Research Expertise and Interest

architecture, housing, spaces of production, flexibility, uncertainty, labor

Research Description

Georgios Eftaxiopoulos is an architect. He is assistant professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal at the architecture and urban design practice EO. Previously, he practiced in Belgium and Switzerland and, most recently, he has taught at the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association, and the Aarhus School of Architecture.

Georgios’ work focuses on the relationship between architecture and economy. His research and teaching investigate historical and contemporary spaces, processes and networks of extraction and accumulation. He was awarded his PhD from the Architectural Association with his doctoral project, Stásis: A Critique of Flexibility in Architecture, theorizing the notion of flexibility and discussing its use and misuse in architecture. Georgios is a member of the research collective The City as a Project and, among other, his texts have been published at Perspecta, AAFiles and OASE. Across his practicing career, he has developed and collaborated on several architectural, urban and territorial projects in Europe and Asia.