Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Agapi Proimou was born in Chania, Crete. She studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH_1994-2000) and completed her master’s degree at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University (MSc in AAD, 2001-02). She has participated in the Erasmus program, studying architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’ Architecture de Paris La Villette (1998-99,) and in the Leonardo da Vinci III program, studying landscape architecture at ETSAB, Barcelona School of Architecture (2004).

She has worked in architectural offices in Athens and Crete on architectural projects of various scales and was a founding partner of Room For Though architecture design in Athens (2006-2013). In 2013 she founded her own architecture office in Athens. She has participated in conferences and exhibitions and she has received distinctions for her architectural work.

She has taught as an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Products and Systems Design Engineering, Aegean University (2003-08) and at the School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete (2008-10). In 2010 she was appointed Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras, on the discipline of Architectural Design and in 2019 she advanced to the rang of Assistant Professor on the same subject and since 2024 she is an Associate Professor on Architectural Design. At the Department of Architecture, University of Patras, she participates in teaching and coordinating Architectural Design studios, along with teaching an elective seminar and supervising research and design theses.