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.