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Penelope Haralambidou is Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). She serves as Co-Director of the Cinematic and Videogame Architecture MArch programme and has been a dedicated educator at UCL since 1996, teaching architectural design across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. Her academic career at UCL includes significant roles such as PhD Supervisor since 2004, MArch PG24 Coordinator (2013-2024), Director of Communications (2018-2022), and Acting Director of MPhil/PhD Architectural Design (2016-2017).
Her educational background includes:
- Doctor of Philosophy from University College London (2003)
- Master of Architecture from University College London (1995)
- Diploma of Architecture from National Technical University of Athens (1993)
Haralambidou's research is practice-led and interdisciplinary, combining architectural design with art practice, history & theory, filmmaking, and medieval studies. She has developed an innovative methodology that employs architectural drawing, model-making, and digital film as investigatory tools to analyze ideas across architecture, visual representation, the politics of vision, and cinema. Her work explores spatial culture through time, with significant focus on feminist architectural perspectives, particularly through her research on Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). She has coined the term "architectural essay film" to describe works that use architecture as a structure, bridging film and architecture through digital technology.
Her monograph Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire (Routledge, 2013) offers an architectural design perspective on Duchamp's work, challenging traditional art historical interpretations, and was nominated for the RIBA President's Award for Research in 2014. Her solo exhibition "City of Ladies" at DomoBaal gallery (2020) presented research on Christine de Pizan's proto-feminist text.
Her notable recognition includes:
- RIBA Tutor Prize (2002)
- Shortlisted for RIBA President's Award for Research (2014)
- Shortlisted RIBA (2008)
- Travel Award from Sasakawa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (2000)
As a dedicated educator and supervisor, Haralambidou has primary supervision responsibility for seven doctoral students, secondary for five, and tertiary for two external students. She has overseen nine thesis completions, with her students consistently producing award-winning work. Notably, she is one of few Bartlett staff with two RIBA Medal-winning students (Tom Holberton, Bronze Medal winner, and Sonia Magdziarz, Silver Medal winner). Her innovative teaching methodology in PG24 unit, which uses digital film and immersive environments to rethink architecture through time, has gained international recognition, including a BBC feature in 2015.
Haralambidou leads significant research initiatives including the development of a new post-professional Master's programme in Cinematic and Videogame Architecture for UCL EAST, building on her expertise in the intersection of digital media and architectural design. Her work actively engages with Sustainable Development Goals related to Gender Equality (5), Climate Action (13), Reduced Inequalities (10), and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (16).
