Palmyra Geraki

Education

B.A. Architecture | Ethics, Politics & Economics (double major), Yale University, 2006
M.Arch., Yale University, 2010

Biography

Palmyra Geraki is a designer, educator, writer, and editor. She is the founding principal of the award-winning interdisciplinary studio PALMYRA and a licensed architect in the United States and Greece.

Before founding her own practice, Palmyra worked on affordable housing and other mission-driven projects as Project Manager and Project Architect at Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects in San Francisco, on a wide range of mid-rise and high-rise residential and commercial projects as an Associate at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects in New York City, and on exhibition design and adaptive reuse projects at Inteform in Thessaloniki.

Prior to joining the faculty at SARUP, Palmyra taught at the University of Illinois Chicago and at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She was a member of the organizing committee of the 2021 and 2022 Architecture Beyond Capitalism (A-B-C) Summer School and she has been an invited juror at universities across North America.

Palmyra is coauthor of the book The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education (Routledge 2024). She was a Skyline Editor for the New York Review of Architecture in 2022-2023 and her writing has appeared in several publications.

She currently serves on the boards of AIA Chicago Foundation and The Architecture Lobby (T-A-L).

Palmyra received her B.A. in 'Architecture' and 'Ethics, Politics & Economics' from Yale University and her M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture. At Yale, she was the recipient of the George Nelson Traveling Fellowship, the President's Public Service Fellowship, and the Curtis Prize.

Palmyra grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece, and has lived and/or worked in New Haven, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Chicago.

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