Iris
Giannakopoulou

Iris Giannakopoulou was born in Athens in 1981. She studied Architecture in England and Scotland. She collaborated with important Greek architects, including her 'teacher' Konstantinos Decavallas. Since 2011 she maintains an architectural office in Athens. She has also worked in graphic design, architectural photography and illustration. Her two solo exhibitions ('Lines in the Sun', Mykonos 2013, 'Anemologio', Mykonos 2017) were followed with the exhibition 'to the moon & back' in 2022, on the island of Hydra.

Iris is a sailing and scuba-diving enthusiast and lover of Greek tradition. Her love for all things sea-related originates from childhood summers with her family on a boat. Through architectural sketching, she formed a personal expressive language with which she captures her experiences, especially the trips which are her greatest source of inspiration. A mother of three, Iris and her family travel through Greece on a sailboat, discovering and drawing its beauties.