Despina Stratigakos

Despina Stratigakos (born 1963) is a Canadian-born architectural historian, writer, and professor in the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Buffalo.

Stratigakos was born in Montreal, Quebec, and received her undergraduate education from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.

Stratigakos' books explore the intersections of power and architecture. Where Are the Women Architects? (2016) confronts the challenges women face in the architectural profession. Hitler at Home (2015) investigates the architectural and ideological construction of the Führer’s domesticity. A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008) traces the history of a forgotten female metropolis. This book won the German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize and the Milka Bliznakov Research Prize.

Stratigakos has served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, an Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech, a Trustee of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo. She also participated on Buffalo’s municipal Diversity in Architecture task force and was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools to encourage design literacy and academic excellence. In 2016-17, Stratigakos was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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