The Reluctant Professional

Palmyra Geraki will discuss recent work through both her academic and professional practice.

Biography

Palmyra Geraki
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Assistant Professor
PALMYRA PLLC, Principal

Palmyra Geraki is a designer, educator, writer, and editor. A licensed architect in the US and Greece, she is the founding principal of PALMYRA, an award-winning multidisciplinary practice based in Chicago. Before founding her own practice, Palmyra worked in Thessaloniki (Greece), New York, and San Francisco on a wide range of project types.

An Assistant Professor at UWM since 2023, Palmyra previously 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 served as a Skyline Editor for the New York Review of Architecture in 2022 and 2023 and her writing has appeared in several publications. She is a coauthor of the book The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education (Routledge 2024).

In 2022 Palmyra was elected Board Trustee of the AIA Chicago Foundation and in 2024 she joined the Board of Directors of The Architecture Lobby (T-A-L), an international labor advocacy organization for the AEC industry.

Palmyra received her B.A. in ‘Architecture’ and ‘Ethics, Politics & Economics’ from Yale University and her M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture.