Elisavet Kiourtsoglou
Elisavet Kiourtsoglou
Position: Assistant Professor
Academic field: Design and Sound Studies
ΦΕΚ Γ’ 2309/15.09.2022
Email: ekiourtsoglou@uth.gr
Tel.: +30 24210 93055
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Research Interests:
Analogies between Arts and Sciences, Theory and History of Architecture, Architectural Design, Sound Studies
I am an architect-engineer and researcher with a deep interest in the intersections of architecture, music, the arts, and the sciences. I hold a diploma in Architectural Engineering (University of Thessaly) and a postgraduate degree in the History and Theory of Architecture (NTUA). I completed my PhD at Université Paris 8, where I was awarded scholarships from the French Government, the Leventis Foundation, the Michelis Foundation, the Foundation for Education and European Culture, and the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). My Phd dissertation on the relationship between music and architecture in the work of Iannis Xenakis received the Prix de la Recherche from the Académie d’Architecture in Paris (2017).
My research focuses on the role diverses epistemologies of sciences shape spatial design. I dive into music and sound relation to architecture. I am the author of the monograph On Rhythm in Architecture: Iannis Xenakis (Nefeli, 2022) and co-editor of The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place (Leuven University Press, 2022, with Angeliki Sioli). I have published in international peer-reviewed journals and have taught in several architecture schools in France. Since 2019, I teach in the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries.
I approach architecture critically, as a field in constant dialogue with media, history, and technology. I am particularly drawn to writing and storytelling as means of producing theory and rethinking how knowledge about space is constructed.