Metaxia Markaki

Metaxia Markaki

Dr.

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Metaxia Markaki is an architect, urban researcher, and educator holding a PhD from ETH Zurich in Landscape and Urban Studies. Her research focuses on the dynamics of extended urbanisation and peripheralisation in the mountainous regions of Greece. Metaxia earned her architecture diploma with distinctions from NTU–Athens and ENSAPLV–Paris and holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design from ETH–Zurich. She has taught at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD alongside Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, and at the ETH Architecture of Territory with Milica Topalovic. In addition to a wide range of essays and articles, Metaxia is the co-author of two books, 'achtung: die Landschaft' (2015) and 'Territories of Extended Urbanisation' (2023).
In 2019, after winning first prize in Europan15, she co-founded the research design practice, Landscape-In-Between.

external page Markaki Metaxia. “Expropriation and Extended Citizenship: The Peripheralisation of Arcadia.” InExtended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles, ed. Christian Schmidt and Milica Topalovic, Birkhauser Verlag, Zurich, 189-226, 2023.

external page Markaki, Metaxia, and Christian Schmid. "On Peripheralisation. A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari." In RC21 Athens, Ordinary Cities in Exceptional Times. Urban Political Podcast, 2023.

Schmid, Christian, Metaxia Markaki, and Lindsay Blair Howe. "On Peripheralization: Radical Perspectives on Urban Life in Territories of Extended Urbanisation." Antipode (2025).

Forthcoming

Markaki, Metaxia. "Who Owns the Land? On Research Poetics and Performance as Ways of Knowing." In Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies, pp. 97-129. gta Verlag, 2024.

external page Markaki, Metaxia. "Kentos: Socio-ecologies of care." Frontiers of Architectural Research 11, no. 6 (2022): 1047-1061.

Topalović, Milica, Metaxia Markaki, Karoline Kostka, Fabian Kiepenheuer, and Lukas Wolfensberger. ARCADIA: A Journey into the Pastoral. Studio Report. ETH Zurich D-ARCH Architecture of Territory, 2017.

Herzog, Jacques, Pierre de Meuron, Lisa Euler, Metaxia Markaki, Charlotte von Moos, Martino Tattara, and Günther Vogt. Achtung: die Landschaft. Lässt sich die Stadt anders denken? Ein erster Versuch. Lars Müller Publishers, 2016.