Nikos Katsikis

Nikos is an architect and urbanist. He is a Doctor of Design candidate and instructor in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). At the GSD he is also research associate in the New Geographies Lab and in the Urban Theory Lab since their foundation. He has organized conferences on Urban Metabolism (2014), Regionalism and the Mediterranean (2013) and the Limits of the Urban (2012), and is on the editorial board of New Geographies journal and co-editor of "New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism" (HUP, 2014). He holds a professional degree (2006) and a Master in Architecture (2009) from the National Technical University of Athens. His recent work includes contributions in "MONU: Geographical Urbanism" (2014), "Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization" (N. Brenner ed., Berlin: Jovis, 2013) and the forthcoming pamphlet with N. Brenner, "Is the world urban? Towards a critique of geospatial ideology" (2015).