Lydia Xynogala

Born in Αthens, Lydia Xynogala is an architect working in Zürich and New Yοrk. Her architecture practice ALOS is named after a series of anagrams; they reflect the aggregation of her projects, methodologies and research trajectories. Working across formats and scales as a designer, writer and scholar her work gages architectural production in cultural narratives. Making buildings, interiors, objects, environments and exhibitions, the practice operates through built artefacts and their material affects.

Her current research focuses on the intersections of chemistry, forms of healthcare and the built environment and the tactics and by-products of material processes. Bypassing traditional dichotomies between the built and the natural, she focuses on their fuzzy togetherness and in assemblages of architecture and geology.

She has presented and exhibited her work at MoMA, Van Alen Institute, Center for Architecture (AIANY), LMAKgallery, Storefront for Art and Architecture and at various conferences by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Humanities Research Association, and History of Science Society among others. Her projects and writing have been published in Kerb Journal, Pidgin, Yale Paprica, A Public Space, Corriere della Sera and in a book by Rizzoli. Her research "The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk" was published by Princeton University.

Xynogala holds a Master in Architecture from Princeton University, a Bachelor in Architecture from The Cooper Union and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL. At Cooper she received the Thesis Prize, the Humanities Prize, and the Leslie Design Award. At Princeton she received a Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship for urban research in Αthens. She has taught at Columbia University, The Cooper Union, City College NY and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition, she has given lectures and coordinated workshops on material flows as they relate to the production of built environments in the US, Europe, and China. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) of ETH Zurich. Xynogala has recently received an award from the New Yοrk Foundation for the Arts.

Lydia Xynogala is a participant of The School of Infinite Rehearsals of Οnassis AiR 2020-21 and of the Tailor-made Fellowships program 2022-23.