Petros Babasikas

Petros Babasikas is an architect and educator. His work explores the production of architecture and public space during the climate crisis. In addition to teaching at RISD, he has served as director, HBA AS, at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, focusing on the intersection of design and technology within the liberal arts, global education, leadership and engagement. He is founder of Babasikas Office in Athens and Toronto.

Babasikas’ recent projects include the Archipelago Studio, a graduate thesis course and laboratory on design and activism; adaptive reuse interventions at EMST, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens; the blue/green infrastructure and DIY urbanism study ATHENS 2030: Kapnergati Square Area in Kavala; the Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary and the Aegean Islets Conservation Project with Archipelagos Institute; the documentation/storytelling collective Depression Era Project; and the design of public spaces, installations, exhibitions and housing projects worldwide.

Babasikas has taught architecture and urbanism at the University of Patras, the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies and RISD and is vice-chair of UWC Greece. He holds a BA in Architecture and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an MArch from Princeton University.