Final review for Principal Palmyra Geraki's advanced research studio "Living & Working"(ARCH 650/850) at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a critic on several final reviews at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: second-year BArch core studio (ARCH 310), coordinated by Sam Schuermann (12/11); "Urban Planning as Public Policy" (ARCH 749 /URBPLAN 857), taught by Carolyn Esswein (12/13); third-year BArch core studio (ARCH 410), coordinated by Karl Wallick (12/13); "Mono-Poly-Dollar" (ARCH 650/850), an interdisciplinary research and design studio, operating at both the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the University of Colorado Denver (CUD), and taught at UWM by Lindsey Krug (12/15).

Principal Palmyra Geraki was an invited critic at the final review for "Women's Work," a seminar taught by Kindon Mills at the University of Chicago. Other critics included Leslie Johnson, Lukasz Kowalczyk, Cecilia Charney, and Luke Joyner.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was featured on Archinect as one of the recipients of Mellowes research funding at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was invited to participate as a critic in the final presentations for Architectural Research Methods: Settlement, Capital, Modernism, an advanced research seminar taught by Maura Lucking at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 2023-2024 UWM Activism Fellow Andy Lee also joined as a critic.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was an invited critic at the fall semester final review of a fourth-year year-long studio (ARCH 417) on designing a new campus for The School of Architecture (formerly Taliesin). The studio was co-taught by Kindon Mills, Steven Pantazis, Andy Tinucci, and Michal Ojranowski at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Critics included TsoA students, TSoA president Chris Lasch, as well as IIT faculty Leslie Johnson, and Jonathan Miller.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was invited to participate as a critic in a novel review format for Architecture Thinking I: World Architecture from First Societies to the Early Modern (ARCH 102), a first-year core history course taught by Maura Lucking at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was invited to participate as a critic in the midterm review for A Bigger Splash (ARCH 465), a fourth-year elective studio proposing new aquatic facility along the Chicago lakefront taught by Barbara Materia at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was invited to participate as a critic in the midterm review for UIC Desert Unit (ARCH 365), a third-year core studio course coordinated by Francesco Marullo at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture.

At the annual AIA Chicago Design Night, Principal Palmyra Geraki took the stage with fellow Board members of the AIA Chicago Foundation. It was an amazing night at the Harris Theater! Congratulations to all award winners!

Alongside co-authors Kirsten Day and Andrea Dietz, Principal Palmyra Geraki presented a paper titled "Educating the Organizer" as part of a session on pedagogy titled "Challenging Inequities in the Classroom: Pedagogies of Difference" at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians. The paper summarized some of the basic ideas behind the book The Organizer's Guide to Architecture Education (forthcoming by Routledge), which is being coauthored by Kirsten Day, Andrea Dietz, Peggy Deamer, Jessica Garcia-Fritz, Tessa Forde, Palmyra Geraki, and Valérie Lechêne, with help from Renzo Dagnino.

Construction has started on our Woodlawn project.

Principal Palmyra Geraki participated in a community-oriented design charette at Milwaukee's Beerline Trail, organized by Community Design Solutions at the Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

First day of classes at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee! This fall, principal Palmyra Geraki, who is also an Assistant Professor in Architecture at UWM, is teaching an elective vertical studio (Arch 650/850) titled "Living and Working".

Will Lathrop has joined the PALMYRA team. Welcome, Will!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 119 titled "Midsummer Multitudes" for the New York Review of Architecture.

The City of Chicago Department of Buildings has issued a permit for our Woodlawn project.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 116 titled "Indulgence" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was invited to be one the Spring Awards Jury at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Amazing work by all IIT students!

This coming fall principal Palmyra Geraki will be joining the architecture faculty at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 113 titled "Big Ideas" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 107 titled "Does Architecture Always Have an Audience?" for the New York Review of Architecture.

The Zoning and Landscape reviews have been completed on our Barry Av project!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 96 titled "Wringing in the New Year" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki has been elected a Trustee of the AIA Chicago Foundation Board.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 94 titled "Strike!" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 92 titled "Coalition Building" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a panelist for a WE@UIC hosted by the UIC Chapter of NOMAS and dedicated to the immigrant experience alongside Francesco Marullo and Zehra Ahmed.

Principal Palmyra Geraki is a contributor to an article titled “Beyond Capitalism? Organizing Architecture Education” published in Issue 76 of the Journal of Architectural Education. The article was co-authored with Frank Burridge, Aaron Cayer, Kirsten Day, Peggy Deamer, Andrea Dietz, Jessica Garcia Fritz, Daniel Jacobs, Valérie Lechêne, and Natalie Leonard, fellow organizers of the 2021 ABC Summer School.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 79 titled "School’s in Session | Cutting Work for Class" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was one of the organizers of the 2022 iteration of the Architecture Beyond Capitalism (A-B-C) Summer School.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 72 titled "Christopher Alexander was ready to change the world, but the world kept him waiting" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki contributed to an essay titled “Not as Easy as ABC” published in Log 54 under the issue theme of "Coauthoring." The piece, a record of a series of conversations about the 2021 Architecture Beyond Capitalism Summer School, was co-authored with The Academia Working Group within the Architecture Lobby.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 70 titled "So you thought of it, but did you make it?" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was the editor of Skyline 69 titled "The Return of the Model" for the New York Review of Architecture.

Palmyra PLLC was named the 8th best architecture firm in Chicago by Architizer!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a panelist for “Architectural Work and Activism” hosted by Yale Women in Architecture. The panel, moderated by Peggy Deamer, also included Elaina Berkowitz, Elisa Iturbe, and Xinyi Xie.

Our project "Not All White Walls" was nominated for the 2023 German Design Awards in the Fair and Exhibition category!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a panelist for the University of Illinois Chicago AIAS Women’s Month Panel "Profession" along with Abby Chang.

Our project "Not All White Walls" received an Architecture MasterPrize Honorable Mention in the Exhibition category.

Principal Palmyra Geraki presented the "Architecture Beyond Capitalism School" at ACD 44, the national conference organized by the Association for Community Design, together with Peggy Deamer, Valérie Lechêne, and Natalie Leonard.

Principal Palmyra Geraki contributed a review of Theory's Curriculum (edited by Joseph Bedford, The Architecture Exchange, 2020) to Issue 22 of New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki presented the project "Not All White Walls" at the 27th World Congress of Architects organized by UIA in Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) and online.

Our project "Not All White Walls" was selected as the 2021 Popular Choice Winner in the Architizer A+Awards Architecture +Color category!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was one of the organizers of the 2021 Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) Summer School. She was the co-coordinator of "Collectives," the third and final session of the school, together with Quilian Riano.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a panelist for a Workshop titled “Alternative Frameworks for Architectural Practice: The Coop Model" at ACSA 109, the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Other panelists, all members of the Architecture Lobby's Coop Network Group, included: Ashton Hamm, Chase Robinson, Christian Rutherford, Gabriel Cira, Martha Kriley, Matthew Okazaki, Peggy Deamer, Quilian Riano, and Shawhin Roudbari.

Principal Palmyra Geraki presented a paper titled "Lessons from Close Reading" at ACSA 109.

Principal Palmyra Geraki presented a paper titled "Format as Pedagogy: deploying digital and hybridized formats in post-pandemic beginning design studio" at NCBDS 36 (National Conference on the Beginning Design Student).

Principal Palmyra Geraki contributed a review of The Invention of Public Space by Mariana Mogilevich to Issue 16 of New York Review of Architecture.

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a panelist for a Coop Roundtable Coversation titled "Worker-Forward Modes of Practice: Worker-Owned Firms; Cooperative Networks; Unions; Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)" at the 2020 National NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects) Conference "Spatial Shifts" that took place in Oakland. Other panelists included: Ashton Hamm, Gabriel Cira, Matthew Okazaki, and Quilian Riano of the Architectur Lobby; A.L. Hu of Mutual Aid NYC; Jonathan Welle and Mordecai Cargill of Cleveland Owns.

Principal Palmyra Geraki joined the faculty at University of Illinois Chicago.

Our project "Not All White Walls" was selected to be exhibited at the 2019 NOMA National Conference: “Believe the Hype” in Brooklyn, NY.

Our project "Not All White Walls" went live at California College of the Arts!

Artwork dropoff, space prep, room setup, and artwork installation for our project "Not All White Walls" at California College of the Arts!

Principal Palmyra Geraki was a panelist at the “No Borders" Architects meet in Fuoribiennale roundtable at the Venice Biennale.

Principal Palmyra Geraki joined the faculty at California College of the Arts.