Alexandra Vougia

Alexandra Vougia (she/her, Thessaloniki, 1983) graduated from the AUTh School of Architecture in 2007 and received an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design from GSAPP, Columbia University, in 2008. In June 2016 she was awarded a PhD by the Architectural Association for her thesis Estranging Forms: Modernist Abstraction and De-Alienating Tactics. Her research focused on interwar German modernism and analysed architectural abstraction as a strategy against social alienation.

Since 2009 she has been a founding member of the collaborative practice FATOURA, an architecture and research group working across a range of scales. She has worked in New York and Athens and has taught at the Architectural Association and the University of Westminster. She is an Assistant Professor at the AUTh School of Architecture, where she teaches History and Theory.