Marya Demetra Kanakis selected projects / archive / info
# architecture / ecology / media / teaching / all



2023. Chicago Architecture Biennial Reading Room: BOOKSCAPES //// exhibition, programming [chicago]
2023. Towards Biohybrid Design: Future Hospitals, Landscapes of Care, + Community Health //// teaching [chicago]
2023. Grafted Natures: The Ecology of a Blurred Species //// publication [various]
2023. The Book in the Age of... //// publication, exhibition [cambridge]
2023. OffCUT(s) //// teaching [virtual]
2023. Radcliffe Institute: Botanical Geographies //// exhibition [various]
2023. Harvard GSD Kirkland Gallery //// exhibition [cambridge]
2022. Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae: A Living Herbarium of Wheat //// video [cambridge, athens]
2022. Disenchanted City: Chicago + Milan //// teaching [cambridge]
2022. Mies 50x50 //// architecture [long island]
2022. The Ecological Footprint of 75 Years of Italian Cinema //// essay [various]
2022. Fashioning a Well Tempered Environment //// essay [venice]
2022. Machine Poeisis //// exhibition [cambridge]
2022. Technological Progress in the Age of Uncertainty: Global Environmental Moratoria //// essay [various]
2022. Archigram 10: A Uniform + Botanical Guide for the Citizen of the Future //// book [various]
2022. ESG Analysis + Report for 135 LaSalle //// architecture [chicago]
2022. The Artificial Image of the City //// video [los angeles]
2022. Dirk Denison Architects, Private Residential Housing + Hybrid Housing Book //// architecture [chicago]
2021. Contaminated Ecologies: From Radioactivity to the Salvation of Sunflowers //// publication, urbanism [various]
2021. TikTok Urbanism: Recursive Digital Landscape Formation //// essay [various]
2021. Deepfakes + War: Spatial Effects of Aspatial Media //// essay [various]
2021. Strelka KB: Mass Housing + Climate Change //// workshop [berlin]
2021. Dirk Denison Architects, Private Residential Housing //// architecture [chicago]

2020. Croatia Dialogues //// publication [chicago]
2020. IIT Master of Science Program Concept //// teaching [chicago]
2020. YEEZY Architecture + Construction //// architecture [cody, atlanta, chicago, dominican republic]
2020. Future Tempos: Conversations on Architecture Across Time + Media (ACTAR Press) //// book [virtual]
2020. Ratio:SMDP Architects, Housing Masterplanning //// architecture [korea]

2019. Architectures of the Invisible: Primitives of a Systemic Art //// teaching  [chicago]
2019. Mechanical Oblique: Choreographies of Humans + Machines //// urbanism [barcelona]
2019. Towards a New Geology: a Pavilion for the Post-Anthropocene //// architecture [rijeka]
2019. Harmony of the Spheres: a Pavilion for Burning Man 2020 //// architecture [black rock city]
2019. Mies Heretique: a Pavilion for the Mies Society //// exhibition [chicago]

2019. SOM Elgin Hospital + Michael Reese Preservation Studies //// architecture [chicago]
2018. The Museum of Urban Planning //// architecture [chicago]

2018. Constructed Dimensions //// video [chicago]

2018. ‘Mall’falcone //// architecture [monfalcone]
2018. Acqua Alta + Acqua Bassa: Water Defense Masterplan  //// urbanism [nyc, venice]
2018. SOM Project Earth //// urbanism [chicago]

2018. Autonomous Chicago: SOM + UI Labs + Metropolis Magazine //// video [chicago]
2017. SOM Legacy Kiosks: Chicago Architecture Biennial //// video [chicago]
2016. kiitos, junior designer //// exhibition [various]

2015. SOM [art] x [engineering] x [architecture] //// exhibition [various]
2015. Haworth Fern Product Launch for kiitos + Studio Urquiola //// exhibition [chicago]

2015. RUSH Medical Center University, marketing intern //// [chicago]