Terra Urbis is the personal web space of Nikos Katsikis

Nikos is an urbanist and educator working at the intersection of urbanization theory, design and geospatial analysis. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Urbanism Department, TU Delft, were he co-leads the Critical Environments group; and Affiliated Researcher at Urban Theory Lab Chicago. Previously he was Research Tutor at the Royal College of Arts, London, where he collaborated in the development of a new research program on Environmental Architecture; and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Luxembourg, where he worked on the establishment and accreditation of a new Master program on Architecture, European Urbanization and Globalization. He holds a professional diploma of Architecture and an MSc in Design-Space-Culture from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), both with highest distinction, and a Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). At the GSD he was also on the editorial board of the New Geographies journal and co-editor of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism, and has served as Instructor in Urban Planning and Design. His work includes contributions in Anthropocene Review, Architectural Design (AD), Technospheres, Strelka Magazine, Harvard Design Magazine, New Geographies and MONU; book chapters in Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (ed. Neil Brenner);Doing Global Urban Research (ed. Michael Hoyler); The Horizontal Metropolis (ed. Paola Vigano); the volumes Manhattan: Grid for Ordering an Island (with Joan Busquets) and Positions on Emancipation (with Florian Hertweck); and the forthcoming books Data-spheres of Planetary urbanization, and Environments of Planetary Urbanization (with Urban Theory Lab). He teaches and lectures internationally and his creative work has been widely exhibited in venues such as the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism.