{"id":4330,"date":"2025-07-30T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/architecture\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4330"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:36:18","slug":"after-hours","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/architecture\/event\/after-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Date & Time<\/strong>
Thursday, September 25, 2025 (5-6 p.m.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Location<\/strong>
Architecture & Urban Planning Building, Marcus Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Palmyra Geraki will discuss recent work through both her academic and professional practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Palmyra Geraki<\/strong>
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Assistant Professor
PALMYRA PLLC, Principal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s Guide to Architecture Education (Routledge 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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