SOPHIA VYZOVITI

Associate Professor University of Thessaly, School of Engineering, Department of Architecture Pedion Areos, 38334 Volos, +30 2421074235 +30 6945854727 [email protected] [email protected] sophiavyzoviti.com

SYNOPSIS

Architect, researcher and educator, Sophia Vyzoviti, holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology where she developed Emergent places for urban groups without a place: Representation, explanation, prescription doctoral thesis supervised by Alexander Tzonis and . She has also taught at Aristotle University of , University of Cyprus, National University of Singapore, Royal College of Art –IDE, and Delft University of Technology. Sophia has been a fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation Greece and awarded prizes in architectural design competitions such as Europan and ARES. Her more renowned publications include three books on form-generation methods employing deployable systems; Soft Shells: Porous and Deployable Architectural Screens, Supersurfaces: Folding as a method of generating forms for architecture, products and fashion and the best-seller Folding Architecture: Spatial, Structural and Organizational Diagrams.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Vyzoviti, S. (2017) The Talent Agent: Pure, Archaic and Absolute, Flat Out, Vol 2, pp:63-66

Vyzoviti, S. (2017) Μικροκατοικία – Άτλαντας για αρχιτέκτονες (Microdwelling – Atlas for Architects) Thessaloniki, University Studio Press

Vyzoviti, S. (2017) Shell Performativity as a Tool for Urban Action, in Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, Edited by Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages and Susana Couceiro da Costa, Taylor & Francis Group, pp: 195–200

Vyzoviti, S. (2017) in Daouti M. ed The students of UTh designed the Polytope bench, a multipurpose seat made of worn- out table tops

Vyzoviti, S. (2016) Expedient shelters in #This Is A Co-op, La Biennale di Venezia -15th International Architecture: National Participation of Greece, pp:61-63

Vyzoviti, S. (2016) Reflexive Indoor Camping in Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main (DAM) ed 150 Innovative Housing Projects and Short Term Accommodation for Refugees - Catalogue of Berlin Award 2016, Heimat in der Fremede, p 055

Vyzoviti, S. (2016) in Cho Mi-Ho ed Feature: Architectural Prototype, Architecture and Culture No 421, Seoul, pp:30-45

Vyzoviti, S. (2016) Ambient and Augmented Architectural Screens, in Tixier, N. & Remi, N. Ambiances Tommorow, Proceedings of the 3rd Ambiances International Congress - Volume 1, pp: 512-517

Vyzoviti, S. (2016) in Rozi A. ed Simplicity: Transformable Screen for the Scenic Acts of Ambiances Tomorrow / Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Vyzoviti, S. & Remy, N. (2014) Acoustically Efficient Origami Based Partitions for Open Plan Spaces – Developping a Design Tool in Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp: 487-494

Vyzoviti, S. (2014) Spontaneous Landforming ιn Zavraka, D. (ed.) Urban Blur, Thessaloniki, CND Publications, pp:67-72

Vyzoviti, S. & Sotiriou, J. (2014) Descriptive and Generative Models of Crumpled Sheets in Voyatzaki Maria (ed.) What’s the Matter? Materiality and Materialism at the Age of Computation - Proceedings of the ENHSA/EAAE International Conference, COAC, ETSAB, ETSAV, Barcelona, Spain, 4-6 September 2014, pp:521-532

Vyzoviti, S. (2013) The Depth of Surface: An evolutionary paradigm for digital architecture in Duyan, Efe and Güngör, Ayşe (eds.), Creativity, Autonomy, Function in Architecture -Proceedings of ARCHTHEO’13 III. International Conference of Theory of Architecture, Meimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4-6 December 2013, pp:284-292

Vyzoviti, S. & De Souza, P. (2012) Origami tessellations in a continuum: Integrating design and fabrication in architectural education in Voyatzaki, Μaria and Spiridonidis, Constantine (eds.), SCALELESS SEAMLESS: Performing a less fragmented architecture and education - Proceedings of the ENHSA/EAAE International Symposium on Integrated Planning Processes, Munster School of Architecture, Munster, Germany, 15-17 November 2012, pp:165-175

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