Metaxia Markaki is an architect, urban researcher, and educator holding a PhD from ETH Zurich, Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS). Her research focuses on the dynamics of extended urbanisation and peripheralisation in the mountainous regions of Greece. Her doctoral dissertation, titled ARCADIA – Politics of Land and Nature: From Peripheralisation to Extended Citizenship (2024), explored—through ethnography, oral history, and archival work—the contemporary transformations of Greek peripheral regions. It received distinctions and was nominated for the ETH Zurich Gold Medal.

Metaxia earned her architecture diploma with distinctions from NTU–Athens and ENSAPLV–Paris and holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design from ETH–Zurich. She has taught research and design at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD alongside Herzog and de Meuron, and at the ETH Architecture of Territory with Topalovic.

“Who Owns the Land? On Research Poetics and Performance as Ways of Knowing” in Bathla, Nitin (ed.), Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies, gta Verlag (2024), 97 - 129.    

Arcadia. A Journey into the Pastoral. Topalovic, Milica, Metaxia Markaki and Karoline Kostka (ed.). ETH Architecture of Territory (2017)

Countryside – Province – Periphery: Mountainous Regions, Agricultural Areas, and Islands

Architecture of Territory and Territorial Governance: Theory, Research, Mapping, Design

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Introduction to Architecture I
Introduction to Architecture II
EKTOS POLIS: Researching the Urban otherwise: Wanderings through Extended Urbanisation

Markaki, Metaxia. “Climate Care. Not Green Development.” NSL Newsletter: Umwelt im Wandel / Transitional Environments, no. 51.   

Bathla, Nitin, Alex Daxboeck, Martin Dumond and Metaxia Markaki. “The Architecture of the Grid” (with Nitin Bathla, Martin Dumond, Alex Daxboeck). ARCH+ magazine: Planetary Urbanism: The Transformative Power of Cities, no. 223, 96-99.    

Herzog Jaques, Pierre de Meuron, Lisa Euler, Metaxia Markaki, Martino Tattara and Charlotte von Moos. achtung: die Landschaft. Laesst sich die Stadt anders denken? , Lars Mueller Publishers, Zurich.  

Topalovic Milica, Metaxia Markaki and Karoline Kostka (ed.). ARCADIA. A Journey to the Pastoral. Studio Report. Architecture of Territory, D-ARCH ETH Zurich.         

Markaki, Metaxia. "Poetics of an Error: Erroneous Words for an Imaginative Unknowing of the Periphery.” In Gregory Tsantilas, ed., D:STIGMO, Trial and Error, 2025, 8-17.   

Markaki, Metaxia. “Arcadia. An environmental tale between stillness and movement.” in Sklavounos, Ionas, Marilena Mela, Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, and Nikos Magouliotis, eds. Under the Landscape: Emerging Alliances of Worlding, Hatje Cantz, 2025, 147–161.    

Markaki, Metaxia. “Who Owns the Land? On Research Poetics and Performance as Ways of Knowing.” In Nitin Bathla, ed., Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies. Zurich: gta Verlag.    

Markaki Metaxia. “The Peripheralisation of Arcadia: Expropriation and Extended Citizenship.” In Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles, ed. Christian Schmidt and Milica Topalovic, Birkhäuser Verlag, Zurich, 189-226.     

Markaki Metaxia. “Journey to Uninhabited Mountains.” In (Dis)Continuities of Mointainous Space, ed. Faidon Moudopoulos, LAND+WATER, Athens.  

Markaki Metaxia and Ferdinand Pappenheim. “Hirtzbrunnenquartier, Basel, 1924 – 1930.” In Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden: Positionen und Modelle zur Bodenfrage, ed. Florian Hetweck, Lars Müller Publishers, 331-332.      

Markaki, Metaxia. “Dialogues.” In What is the future of Architecture II, ed. P. Grandy, CIG Press, Berlin, 95-96.    

Markaki, Metaxia and Dimitris Koutsiampasakos. "The Travelling Grocer.” trans magazin: Time, no. 42, 46-49.    

Markaki, Metaxia. “Land of No Authorship”. OASE: Authorship, no. 113, 147-153.     

Markaki Metaxia. “Kentos. Socio-ecologies of Care.” Frontiers or Architectural Research, 11(6), 1047 – 1061.
Awarded the journal’s Best Paper Award 2022.           

Markaki, Metaxia. “The Tree We Hurt.” ARCH+ magazine: The Great Repair, 250, 110-116.      

Markaki, Metaxia and Simona Ferrari. “Landscape In-Between. A River and a Backyard.” Barbara Journal: Landscape no. 2, 79-85.    

Markaki, Metaxia, Ferdinand Pappenheim, Milica Topalovic and Marc Angélil. “Projects on Territory: Dichte Geschichte” (with Ferdinand Pappenheim, Marc Angelil, Milica Topalovic). NSL Newsletter: Verdichtung / Density, no. 43.      

Markaki, Metaxia. “Neunzen Tage Ohne Denken”. trans magazin: Kritik, no. 31, 58-61.    

Markaki, Metaxia and Andreas Papadadonakis. “Defining the Urban Void in Three Actions: Stage, Arcadia, Court.” Architecture in Greece, no. 47/2013, Athens.    

Markaki Metaxia and Christian Schmid (guest ed.).  “On Peripheralisation. A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari.” Urban Political.     

Markaki, Metaxia. Interview. In Urbano magazine: Piazze d’Italia, no. 4.