Lefkos Kyriacou, Director

Lefkos (Dip Arch, MA) qualified as an architect in 2005 and currently lives and practices in London. He has worked on projects for a variety of educational, community and religious client bodies. Lefkos spent seven years at the award-winning Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture. Figure 1 Architects was established in 2014 and has a growing portfolio of residential and commercial projects including both new build and renovations. 

In conjunction with practice, Lefkos has been a researcher and teacher at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. He was a Research Associate for Conflict in Cities (2005-2013), focussing on urban conflict in contested cities in Europe and the Middle East including Jerusalem, Belfast, Nicosia and Mostar. He produced the maps and drawings for the book Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday  and was a co-author of The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places. He was a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies for Architecture at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Lefkos is currently a research member of the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research and a research supervisor for the Mphil in Architecture and Urban Design, both in Cambridge.