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PANAYIOTA PYLA

PYLA PANAYIOTA
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Department of Architecture
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Panayiota I. Pyla, Ph.D., is an architectural historian and theorist, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. Pyla holds a Ph.D. in the History-Theory of Architecture and Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA, 2002), and a Masters of Science in Architectural Studies (1994) also from MIT, where she was awarded the Outstanding Graduating Student Award. She received a Professional Degree in Architecture from Rensselaer (1991), where she was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Before her current position, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002-06) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard (2003-04).

Pyla´s research has an interdisciplinary scope, spanning the disciplines of architectural history, cultural criticism, and environmental studies. Her work has been presented in international conferences, chapters in edited volumes, and scholarly journals such as: Design and Culture (2012), Journal of Architecture (2011), Grey Room (2009), Journal of Planning History (2008), and Journal of Architectural Education (best article award, 2007). Her article, “Ηassan Fathy Revisited: Postwar Discources in Science, Development, and Vernacular Architecture,” in the Journal of Architectural Education 60:3 (2007) received the best article award. Pyla is also the editor of the volume Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean. Cambridge: Harvard University Aga Khan Program, 2013

 

CV

RESEARCH LAB WEBSITE -  http://mesarch.ucy.ac.cy/
 

•  History-theory of modern architecture and urbanism

• Social Dimensions of Urban development in 20th Century

•  History-Theory and Politics of Environmentalism and sustainability in Architecture

•  Cultural heritage, memory and conflict in postcolonial Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean.

and Lab website: http://mesarch.ucy.ac.cy/
 

Pyla, Panayiota, Ed. Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean. Cambridge: Harvard University Aga Khan Program, 2013.

Pyla, Panayiota, Ed., “Sustainability’s Prehistories,” Design and Culture 4:3, November 2012, USA, Berg Publishers

Pyla, P., “Crisis Spins,” Journal of Architectural Education (March 2015):8-12. DOI:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10464883.2015.987068#

Pyla, P., and Özkaya, B.T., “Culture of Crisis,” Architectural Histories 1(1):17,  2013, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ah.ay

Pyla, P., “Gossip on the Doxiadis 'Gossip Square': Unpacking the Histories of an Unglamorous Public Space,” Architectural Histories 1(1):28,  2013.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ah.bb.

§ Earlier version published as “‘Dedicodou Meydane’ Hakkinda Dedicodular: Siradan Bir Kamusal Alanin Tarihini Ortaya Dokmek,” Dosya 27, Special issue on "Architecture and Everyday Life” (December 2011): 19-24.

Pyla, Panayiota, “Beyond Smooth Talk: Oxymorons, Ambivalences, and Other Current Realities of Sustainability,” Design and Culture 4:3, November 2012, pp. 273-278.

Pyla, Panayiota and Petros Phokaides, (2011), “Ambivalent Politics and Modernist Debates in Postcolonial Cyprus,” Journal of Architecture 16:6, 2011, pp. 885-913.

Phokaides, Petros and Panayiota Pyla. “Postcolonial Utopias in the Context of Cyprus.” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series 231.  [Publisher: IASTE] 2011, pp 17-37. Also at http://iaste.berkeley.edu/workingpaper/10-volumes-222-238-the-utopia-of-tradition.html Abstract also published in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 22.1 (2010): 79-80.

Pyla, Panayiota. “Planetary Home and Garden: Doxiadis’s Environment-Development Politics.” Grey Room 36 (Summer 2009): 6-35. [Publisher: MIT Press]

Pyla, Panayiota. “The Many Lives of New Gourna: Alternative Histories of a ModelVillage and their Current Significance.” The Journal of Architecture 14:6 (December 2009): 715-730. [Publisher: Routledge with the Royal Institute of British Architects].

 

Pyla, Panayiota. “Counter-Histories of Sustainability.” Archis Volume 18, Special issue on sustainability, titled “After Zero” (December 2008): 14-17. [Publisher: Archis]. § Also translated in Russian in PROJECT International 22 , Moscow, 2009. [A-Fond publishers]

Pyla, Panayiota. "Back to the Future: Doxiadis’s Plans for Baghdad.” Journal of Planning History 7:1, (February 2008): 3-19. [Publisher: Sage]

Pyla, Panayiota. “Ηassan Fathy Revisited: Postwar Discourses of Science, Development, and Vernacular Architecture.” Journal of Architectural Education 60:3 (February 2007): 28-39. [Received Best Article Award] [Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell]

Pyla, Panayiota. “Rebuilding Iraq, 1955-58: Modernist Housing, National Aspirations, and Global Ambitions.” DoCoMoMo Journal 35.  (September 2006): 71-77. [Publisher: Docomomo International]

Pyla, Panayiota. “Historicizing Pedagogy: A Critique of Kostof’s A History of Architecture.” Journal of Architectural Education. (May 1999): 216-225. ] [Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell]

Pyla, Panayiota. “Gray-areas in Green Politics: Reflections on the Modern Environmental Movement.” Thresholds 14. (Spring 1997): 48-53. [MIT Press]