Magouliotis, Nikos

2024

Nikos (Nikolaos) Magouliotis is an architectural historian and post-doc researcher at ETH Zurich, in the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture. His research and teaching focuses on the history and historiography of architecture in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 18^th and 19^th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the vernacular, both as a historiographic construct and as a historical reality. He is currently part of the SNSF-funded project ‘Building Identity: Character in Architectural Debate and Design, 1750-1850’ (led by Sigrid de Jong and Maarten Delbeke), where he focuses on Swiss vernacular architecture. His research juxtaposes the ways in which urban intellectuals idealized the chalet as a symbol of rusticity and national identity, with the actual lives, customs and beliefs of the peasants that built and inhabited such constructions.