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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