Marya Demetra Kanakis
Ekphrasis Design Lab
Ekphrasis Design Lab
2025. Faces in the Wild: From Archives of Surveillance and Resistance to Snapchat Dysmorphia [for September Magazine] coming soon [text]
2025. A Hotel on the Greek Coast coming soon [design]
2025. Artist Residency, International Museum of Surgical Sciences coming soon [text] / [design] [exhibit]
2025. ‘New Humans’ Interview with Bart Hess and Marya Demetra Kanakis [for Classics of the Future] [text]
2024. Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center [design]
2024. Near North Health Clybourn Center, Renovation, CDN [chicago design network] [design]
2024. USC Space Journal ‘Disasters and Fevered Landscapes’ [text]
2024. Rush Oak Park Hospital, 4th Floor + 7th Floor Renovations [chicago design network] [design]
2024. ‘Genetic Alchemy’ [DISC Journal, vol. III: Enchantment] [text]
2024. “Our Common Future: Who is Sustainability For?” [Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability] lecture
2023. ‘This is a Rehearsal’, Bookscapes Reading Room + Public Programming [Chicago Architecture Biennial] press press [design] [exhibit]
2023. ‘Biohybridity: Future Hospitals, Landscapes of Care, and Community Health’ [IIT College of Architecture] [teaching]
2023. Lecture in ‘Contextualizing Design in the Anthropocene: Beyond Human Urbanism’ [TU Delft Urbanism] [lecture]
2023. Book in the Age of… [OMA + Harvard GSD] press [text] [design]
2023. Grafted Natures: The Ecology of a Blurred Species [Harvard GSD] [text] [design]
2022. Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae: A Living Herbarium of Wheat [Harvard GSD Landscape] [design]
2022. A Poster of Botanical Geographies [Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies] link [design]
2022. 135 N. LaSalle - Adaptive Reuse of Office Highrises [in coordination with Capri Investment Group] [design]
2022. OffCUT(s) [Harvard GSD] [teaching]
2021. Interior Renovations for Private Residence [for Dirk Denison Architects] [design]
2021. Art Curation for Private Residence [for Dirk Denison Architects] [design]
2021. “Mass Housing and Climate Change: Berlin,” Strelka KB [for UN Climate Conference COP26] link [design]
2021. TikTok Urbanism: Recursive Digital Landscape Formation [text]
2020. various Domes, Berms, Runways, and Houses [in coordination with Yeezy, V. Olgiati, A. Vervoordt] [design]
2021. Human Behavior, Performance, and Built Environments [Prometheus Journal, vol. 5] [text]
2019. curriculum redesign: Master of Science in Architecture Program [IIT College of Architecture] [teaching]
2019. Towards a New Geology: A Nature Pavilion for the Post-Anthropocene [for the Cultural Capital of Europe] [design]
2018. Michael Reese Hospital, Walter Gropius’ Pavilion Preservation [design]
2018. Project Earth [in coordination with SOM] [design]
2018. ChicaGO: Autonomous City: [in coordination with SOM for UI Labs, Metropolis Magazine] press [exhibit]
2018. ‘Scale + Form’ model exhibition, Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, IT) [in coordination with SOM] press [exhibit]
2017. Rush Oak Park Hospital, Campus Study [design]
2016. Haworth Fern Chair Product Launch [in coordination with kiitos + Studio Urquiola] press [exhibit]
2015. Haworth Showroom Styling [in coordination with kiitos + Studio Urquiola] press [exhibit]
2025. ‘New Humans’ Interview with Bart Hess and Marya Demetra Kanakis [for Classics of the Future] [text]
2024. Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center [design]
2024. Near North Health Clybourn Center, Renovation, CDN [chicago design network] [design]
2024. USC Space Journal ‘Disasters and Fevered Landscapes’ [text]
2024. Rush Oak Park Hospital, 4th Floor + 7th Floor Renovations [chicago design network] [design]
2024. ‘Genetic Alchemy’ [DISC Journal, vol. III: Enchantment] [text]
2024. “Our Common Future: Who is Sustainability For?” [Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability] lecture
2023. ‘This is a Rehearsal’, Bookscapes Reading Room + Public Programming [Chicago Architecture Biennial] press press [design] [exhibit]
2023. ‘Biohybridity: Future Hospitals, Landscapes of Care, and Community Health’ [IIT College of Architecture] [teaching]
2023. Lecture in ‘Contextualizing Design in the Anthropocene: Beyond Human Urbanism’ [TU Delft Urbanism] [lecture]
2023. Book in the Age of… [OMA + Harvard GSD] press [text] [design]
2023. Grafted Natures: The Ecology of a Blurred Species [Harvard GSD] [text] [design]
2022. Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae: A Living Herbarium of Wheat [Harvard GSD Landscape] [design]
2022. A Poster of Botanical Geographies [Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies] link [design]
2022. 135 N. LaSalle - Adaptive Reuse of Office Highrises [in coordination with Capri Investment Group] [design]
2022. OffCUT(s) [Harvard GSD] [teaching]
2021. Interior Renovations for Private Residence [for Dirk Denison Architects] [design]
2021. Art Curation for Private Residence [for Dirk Denison Architects] [design]
2021. “Mass Housing and Climate Change: Berlin,” Strelka KB [for UN Climate Conference COP26] link [design]
2021. TikTok Urbanism: Recursive Digital Landscape Formation [text]
2020. various Domes, Berms, Runways, and Houses [in coordination with Yeezy, V. Olgiati, A. Vervoordt] [design]
2021. Human Behavior, Performance, and Built Environments [Prometheus Journal, vol. 5] [text]
2019. curriculum redesign: Master of Science in Architecture Program [IIT College of Architecture] [teaching]
2019. Towards a New Geology: A Nature Pavilion for the Post-Anthropocene [for the Cultural Capital of Europe] [design]
2018. Michael Reese Hospital, Walter Gropius’ Pavilion Preservation [design]
2018. Project Earth [in coordination with SOM] [design]
2018. ChicaGO: Autonomous City: [in coordination with SOM for UI Labs, Metropolis Magazine] press [exhibit]
2018. ‘Scale + Form’ model exhibition, Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, IT) [in coordination with SOM] press [exhibit]
2017. Rush Oak Park Hospital, Campus Study [design]
2016. Haworth Fern Chair Product Launch [in coordination with kiitos + Studio Urquiola] press [exhibit]
2015. Haworth Showroom Styling [in coordination with kiitos + Studio Urquiola] press [exhibit]