Dr. Metaxia Markaki
Metaxia Markaki is an architect, urban researcher, and educator holding a PhD from ETH Zurich, Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS). Her research explores processes of peripheralisation and the extended urbanisation of mountainous regions of Greece. Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Milica Topalović and Christian Schmid,is titled ARCADIA – Politics of Land and Nature: From Peripheralisation to Extended Citizenship (2024). It was part of the research project «Territories of Extended Urbanisation» and explored the contemporary urban transformations of Greek peripheral regions through critical urban theory, ethnography, oral history, and archival work. It received distinctions and was nominated for the ETH Zurich Gold Medal.
Metaxia Markaki earned her architecture diploma with distinctions from NTU–Athens and ENSAPLV–Paris and she holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design from ETH–Zurich. She has taught research and design at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD alongside Professors Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, and at the ETH Architecture of Territory with Professor Milica Topalović.
In addition to a wide range of essays and articles, Metaxia Markaki is the co-editor of the forthcoming Antipode Special Issue “On Peripheralisation: Radical Perspectives on Urban Life in Territories of Extended Urbanisation” and a co-author of «achtung: die Landschaft», published by ETH Studio Basel (2015).. In 2019, after winning first prize in Europan15, she co-founded the research and design practice Landscape-In-Between. In 2024–25, she was awarded the Schwarz Fellowship for Urban Architecture at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Metaxia currently continues her postdoctoral research as a research collaborator at ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, and has recently been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
Metaxia Markaki: publications