Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos. I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture at MIT, & am a recipient of the Onassis Foundation Scholarship. I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction, & was awarded the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research.
     Through academic research, teaching, large-scale installations, performances, & audio-visual investigations, I have  explored the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society. My work has been exhibited in Athens GR, Cambridge MA, Stanford CA & San Francisco CA.
        I have honed my skills in planning & design at firms in London, GB, New York, NY & Athens, GR, working as an Architectural Assistant at Foster + Partners, an Urban Design Intern at WXY, a Neighborhood Strategies Intern at the NYCEDC, & as an Architectural Intern at Potiropoulos + Partners.
       Alongside my partner, I develop work for Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.
        I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that moves between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about spaces, distance & uncertainty. Performing solo & alongside bandmates, I have opened for artists such as The Hellp, French Cassettes, & Illuminati Hotties. 

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Influences
Writing, Art, Buildings & Music
 Brian Eno. Music For Airports. 1978.
Nikolaj Schultz. Land Sickness. 2023. 
Gerhard Richter. Silsersee. 1995.
Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre. Critical Regionalism. 2003.
Ursula Le Guin. Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. 1986.
Timothy Morton. Hyperobjects: Philosophy & Ecology after the End of the World. 2013.
Point Supreme Architects. Petralona House. 2020.
Rem Koolhaas. Delirious New York. 1978.
William Basinski. The Disintegration Loops. 2003.
Keisuke Oka. Arimaston Building. 2005 - 2025.
Low. Double Negative. 2018.
Robert Venturi. Complexity & Contradiction in Architecture. 1966.
Cy Twombly. Leaving Paphos Ringed in Waves. 2009.
Neiheiser Argyros. Exeter Road Pavilion. 2025.
Arata Isozaki. The City In The Air. 1962.
Unknown. Homer’s Tomb in Ios. 900BC.
Kenzo Tange. Plan For Tokyo. 1960.
Bas Smets. LUMA Arles Landscape. 2021.
Aris Konstantinidis. Weekend House. 1962.
The National. Trouble Will Find Me. 2013.
Forensic Architecture. The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas. 2013.
Clyfford Still. Untitled. 1964.
PILA Studio. Piraeus Tower Facade. 2023.
Richard Diebenkorn. Seawall. 1957.
Jim Campbell. Day For Night. 2018.
Lacaton & Vassal. Bordeaux Transformation. 2017.
Le Corbusier. Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. 1962.
Renzo Piano. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. 2016.
Slowdive. Slowdive. 2017.
Alekos Fassianos. Narcissist. 2007.
Bernard Tschumi Architects. Acropolis Museum. 2009.
David Harvey. Rebel Cities. 2012.
Constantinos Doxiadis. Architectural Space in Ancient Greece. 1972.
Chanel Beads. Your Day Will Come. 2024.
Robert Smithson. Entropy & the New Monuments. 1966.
Interpol. Turn On The Bright Lights. 2002.
Aldo van Eyck. The Productive Void. 1978.
Andy Goldsworthy. Stone River. 2001.
Brian Eno. Composers as Gardeners. 2011.
Diller + Scofidio. Slow House. 1991.
Dimitris Pikionis. Acropolis Pathway. 1957.
Fumihiko Maki. Nurturing Dreams. 2008.
Gordon Matta-Clark. Building Cuts. 1971.
Gottfried Semper. Style in the Technical & Tectonic Arts. 1863.
Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities. 1972.
Katsushika Hokusai. Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. 1832.
Kevin Lynch. What Time Is This Place? 1972.
Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 2009.
Peter Zumthor. Atmospheres. 2006.
R. Murray Schafer. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment & the Tuning of the World. 1977.
Robert Smithson. A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey. 1967.