Panayiota Pyla
Panayiota I. Pyla, Ph.D., is an architectural historian and theorist, and Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus (UCy). Between 2002 and 2006, she served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Currently at UCy, she is also the director of Mesarch, a research lab focusing on the history and theory of modern architecture (http://mesarch.ucy.ac.cy/). 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. Pyla´s research has an interdisciplinary scope, spanning the disciplines of architectural history, cultural criticism, and environmental studies. Among her works is the edited volume, Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean. Cambridge: Harvard University Aga Khan Program, 2013; the JAE article “Crisis Spins” (February 2015); and the guest-editing of a Design and Culture special issue on “Sustainability’s Prehistories” (November 2012). Her article “Ηassan Fathy Revisited” received the Journal of Architectural Education best article award (2007).
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