Anastasia Gkoliomyti
Lecturer
Office:GHKH A202
E-mail: agkoliom@kean.edu
Courses Teaching activities
ARCH 1301 Representation I
ARCH 2203 History 3
ARCH 4107 Studio 7
ARCH 4207 History 7
Research Field
– Architectural Fieldwork
– History of Architectural Drawing
– Discourse of Japanese Architecture
– Interdisciplinarity
– Embodiment
Biography
Anastasia is a Lecturer in Architecture at Michael Graves College, School of Public Architecture at Wenzhou-Kean University. She is an architect engineer (NTUA 2018) and a MEXT Scholar with a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2019-2024). She is also a Research Fellow in Art Education at Tokyo Gakugei University (2024-2025), where she organizes workshops and exhibitions on interdisciplinary collaboration within the humanities.
Her forthcoming book project, tentatively called “Building Conversations: Japanese Architectural Fieldwork as Discourse,” offers a comprehensive overview of Japanese architecture’s discursive model of fieldwork, a method that has been employed by Japanese architects to construct a position towards the state of the built environment through situated observation, drawing, and embodiment rather than language.
She is interested in the ways that architects collaborate with ethnographers, artists and historians “out there”, inviting literal and metaphorical shifts from the rigidity of disciplinary ways of being. Her design practice research revolves around illuminating issues within the discipline that disallow sustainable and equitable practices in the built environment.
As a practitioner and curator, Anastasia has garnered recognition in international competitions with first and second prizes. As an academic community leader, she facilitates digital embodiment platforms for underrepresented communities in Japan with the platform Interlab Japan and globally as an invited organizer for DocTalks.
Education Background
PhD, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2024)
Integrated Masters in Architectural Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (2010-2018)
Publications
– PhD Dissertation: Recontextualizing Architectural Practice through Japanese Fieldworks on the Built Environment, 2024, Tokyo Institute of Technology
– Book: How is Life? Designing for Our Earth, TOTO Publishing, 2024, with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Manabu Chiba, Tsuyoshi Tane, Seng Kuan, Hirao Siena.
– Book: Ugly Architecture? With Gabriel Kogan, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Masamichi Tamura, CIP, 1-134, 2022
– Chapter: A. Gkoliomyti, “Tokyo Domesti-city Overflow: From the Fusuma to the Window” in MUTATED INWARDNESS: Sense of Ownership and Territoriality in Urban Japan, Architectural Borders and Territories, Routledge, Forthcoming 2025
– Chapter: Opening Architectural ‘Black Boxes’: Inquiries on Geometry, Site, Propriety and Patronage as Ecologies Surrounding Design Media, Who is the Architect? Edited by Building Diversity, Danish Architectural Press, May 2023
– A. Gkoliomyti, D. Giannelos, K. Fetsis, B. Malusa, “Winning in a Losing Game: Witnessing the State of Industrial Heritage Management in Post-Crisis Greece through the Ladopoulos Adaptive Reuse Project,” TICCIH 2024 conference paper, Forthcoming October 2024.
– A. Gkoliomyti, “Architectural Discourse in Japanese Fieldworks on the Built Environment“, Architectural Institute of Japan, 2025
– A. Gkoliomyti, “Towards a Non-neoliberal design paradigm: ISHINOMAKI 2.0 – a network of grassroots community building, CA²RE, Community for Artistic and Architectural Research, TU Delft, vol.3, 55-72, 2022.
– A. Gkoliomyti, Y. Tsukamoto. “Post-Disaster Memoryscapes: Architectural Mediums as Practices of Care,” Ardeth, 8, 77-95, November 2021
– A. Gkoliomyti, Y. Tsukamoto. “Collections of the Present in the 20th Century and Beyond: Tokyo’s Fieldwork and Guidebooks as Curatorial Practices,” European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 3(1), 9–32, December 2020
Honors & Awards
2024-01: Emerging Young Greek Architect Project 2024: Adaptive Reuse of the Ladopoulos Former Paper Mill Industrial Complex in Patras, Greece
2023-09: NEO Research Fund for International Academic Collaboration: Interlab Japan, Workshop at Nara Women’s University
2023-05: 2nd Prize, Good Design Marunouchi Exhibition Proposal for “Details of Us” (September 2022)
2021-09: 1st Prize, National Architectural Design Competition for the Adaptive Reuse of the Ladopoulos Former Paper Mill Industrial Complex in Patras, Greece – Team: Work_Experiments and A. Gerousis (September 2021)
2019-2024: MEXT Scholarship Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture and Building Engineering, Tsukamoto Laboratory
2016-08: 1st Honorable Mention Cellular Canopy, International Competition – New Science City in Cairo, Egypt, with Petras Architecture
2014-02: 2nd Prize A Vessel for Argo, Museum, National Competition, Volos, Greece, with Petras Architecture
Curatorial Work
Collecting-Constellating-Contemplating, An Art-Based Research Journey “Out There,” Funded by JSPS, Kasahara Laboratory, Tokyo, July 2024
How is Life? Designing for Our Earth, TOTO Gallery MA, Tokyo, 2022-2023
Details of Us: Diversity in Architectural Representation, 2nd Prize, Good Design Marunouchi Exhibition Proposal, 2022
Academic Service and Research Activity
DocTalks. Organizer, 2024 –
Interlab Japan, Founder and Seminar Organizer, 2022-2024
