Anastasia Gkoliomyti

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer in Architecture at Wenzhou-Kean University

This exhibition is the result of an interdisciplinary experiment conducted by researchers at Kasahara Laboratory at Tokyo Gakugei University. The focus of the exhibition involved expanding education in a larger context, utilizing both artistic practice and considerations from architectural research to devise ways to use the natural and built enviro...

Relational Architecture is a manifesto pointing towards the direction for architectural design innovation in the 21st century: The virtual to become a prototype for constituting currently possible identities in the real world. New internalized materialities of belonging can become accessible due to the affordances of the virtual. Relational Archite...

This essay focuses on how the standardized way of drawing architecture and creating models limits the ability of the architect to be an active agent in local community issues, in advocating for diversity and equality and in fostering a positive relationship between practitioners and end-users. This issue will be argued not to be new, but deeply ing...

The research focuses on community-driven guerilla interventions following the Triple Disaster or 3.11 to generate a new conceptual framework for design to include repair. The first part of the research criticizes the neoliberal project’s limited scope and failure to include a bigger picture of worldly processes. The second part of the research expl...

This essay enters the Covid-19 pandemic activated discourse by drawing parallels to the architectural response to the 3.11 Disaster in Tohoku, Japan as a lens to reflect on architecture’s broader response-ability towards matters of human displacement, collective trauma, loss, and memory. It explores the notion of burn-out through the scope ofdisast...

Cities worldwide are transforming at an unprecedented speed. The technological advances of the 20th century have instilled significant transformations for urban centers around the world. In this context, the preservation of local communities is becoming a growing challenge for authorities worldwide. In times of such shifts for cities, the relations...