Sophia Psarra
@sophiapsarra.bsky.social
I don't deal with answers or solve problems, but with how to formulate them correctly. Integrating architecture, cities, theory, data, practice. Professor. @BartlettArchUCL
We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary yesterday! Here’s to plenty more!
Milano field notes May 2026 Visit to Porta Nuova, the business district of Milan.
I am delighted to share that I have been awarded a Research Fellowship at the Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering (April–July 2026).
I had wonderful time in Southeast University School of Architecture in Nanjing. Knowledge and Architecture Symposium. With contributions from the Bartlett, MIT, Southeast University, Newcastle University and ETH.
Many scientists contacted the SITC concerned about UKRI cuts, especially to large Physics projects. Sir Ian said the overall budget was not being reduced but rising costs created a funding gap driving the reductions announced. He admitted a communications failure.
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Parliament restoration options whittled down to two with possible cost of £40bn
The final bill for restoring the Palace of Westminster could hit £40 billion, the body overseeing restoration of the Grade I-listed building has said as it outlined two paths forward for the complex j...
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Birthday night at Duck and Waffle, 🧇 east London. Looking down on an urban landscape that has changed dramatically in the last decades I have been living in the metropolis. Time and new beginnings are of essence. We raised a glass to adventurous, authentic and unapologetic living in the new year!
Proud of my PhD student CHENYANG LI, who passed his viva. His PhD builds upon Hillier's latest work to develop a framework for typologies of graph structures for comparable description of complex buildings. The examiners were Prof Steadman Bartlett UCL+ Koch, KTH. Chenyang was sponsored by EPSRC.
I am pleased to share that I was awarded the Greek International Women’s Award in the category of Design, GIWA. The award was the outcome of 35 years of academic contributions in Architecture, architectural and urban research.
Somers Town Community Association London and heat crisis workshop with participation of MAHUE students (Masters of Architectural and Urban Historic Environments) Bartlett UCL
Excellent week as Geddes Visiting Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh. I attended the Imagining Interiors Conference where I gave a keynote speech. I met PhD students, post-grad students, staff and colleagues. And I was excited to see my books in good company at the conference.
The final post in my blog trilogy on social housing. Blog 1 explored social housing in a part of London. Blog 2 saw housing as cultural and political project. Blog 3 asks: How do we address housing shortages in the 21st century? What is the role of the architect? con-figurations.com/2025/10/27/t...
The Architect and the Housing Crisis
95 Peckham Road, London, Peter Barber Architects, 2019 This is the final post in my trilogy of blogs on social housing. Blog 1 explored a concentration of diverse social housing developments within…
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This is the second in a series of three blogs drawing on the English experience of producing public housing at scale in a way that recent British governments have been unwilling to do. I review some examples, influences and critiques. con-figurations.com/2025/10/10/f...
From Lutyens’ Page Street housing to Darnbourne and Darke’s Lillington Gardens and beyond: English social housing in its architectural context
In the field of collective housing Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation at Marseilles had something of the function of a prototype, writes William Curtis in his 1981 Modern Architecture since 2000. I …
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NEW BLOG: Edwin Lutyens Public Housing on Page Street, Pimlico. As England embarks yet again on a major housing building programme under the New Towns Task Force, I reflect on earlier architectural attempts to address previous acute housing shortages. configurationscom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...
"So extreme is this embarrassment within the political class that it has eclipsed even the personal fears of disability and death among legislators who control the dollars."
The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact
The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.
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Excited to meet students for the first time today for the Architectural Phenomena module! @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
Dear friends, some good news — I’ve been shortlisted for The Greek International Women Awards (GIWA)! ✨ The winner is chosen by public vote + a committe of experts, so I’d love your support. Just click the link to vote 👉 www.eventora.com/en/Events/gi.... Thanks, your support means everything! 💜🙌
GIWA 2025
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Although currently being on his annual leave with me, visiting rugged mountains and coasts in Greece, Tony Mulhall from #RICS should celebrate that he has been elected, alongside 62 leading social scientists, a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 63 leading social scientists to its Fellowship this autumn – Academy of Social Sciences
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The first decade…thanks to our families and friends that made our wedding special. We lost a few dear ones since, and life becomes more complicated the older we get. But I at least am always made to laugh!
Trump Signs Executive Order to Make ‘Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Make ‘Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’
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Seriousness and humour, modernity and post-modernity in Pimlico
Nothing nicer than a lovely meal with collegiate friendly colleagues from our PhD programmes.
