ELENI PAPANASTASIOU
Visual arts
She is an architect, graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (2006). She holds a MSc. in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University, NY (2010) where she studied as a Fulbright scholar (2008-10) and a Gerondelis fellow (2008-9). She was awarded the Lucille Smysel Lowenfish Memorial Prize, Columbia University (2009). She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Architectural History and Theory from the National Technical University of Athens (2015). For her doctoral research, she was visiting scholar at UPenn School of Design, Philadelphia (2013), a researcher at Kahn Collection, Philadelphia (2013) and at Barnett Newman archives in New York (2013). Trained in photography at the International Center of Photography (Continuing Education ”Situational Portraiture”, 2010) and at the Cooper Union, NY, (Continuing Education ”Watercolor and Abstraction”, 2010). In 2010 she started her own Athens based office combining architecture (studies, competitions), visual arts (installations, photography, scenography) and teaching (at the School of Architecture, University of Patras, 2017-2019).