STUDIES
Diploma in Architecture, Florence School of Architecture 1972 - 1977
International Center for the Study of Cultural Heritage - ICCROM
1977 - 1978
Architecture Seminars Prague, Paris, Lisbon 1980 - 1989
Interdepartmental Program of Postgraduate Studies in Architecture - Space Design at NTUA 2004 - 2005
Ph.D. in Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) 2008
Studies in Theater (Grotowski - Theatre, Roula Pateraki) 1980 - 1982
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Ministry for the Environment, Urban Planning and Public Works - Department of Architectural and Urban Studies 1984 - 1987
Ministry of Culture - Archaeological Resources Fund 1987 - 1989
Teaching “Reuse of Spaces” at AKTO Schools (Undergraduate-Postgraduate Department) 1990 - 2010
Teaching fellow at NTUA School of Architecture 2003 - 2005
Founding and active member of the "Center for Architecture" 1993 - 1995
Urban Void 1995 - 2005
Nomadic Architecture 2005 -
Freelance Architect 1988 - 2012
Painting, Poetry, Performance, Walking Art, Actions in Public Space, Gender Approach, Artistic Research - Spatial Practice 1980 - 2021
CONCISE CURRICULUM VITAE
Eleni Tzirtzilaki is an architect – community artist.
She organizes actions through a composite art that includes walking, poetry, painting, writing and performance.
She studied Architecture in Florence.
Her PhD thesis, at the School of Architecture of the Athens National Technical University, is entitled “Displaced Urban Nomads in the Metropolises. Contemporary issues on moving around, the city and the space” (Nisos 2008).
She participated in the group “Urban Void” (Astiko Keno, Futura 2006). Her work is showcased in the book Nomadic Architecture. Walking through Fragile Landscapes (Futura 2018).
She created the “Nomadic Architecture Network” in 2005. The bodies create –each time starting from scratch– a shifting space-time at a specific site, crossing the borders. The process takes place through the collaboration of nomadic subjects, their involvement with each-other, their involvement with the residents and with the creation of “ephemeral communities.”
She has realized walking art actions, such as Procession in the Traces of Habitation, Crossing Elaionas, Water Girls-Water Boys (at Kifissos river), In the Traces of Guerilla Fighter Nitsa-Eleni Papagiannaki– Electra. Walking there…, Revolution Bodies, among others. The house as fabrichas a gender approach.