Ksestudio

ksestudio is an award winning architectural design practice based purposefully and simultaneously in New York, London and Athens, led by Sofia Krimizi and Kyriakos Kyriakou. The prefix kse- (greek ξε-) stands for un- / de-, expressing the opposition to the normative condition of a fixed architectural practice. ksestudio explores its multiple locations in order to address different cultures and audiences and experiment with a range of design mediums. We build, we teach, we research, we travel. Our projects operate in all scales and formats, from furniture to urban design, always willing to insert themselves within a lineage of practice in conversation with architectural theory. Our work is explicit, idiosyncratic and daring allowing us to expand and hybridise our experience and expertise: from the constraints of the New York zoning resolution to the complexity of intervening in a protected archaeological site. We are making great things: a seaside hotel in the Aegean, a work-live space in Athens, an off-the-grid camping site in Serifos, a very big table in New York, a perforated projection screen in Philadelphia. We believe in a dialectic production of architecture, design is not the work of a single author, it takes at least two. We take pride in the diversity of our clients, private or corporate, spreading across Europe and the United States. We have exhibited our work at the Venice Biennale, the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Museum for the City of New York, amongst other places. The website catalogues our work: a hotel, a loft, a co-working space, a school, an exhibition, a book, a bed.