SOPHIA VYZOVITI Associate Professor University of Thessaly, School of Engineering, Department of Architecture Pedion Areos, 38334 Volos, Greece +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 Liane Lefaivre. She has also taught at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 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 12/4/2018 .