Faculty

Profile

Eirini Tsachrelia is an Int’l Associate AIA and she has been teaching undergraduate and graduate design studios at Parsons School of Constructed Environments, New York City College of Technology, and the Spitzer School of Architecture.

She is the Director of Educational Programs at the Steven Myron Holl Foundation (SMHF) Summer Architecture Residency since 2020 where she has been instructing since 2017. Eirini has served as a panelist and as juror at numerous New York architectural education institutions including the 2016 'Pamphlet Architecture' design competition Jury. Eirini has curated art and architecture exhibitions for international art festivals and galleries, including 'Art in Progress' in Greece, and 'Immersive Gallery' in New York. She received her Diploma in architecture with honors from Patras University, School of Architecture in Greece, and her M.S Degree in Advanced Architectural Design with honors from GSAPP Columbia University in New York.

Degrees Held

M.S AAD Columbia University New York

Professional Affiliation

Int’l Associate AIA since 2013

Licensed architect in the European Union since 2008

Well AP accredited since 2021

Member of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI)

Recent Publications

Eirini has co-designed and curated the work "Sustain/Ability", the official Greek participation for the 21st Triennale in Milan "21st Century. Design after Design", in collaboration with Nicholas Karytinos. In 2017 the work was acquired by 'T' Space, and is permanently installed on the grounds of T2 Reserve in Rhinebeck, New York.

Research Interests

My philosophy and work depart from the observation, shaped through my professional experience and interdisciplinary interests in art/architecture, that architectural and urban design are practices of design evolution. I see the Study of architectural design as a persistent unfolding of form/ tectonics/ context through which architectural intelligence may emerge. In teaching architectural design, within the wide discipline of architecture, I’m looking for those pedagogical tools dialectical/ dialogical/ geometric that can engage the designer in such Study, aiming to reveal what otherwise remains hidden; echoing Heraclitu’s “Nature loves being concealed”.