MS Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia GSAPP; MA and Urban Design, University of Patras, Greece
Vasiliki Zochiou is a Greek architect and set designer, whose work operates between research and practice. She recognises architecture as a performative discipline that creates spaces of encounter between humans and other species, technologies, materials, and temporalities, especially foregrounding its agency and responsibility amid the climate crisis.
Zochiou has recently served as Associate Faculty for Advanced Studio and as Research Assistant at Columbia GSAPP. She has contributed to the research and curation of exhibitions and installations at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, as well as the Natural Materials Lab and the Public Programming and Exhibitions department at Columbia GSAPP. In the past years, she has worked across a range of scales and typologies, from residential, hospitality, and office projects across Europe, to exhibition design, installations and set design for theatre and contemporary dance productions in Greece and Germany.
Zochiou holds an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia GSAPP (2026), where she is the recipient of the 2026 Honor Award for Excellence in Advanced Architectural Design and of the 2026 William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize. She also holds a Master in Architecture and Urban Design (2020) and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering (2019) from the University of Patras, Greece.
