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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Urbanism
Research, Theory & Discourse Elastic FuturesStanford, CA & Peristeri, GR
A multimedia honors thesis examining whether modernist Athens can be reprogrammed for climate resilience & demographic decline, focused on the densely populated municipality of Peristeri. The project produced a restructural toolkit for short-term interventions & a destructural framework for long-term change, synthesizing critical regionalism with metabolist methods, & received the Firestone Medal For Excellence in Research, & Outstanding Urban Studies Thesis Award.

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Athenian UrbanismsStanford, CA & Athens, GR
A self-developed & independently taught course [URBANST15SI] that examined Athens through eight overlapping profiles, reading the city as a site of multiplicity. Guided by Calvino's Invisible Cities & Kevin Lynch's What Time Is This Place?, the class mediated between Athens' past, present, & predicted future through a mix of lectures, conversations, & guest contributions.

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AcropoliticsCambridge, MA & Athens, GR
A seventy-page anthology & glossary that reframes the Acropolis as a political instrument, tracing a counterhistory through five operative conditions: ruination, fragmentation, deselection, appropriation, and interpretation. Inspired by Forensic Architecture, the project treats destruction & restoration as parallel political operations, presenting the monument as an active site of cultural negotiation rather than a stable Classical ideal.

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Vinnytsia Transport Plan Vinnytsia, UA &  Cambridge, MA
[w/ B. Sula, P. Chiri]

Vinnytsia is at a crossroad, both literally as a nexus between Lviv, Kyiv & Odesa, & figuratively as it positions itself as a regional logistics & innovation hub in the coming years. In both a post-war scenario & in a more pessimistic protracted period of uncertainty, the historic town needs to become better integrated with its newly consolidated eastern settlements to ensure efficient passenger & logistics flows.

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