Ioanna Piniara

Ioanna Piniara is a Greek architect and researcher holding a PhD in Architecture from the Architectural Association, London (AA). Prior to her doctoral studies, Ioanna studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Thessaly. Her research interests include the study of domesticity as a biopolitical device for the control of bodies and construction of identities, the spatial ramifications of economy, institutional power and urban policy in the design of collective housing in Europe as well as narratives for the decolonization of housing typologies and urban forms. Her research has been supported by the AA, the Onassis Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Sir Richard Stapley Trust and the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. Ioanna is teaching at the ‘Projective Cities’ MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design programme and the History and Theory Studies course at the AA and is a guest reviewer at the Journal of Architecture. As a postdoctoral Fellow in the LOEWE research cluster “Architectures of Order: Practices and Discourses between Knowledge and Design”, she investigates the introduction of feminist thinking in the spatial ordering of collective housing in early 20^th-century Weimar Germany.