Dr Nikolia Kartalou
Job title:
Teaching Fellow in Architecture
Office:
Room 2.3, 7-8 Chambers Street
Research Output:
Edinburgh Research Explorer linkBiography
Nikolia is a registered architect with particular interest in contemporary architecture within historic settings. She trained as an architect engineer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with an Erasmus exchange at L'École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette (ENSAPLV). She holds an MSc in Architectural Conservation and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh.
Nikolia has worked in architectural practices in Greece, France and the UK from 2011 to 2019. Since 2013, she has been delivering teaching in several programmes at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Focusing on historic urban environments, her research and teaching explore methodologies that address and trace correspondences between architecture, heritage, culture and society.
Nikolia is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Nikolia delivers teaching in several programmes across ESALA. Drawing upon her research and professional experience, she is developing interdisciplinary approaches that promote research-led teaching activities in architectural studios and create links between architecture, archaeology, theory, history and heritage.
BA/MA in Architecture
- Architectural Design: In Place
- Architectural Design: Any Place
- Architectural Theory
- Urbanism and the City: Past to Present
MA Architectural History and Heritage
- Architectural History and Heritage in Practice
MSc in Architectural Conservation
- Urban Conservation
- World Heritage
- Dissertation
MSc in Urban Strategies and Design
• Urban Project
MSc supervision
Research
Research
Nikolia’s research considers architectural conservation as a process of impermanence and fluidity aimed at adapting, converting and preserving existing buildings alongside the ecosystems they form and sustain. By enquiring into the ontology of buildings and places, her research focuses on the ways architecture comes into being, through generative and transformable processes. She employs various digital toolkits to understand the past and build spatial narratives, such as digital cartography with the aid of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and LiDAR technology.
