Loukia Tsafoulia

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Loukia Tsafoulia registered architect TEE-TCG and PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), received her Post Professional Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design (MSAAD) from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University with a fellowship from the Gerondelis Foundation. She obtained her professional degree and 1st Masters in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), spending one year as an exchange student at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

 

She is the co-founder of PLB studio based in New York as well as a visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York City College of Technology, Architectural Department of Technology and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons, The New School. She is also a founder partner of Fabula & Syuzhet, a new experimental platform based on the production of body and space embellishments. 

 

From 2012 till 2013 she led the Architectural Section for Studio Dror, managing a variety of architectural and urban design projects as well as architectural competitions. She has been also employed by LEESER Architecture in New York City and she has collaborated with SO-IL / Solid Objectives for the construction of Sukkah City pavilion proposal in New York. She also worked with Jorge Otero-Pailos on the research and design development of a proposal for the 'Ancient' Acropolis Museum. From 2006 to 2009 she joined the Laboratory of Urban Environment, Department of Urban and Regional Planning  (NTUA) as a researcher for the Collaborative Environmental Regeneration of Port Cities Eleufsina Bay and the Mines of Aegean & Industrial Heritage Record programs. In parallel, she worked as an architect for Karakosta E. Architectural office in Athens for a couple of years of intense architectural practice.

 

Her work has been published and exhibited in international design fairs, the London 3d print show and ICFF in New York amongst others.