Kyriakos Kyriakou

Assistant Professor of Practice
Live-Work Space in Athens, Greece. Working table with view of the Lycabettus hill in the background
A modern dining area with a marble-top table, two black chairs, a bowl of fruit, a potted plant, framed artwork on the wall, and a blue partition with vertical blinds in the background.
Modern office with dark marble floors, white walls, and ceiling lights. Theres a desk with chairs to the left, bookshelves behind, and a pink neon light in a geometric shape on the right wall, reflected on the floor.
Illustration of a modern building cross-section, showing various rooms such as bedrooms, kitchens, offices, and recreational areas with people working, relaxing, and cycling along a central corridor.
Architectural rendering of a minimalist dining room with a rectangular table, assorted colorful chairs, a few decorative items on the table, a white globe pendant light, white walls, and a view into adjacent rooms with wooden and tiled floors.
European Language Center. Chalkida, Greece. Aerial oblique showing existing building renovation prposal.
Appartment interior in Victoria Square, Athens, Greece. Custom cabinetry, restored wood floor, and exposed concrete column at entrance hall.
Appartment interior in Victoria Square, Athens, Greece. Custom pivot door with mirror and storage at entrance hall.
Aerial plan oblique for Syntagma Square and Municipal Market areas in Downtown Athens, Greece.
Design proposal for pedestrian street pavement and office building on Aeolou Street in Downtown Athens, Greece. Acropolis hill in the background.
Micropolitan America exhibition at the Mashburn Gallery, G. Hines School of Architecture at the University of Houston. View of gallery entrance.
Micropolitan America exhibition at the Mashburn Gallery, G. Hines School of Architecture at the University of Houston. View inside the gallery.

Kyriakos Kyriakou is an architect from Greece and an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA). He is a co-founder of the design practice ksestudio and currently practices in Austin, Texas.

Before joining UTSOA, Kyriakou was a visiting professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock and the University of Houston. He has practiced architecture in Paris, Athens, and New York, where he gained extensive experience leading multi-family residential projects. Through ksestudio, he has designed and built a range of residential, commercial, and educational projects in Greece, receiving awards in national and international architecture competitions.

Kyriakou was awarded the William Kinne Traveling Fellowship in 2010 and a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant in 2012 for the projects Micropolitan America and American Condominium Metabolism, respectively. His work has been exhibited at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Architectural League of New York. In 2022, he served as Exhibition Designer for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

His teaching, research, and writing explore architecture’s relationship to urban space and the effects of capitalist logic on the built environment, with a particular focus on architectural representation as a narrative form and the productive exchange between design and drawing.

 

EDUCATION

  • Diploma in Architecture (Architect Engineer), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), 2008

  • MSAAD Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 2010 

 

 

Three Athenian apartments: Resetting the free plan in the Athenian polykatoikia. Interior Experiments, Interiors, 14(1–3), 2024.

Micropolitan Urbanism. Texas design studios explore small town America. Conversation with Davis Richardson. Texas Architect Magazine, Volume 73, Issue 2 - Placekeeping. Mar / Apr 2023.

Afterschool Learning Hub, Divisare, January 30, 2020.

Unboxing New York. Actar Publishers, edited by Julia van den Hout. ODA New York, 2018.

Afterschool Learning Hub, Where We Learn: Reimagining Educational Spaces, Frame Magazine, edited by François‑Luc Giraldeau. ksestudio, 2022. 

Residence and work place in Lycabettus, Athens, Attica, DOMa Magazine, Greek Architecture Awards, 2022. ksestudio 2022. 

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AREAS OF INTEREST
  • Architecture and Urbanization
  • Representation
  • Adaptive Reuse
COURSES TAUGHT

Advanced Studio: Athens

Advanced Studio: Micropolitan America

Advanced Studio: American Condominium Metabolism

Comprehensive Studio

Architecture Theory - Contemporary Issues

Elective Seminars: Surveys of the Ordinary

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