is an architect and lecturer at ETH Zurich, currently pursuing her PhD at the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies. Her dissertation titled “Arcadia. Politics of Land and Nature at Greek Peripheral Landscapes” explores the peripheralisation of mountainous regions of Greece. Metaxia completed her architectural studies at NTU-Athens and ENSAPLV-Paris, earning her diploma with distinctions. She also holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Studies from ETH-Zurich. She has taught research and design at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD, collaborating with Professors Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, and co-authored the book achtung: die Landschaft (Studio Basel, 2015). Metaxia joined Architecture of Territory in 2015, where she has taught design studios on ARCADIA and European Countryside. She curated the thesis elective Projects on Territory employing silkscreen drawing as a critical representational tool, and exhibited the outcome in S AM, Basel (2018) and ZAZ, Zurich (2019). She is part of the FCL Project Territories of Extended Urbanisation and co-author to the book Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles, edited by Christian Schmidt and Milica Topalović (Birkhäuser Verlag, 2023).

markaki@arch.ethz.ch