Studioentropia is an architecture and research studio established in Athens in 2007 by Yota Passia and Panagiotis Roupas.
The studio focuses on projects and synergies to understand and visualise how space is produced to allow for change and ecological self-awareness. Machines, codes, and cartographies are used as conceptual tools to further understand how and why space changes at different levels and in different ways.
Focusing on speculative design and engineering, the studio articulates design ecologies and (auto)generative dynamics in the framework of design competitions, exhibitions, private projects, and installations. The studio has been awarded prizes in various local and international competitions.
Yota Passia is an architect and urban researcher, currently working on a field-based approach to map cities and monitor their sociospatial metabolism. She has received her diploma and MPhil in Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where she lectures. Her main teaching interest lies in courses that span the disciplines of architecture and the arts. She currently tutors in undergraduate and postgraduate design studios that focus on “research through design” methodologies. Since 2018, she has been consulting the Municipality of Athens on its urban planning strategies and ongoing projects.
Panagiotis Roupas holds two professional degrees, one in Graphic Arts (2001) from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and another in Architecture (MA, 2006) from the National Technical University of Athens. He has completed his MSc degree (2016) in NTUA, where he focused on the modulation of form through the a-signifying semiotics model. He is currently undertaking a PhD under scholarship (Special Research Funds Account) in which he is cartographing the form’s capacities to affect and be affected. He is a teaching associate in NTUA’s School of Architecture undergraduate and master’s programs.
