A b o u t

Panos Leventis was born in Famagusta, Cyprus. As a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California (1993). He also holds a post-professional Master of Architecture with an emphasis in Urban Design from UCLA (1996), and a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University (2004), which he obtained as a Commonwealth Scholar.

Panos is Professor and Associate Dean at the Hammons School of Architecture of Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. He served as Director of Drury’s Study Abroad Center in Volos and Aegina, Greece, from 2008 to 2013. He has also taught at the USC School of Architecture Study Abroad Program in Milan and Como, at McGill’s School of Architecture in Montréal, and at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, where he aided in the formation of a new Department of Architecture. Panos has been invited to lecture on his research and/or participate in design reviews at the University of Michigan, at the Pratt Institute in New York, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, at the State University of New York in Albany, at California State University in San Luis Obispo, at Mid-Sweden University in Östersund, at the University of Patras in Greece, at Deree - the American College of Greece in Athens, and at all four accredited Schools of Architecture in Cyprus (Neapolis University, Frederick University, University of Nicosia, and University of Cyprus).

Panos has been practicing Architecture as a licensed Architect in Cyprus since the mid-1990s, with numerous built projects and awarded entries in national and international Architectural and Urban Design competitions. His research and scholarship engage the past, present and future of cities: Departing from his doctoral dissertation in 2004, he authored Twelve Times in Nicosia. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1192-1570: Architecture, Topography and Urban Experience in a Diversified Capital City, published by the Cyprus Research Center in 2006. Since then, he has been presenting and publishing on the topography of late medieval and renaissance cities in the eastern Mediterranean, with Nicosia and Famagusta serving as the primary case studies. Since 2012, he has also been researching the socio-urban upheavals that sprang forth in the context of multiple post-2008 socio-urban and financial crises. He has used Athens, Nicosia, Beirut, and Jerusalem as his primary case studies for this research, focusing on graffiti, street art and urban resistance movements as understood via the lens of public space and participatory urban processes. He has published and lectured on this work in Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden and the U.S.