Greek-Australian architect Elena K. Tsolakis has been re-elected to the governing body of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. According to Neos Kosmos newspaper, Tsolakis will be a chartered architect elected for a three-year term.
Tsolakis was born in Melbourne to Cypriot-Australian architect Kyriakos Tsolakis and Greek-Australian Angela Raftopoulos, from Ithaca. Her grandfather was poet Stathi Raftopoulos. She was graduated from the Melbourne University and the UK Westminster and Kingston Universities. She currently works between the UK and Cyprus where she is a partner of Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects, a family architectural practice based in Nicosia.
Tsolakis received the British Institution Award from the Royal Academy in 2009 and collaborated with artist Alana Jelinek on the images presented at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2006. She has been a RIBA panel member for the validation of courses in architecture and a member of the committee Architects for Change, RIBA’s forum on equality and diversity.
Renowned international architects including John Assael, current President of RIBA Angela Brady and Stephen Hodder backed Tsolakis’ nomination. “I am very pleased and humbled by the support I received by the institute’s membership for my election to RIBA Council. I believe I am the youngest chartered member and one of the few women so it is an honor and a responsibility I take seriously,” Tsolakis said.
(Source: Neos Kosmos)
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