Lydia Xynogala

Lydia Xynogala is Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Her work explores relations between sites, material properties and cultural narratives at various scales. They are articulated in buildings, experiments and writings. After working on educational, housing, and infrastructural projects at offices in New York, London, and Barcelona, she formed her independent practice in 2013. Recently completed projects include interiors for a gallery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a ground-up residence on a Greek island and a townhouse renovation in London.

In 2016, Xynogala received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been presented and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Van Alen Institute, Society of Architectural Historians, Chemical Heritage Foundation, History of Science Society and ACSA, among other venues.

In her book The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk (2013 Princeton University) she explores architectural proposals based on chemically induced processes. Her designs and writings were featured in Domus, Wallpaper, A Public Space, Kerb Journal and Pidgin. Xynogala has taught at The Cooper Union, City College of New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Princeton University, where she was also the designer of the Shanghai Global Forum.

Xynogala holds a Master’s degree from Princeton University, where she received a Stanley Seeger Fellowship; a BArch from The Cooper Union, where she was awarded the Irma Weiss Thesis Prize for exceptional creative potential, the George Leslie Design Prize and the Humanities Prize; and a BSc from the Bartlett, UCL.