Ioanna Theocharopoulou is an architect and an architectural historian. She trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London, UK and at Columbia University, and has worked in collaborative design practices in Athens and in New York. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. Her interests include the history and theory of interiors, and sustainable design and urbanization in the developing world. Theocharopoulou has participated in numerous academic conferences. Her publications include contributions to Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Production of Gender in Modern Architecture edited by Hilde Heynen and Gulsum Baydar (Routledge, 2005); Paradigmata, 9th International Architectural Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Greek Pavilion (2004), and to Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Pani Pyla and Hashim Sarkis, (Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008). She teaches at Columbia University, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and at Parsons The New School for Design.

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