简介

Lydia Xynogala is a designer and educator. She holds an M. Arch II from Princeton, a B. Arch from The Cooper Union and a BSc from the Bartlett (UCL). At Cooper Union she was the recipient of the Irma Giustino Weiss Prize for exceptional creative potential, the George Leslie Prize for Design, and the Humanities Prize for her paper on Luis Bunuel’s interiors. At Princeton she received the Stanley Seeger Fellowship for urban research in Athens. Her work has been exhibited at ACSA Open Cities in Seoul, the Center for Architecture in New York, Tongji University, Shanghai and at the Colegio de Arquitectos in Valencia. She has presented her research and projects at the Van Alen Institute, RH Gallery NY, the Society of Architectural Historians, Chemical Heritage Foundation and History of Science Society. Selected publications include Kerb Journal (RMIT Australia), Pidgin, Wallpaper and Loftlife. Most recently her project The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk was published by the CAU; it proposes material, architectural and programmatic alternatives for the Russian post-industrial city. Xynogala has worked as a designer and project manager in a number of practices in London, Barcelona and New York and was the program and design coordinator for the inaugural Princeton Global Forum / Resilient City exhibition in Shanghai. Since 2012 she has been teaching at Cooper Union undergraduate and graduate design studios and conducting seminars on the intersections of chemistry and the built environment. Her project House in Achladies is currently under construction.