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly and was a postdoctoral fellow at NTUA (2019–2022) supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. Her research explores diachronic mapping, infrastructural palimpsests, and Mediterranean socio-natural ecosystems in the context of the Anthropocene. A founding member of "Sculpted Architectural Landscapes: Golanda + Kouzoupi," her work—spanning teaching, research, and built projects. Founding member [summer 2025] along with Penelope Papailias, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology of the transdisciplinary LandED [Landscape Empirical Diachronic] observatory ARCH & IAKA-HASA UTH.

Landscape infrastructure

Mediterranean torrentscapes 

participatory landscape approaches

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2022 - 2024, « La Diagonale du Désir » .
Position: invited researcher /scholar/ educator
Funding Body: TALM: Ecole supérieure d'art et de design (Tours, Angers, Le Mans / France) .

2019 - 2022,   "The Long Walls Zone: Participation to the Structure of the Urban Landscape of the broader Metropolitan Area of the Greek Capital, and the Athens-Piraeus Connection"
Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher,  School of Arcitecture NTUA, supervisor: Professor Emeritus Konstantinos Moraitis
Funding Body: This research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme «Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning» in the context of the project “Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers - 2nd Cycle” (MIS-5033021), implemented by the State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ).

2018 - 2022, "Study for the design of the entrance/exit to the archaeological site of Sounion."   as Contractor Designer.   Employer: Ephorate of Antiquities of Eastern Attica, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Approval of the Study by the Central Archaeological Council. 

Architectural Design III-V Α: Re-Constructing the Soil: Designing the Urban Public Space
Introduction to Architecture II
Landscape Theory: Natural, Urban and Rural landscapes
Urban Ecosystems

Undergraduate Diploma Projects Supervision

Reconfiguration of the Hydro Identity of the Xirias Torrent.

The torrents of Volos Anavros and Krausidonas

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Learning Garden. Nature as an educator.

HEMPHIBIA: landscape revitalization reintroducing hemp cultivation at Vegoritida's lakefront

Geometric Encounters at lake Karla

Spatial-temporal intersections. Cultural fragments coexisting with the Western walls of Thessaloniki.

[PAST]IME ACTIVITY: networking of outdoor recreation practices along Loudias River

Recostruction of the Tripoli railway station.

Versions of Public Space in Taurus, through tracing Participatory Design methods.

sfyra, reuse of the Glavanis and Kazazis Machine Shop "Sfyra"

Introducing temporary dwelling structures

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Baths at Lefkada in the island of Ikaria - the experience of water

Designing the redevelopment of the canals in the Philippi Peatland.

Walking towards the village of Kallio. A Topology of Coexistence.

New bathing facilities at Thermia in Drama. The renegotiation of the bathing life within the limits of the existing bath community.

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Structuring the connection of Monemvasia’s grid of public spaces with the sea

Chalandri’s Stream.

Dynamic systems of a ruined village.

Self- sufficient installation of a cultivation

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Conversation with the hill

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Network of Structures for the use of the visitors of Lake Karla.

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Undergraduate Special Research Topics Supervision

Learning from Gevgelija

Sampling.

“friluftsliv”: the Scandinavian Landscape Approach

Remains, flows and depositions of materials

Rode to striation

The quarry as a landscape "machine": empirical measurement of the limestone quarry in the Municipality of Karla .

Itineraries into the network of Monemvasia.

The transformation of the red gleam into landscape: observing the chronicle of approach to planet Mars.

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Landscape's recompose through the train's motion. Focusing on the railway line Lamia - Tithorea.

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The dynamics of time in map creation. The example of ruined village “Palios Platanos”.

Human interventionism and nature. Approaching the natural landscape of Chalandri’s stream or in other words “the stream’s affairs”.

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Kouzoupi A. (2021): “Infrastructural Palimpsests as Urban Landscape Design Tools.” In: Glossary of MATERIART_/ Materiart_Art_and_Science_of_Materiality_in_Architectural_Design_Education. Ankara: TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of Architecture. European Erasmus+ Program 

Kouzoupi A. , (2018): «Πλυντήρια Μεταλλεύματος στη Λαυρεωτική" [Metal Washeries in Lavreotiki] . In: Panetsos G., Manis T.. [eds.] Αφετηρίες Τόμος ΙΙ [Afetiries Volume II] Athens: Δομές,[DOMES]  pp 101

Kouzoupi A. (2018): «Σηματοδοτώντας ένα Τοπίο ως Παλίμψηστο Αρχαίων και Σύγχρονων Υποδομών» [Signalizing a Landscape as a Palipsest of Ancient and Contemoprary Infrastructures]  In: Tsetsis S. . «Μνήμη & Αστικό Φαινόμενο: Πολεοδομικές Πολιτικές για την Προστασία και Ανάδειξη Ιστορικών Ιστών, Μνημείων και Τόπων. Ευρωπαϊκή Εμπειρία και Προοπτικές.» [Memory and Urban Phenomenon: Urban Planing Politics for the Safekeeping and Highlighting of Historic Tissues, Monuments, and Places. European Experience and Prospects." Athens: Μίλητος

Kouzoupi A. (2018): “The Concept of Map in the Homeric Odyssey”. In: Tentokali V. and Boundas C. V [eds] :“Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari”, London: Rowman & Littlefield

Kouzoupi, A., Syropoulos, J., Skiadaresi, E., Anagnostopoulou, A. M., & Moraitis, K. (2025). The Athens–Piraeus Parallel Long Walls Zone in Greece: Urban and Social Dimensions of an Infrastructural Palimpsest. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 27(5–6), 457–482. 

Orlis I., Gavrilou E. Kouzoupi A. (2023): Learning from Gevgelia. In: UoU scientific Journal #5 special issue ‘Borders/  ed: Mike Devereux.  University of Alicante.Pp32-45 

Tzortzi N.J., Gauita L., Kouzoupi A.(2022): Sustainable Strategies for Urban and Landscape Regeneration Related to Agri-Cultural Heritage in the Urban-Periphery of South Milan. In: Sustainability 2022, 14, 6581. 

Kouzoupi A. (2022): Re-visiting representations of ‘nature’ and city through the Long Walls zone. in: UoU scientific Journal #3 special issue ‘Representations’/ ed : Ozan Avci. University of Alicante.Pp. 112-125 

Ασπασία Κουζούπη (2019): Αρχέτυπα. [Archetypes] In: ΔΟΜΕΣ, διεθνής επιθεώρηση αρχιτεκτονικής, [DOMES international architecture review] Θεματικό Τεύχος Αρχέτυπα, [Special Issue Archetypes] 05/2019, pp. 59

Kouzoupi A. (2018): “Experiential cartographies:an educational approach to the landscape initiated by Homer’s “Ulysses” In: Dejeant-Pons M. “Landscape and Education” / 21st Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, Topea: Council of Europe, Ministero per I Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Regione Calabtia, pp.185-187 

Tzortzi N., Guaita L., Kouzoupi A. (2020): “Cultural and Agri-cultural Heritage ‘Contamination’: the case of Milano South Periphery.”. In: Gambardella C. [ed] World Heritage and Contamination International Forum. Benecon University, Unesco Chair of Cultural Heritage, Landscape, Territorial Governance

Aspassia Kouzoupi (2019): söyleși [interview] Betonart / Conctrete, Architecture and Design. 61/2019, pp 65-68