Walking, Waiting, Writing with Rocks
I’m an architect and artist from Crete, Greece, based between New York and Athens. My work explores the intersection of cultural heritage, ecology, and femininity—often through installations, performances, text-based works, and architectural research. I’m particularly drawn to rituals of care, slowness, and fragmentation, and how these can become tools for spatial storytelling and reimagining collective memory.
I currently teach at Columbia University and Syracuse University, and have previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and City University of New York. My approach to pedagogy is closely tied to my artistic practice—both seek to create space for dialogue, reflection, and experimentation. Over the years, my work has been supported by institutions such as NARS Foundation, School of Visual Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Steven Holl Foundation, and Harvard Hellenic Foundation.
My projects have been exhibited internationally at venues including New York Live Arts, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Benaki Museum, 10th and 11th Biennale of Young Greek Architects, Architecture Triennale in Crete, Milan International Furniture Fair, and AIA Architecture Conference in Las Vegas. I’ve received awards such as the Gaudi Architecture Prize, Architecture MasterPrize, Faith & Form International Award, Greek Theater Festival Set Design Award, and DOMa Greek Architecture Mention.
I hold a Master in Design Studies (with Distinction) from Harvard Graduate School of Design, a Master of Arts in Architecture from Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a Master of Architecture (summa cum laude) from Polytechnic University of Thessaly. My professional experience includes work with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and MOS Architects. I am also the co-founder of Atelier Atthis, a woman-led interdisciplinary collective for architecture and scenography based in Athens.
Walking, Waiting, Writing with Rocks is a performative installation that unfolds slowly over time: a single person carefully arranges a mound of found rocks into linear, field-like formations across the floor. As each stone is handled, shifted, and placed, the act of writing emerges—not with ink or language, but through rhythm, repetition, and spatial inscription. The resulting formations stretch into space like unspoken text, becoming both language and landscape. The work explores time, labor, and the relationship between displacement and discourse through material and movement.
Rooted in ancient modes of markmaking and communal rituals, the piece connects human gesture with geological time. It transforms space not through construction but through attention and care. The act of rearranging the ground becomes a public ritual, foregrounding the often-invisible labor embedded in place-making and cultural memory. Using locally sourced materials, the work engages with ideas of reuse, fragility, and the regenerative potential of slowness.
A version of this work was recently performed and exhibited at the New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation in New York City. The artist’s studio was emptied and slowly filled with stones over several hours, open to the public. Later, during a group exhibition, fragments of the installation were reconstructed in the gallery alongside a projected video of the performance.
In other contexts, the act may unfold collectively, as a participatory workshop or shared ritual that opens the work to new hands, gestures, and temporalities. The piece could also evolve into site-specific instructions and drawings, or a traveling installation—each iteration shaped by the landscape and community that hosts it. In this way, the work not only responds to place but also inscribes it anew. At its core, Walking, Waiting, Writing with Rocks is an invitation to slow down, to witness, and to reconsider the spatial acts of inscription and erasure.