Maria Tratsela

Teaching
At undergraduate level, she has so far taught the following courses, jointly or on her own:

– studio courses 2Σ4.04 and 2Σ4.05 ‘Landscape design of urban open spaces’, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, AUTh (from 2000 to date)
– theory course 2Θ3.43 ‘Landscape architecture, design of urban open spaces’ (since 2011).

At other AUTh schools:
– studio course 433^E ‘Technical Drawing’, School of Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment (2013 to date)
– the theory course ‘Landscape and Antiquities: Issues in the design and management of archaeological sites’ at the 5th Excavation School of the School of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy (2012, 2013).

At postgraduate level, from 2003 to date, she has taught the course TT.301 “Landscape Construction Techniques” in the AUTh Inter-departmental Postgraduate Programme in Landscape Architecture.

During a four-month sabbatical (3-5/2009) she took part as a visiting tutor in the teaching of the 1st and 5th years of undergraduate studies (MA) and of the postgraduate landscape architecture programme (MLA) at the
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh.

She has supervised seventeen diploma projects on her own at the AUTh School of Architecture. Two of them took part in a total of five national and European exhibitions, where they received awards.

She has supervised twelve undergraduate research theses and five master’s dissertations on her own in the AUTh Inter-departmental Postgraduate Programme in Landscape Architecture.

Scientific and research work
– She took part in four AUTh academic research projects (2000 – 2002), (2000 – 2003), (2004), (2008) and in two international forums/workshops (2012, 2013).
– From 1998 to date she has attended sixteen scientific conferences/symposia in total, presenting papers at twelve of them and speaking as an invited speaker at four.
– She took part in one exhibition (1999) and two architectural competitions (1999), (2013, Commendation).
– She has seven publications in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, three in scientific journals and four in books or festschrifts.
– She has served on the organising and/or scientific committees of four conferences/exhibitions/scientific meetings and on juries (3).

Architectural work
From 1997 to 2000 she worked with architecture and landscape architecture practices in Thessaloniki on private and public projects, such as the extension of a hotel, the design of open spaces in public parks and landscape restoration.

From 1998 to date she has designed, on her own, nine private open-space projects for houses (built), one children’s camp and one playground, and was part of the design team for two public archaeological park projects (2012-13, 2013-14) (under construction).