2020

Storefront for Art and Architecture Exhibition and Benefit

One of the 26 architects invited by Storefront for Art and Architecture,  in New York, to participate in their exhibition and benefit, titled Re-Source. Commissioned to create new works with leftover and surplus items from Storefront’s office, gallery, and storage spaces. The exhibition is designed by LANZA Atelier. 

Writing for e-flux architecture and exhibition at ETH Zurich

Reflections from the Cave, writing and drawing for Confinement a collaborative exhibition taking place both online at e-flux Architecture and on site at gta exhibitions, ETH Zürich.

Greek Architecture Awards 2020

House in Achladies awarded “First completed word by a yound architect”  in the awards organized by Doma presented at the Benaki Museum.
Thank you to the jury: Valerio Olgiati, Emilio Tuñón and Oliver Thill. 

Onassis AiR: The School of Infinite Rehearsals

Lydia Xynogala selected to participate in the artistic group research residency program in Athens in the thematic area ecologies.

Wunderkammer

Comission to design an exhibition of a large scale cabinet of curiosities 

Desired Landscapes Magazine

Issue #3 publishes Lydia Xynogala’s photo essay Landscape with__________

Yale Parpika

Lydia Xynogala writes about Manhattan Schists and Schisms (Rock encounters now and then) for the issue Wild. 

Exhibition: Hourra L’Oural!

Curating and designing an exhibition...coming soon.

2019

Lecture: Aggregates

 Lecture by Lydia Xynogala at HSRM Hochschule RheinMain

Take the Waters!  Workshop Wiesbaden- 21-25/10/2019

Lydia Xynogala teaches a workshop at HSRM Hochschule RheinMain, invited by Professor Holger Kleine. 

ETH Zurich, gta Institute

Doctoral Fellowship, Research Project: Take Care!

Group Show New York- 27/3-24/5 2019

Return of La Belle Jardiniere is  in The Green Life,  at LMAK Gallery. Press release here. Artist Talk on May  11.

Greek Institure of Architects in New York- 05/2016

Lydia Xynogala presents her practice and recent projects at the event Bluepring of a Practice at the Greek Institute of Architects in New York. 

Nanjing University School of Architecture

Lydia Xynogala presents her book and research, The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk

2018

Book Publication Rizzoli

House in Achladies is included in the book Houses by the Shore: At Home with the Water, Lake, Sea. By Byron Hawes and Oscar Riera Ojeda, published by Rizzoli New York. 

Wallpaper* Magazine 

Ennismore Gardens House is featured at Wallpaper Magazine*

UCLA Rumble 

Lydia Xynogala is invited juror for two days of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design end of the year all-school review and exposition. Thank you Andrew Kovacs!

A Public Space Magazine

Lydia’s writing, “Aggregates, Amalgams, Allotropes (How can Matter tell a Story?)” was included in A Public Space Magazine Issue No.26,  themed Public Space.

2017

Storefront for Art and Architecture Exhibition

Commisioned to create a souvenir for Storefront’s model show, Souvenirs: New New York Icons.  Lydia also gave a presentation of the work titled Exploded Fortress of Solitude at New Iconicities, as part of It’s Happening! Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks.

Recent Press: House in Achladies

Wallpaper* Magazine, Domus, Archdaily, Dezeen, Architecture Digest, Casa Viva, Yellowtrace, Lifo, Interview, Label Magazine, Elle Decor, This Paper, Divisare, Arquitectura Viva, Archisearch, Domes

Teaching at Columbia University

Lydia Xynogala is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.

Teaching at City College CCNY

Lydia Xynogala  is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture.

2016

New York Foundation for the Arts Award

Lydia Xynogala receives a Fellowship in Architecture, Design and Environmental Sculptures from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). More information at the NYFA website.

Columbia University GSAPP Lecture  

Lydia Xynogala gives the lecture Chemical Rapports, invited by Tei Carpenter for the students of the Core 1 Design Studio.

2014

The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk Pamphlet by Princeton University SOA

The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk is published by Princeton University School of Architecture, CAUI books. Series Editor, Mario Gandelsonas. 

Kerb Journal

The Dark Ecology of Magnitogorsk is featured in Kerb Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 20, Speculative Stories: Narratives in Landscape Architecture,  published by RMIT University.