Savia Palate

Savia Palate is a lecturer of History and Theory in Architecture at the University of Cyprus.
She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge (2021) as a Cambridge Trust Scholar (Vice-Chancellor’s Award). During that time she has also been a doctoral resident at the Canadian Centre of Architecture (2020) and an A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholar. She holds an MA in History and Critical Thinking from the Architectural Association School of London with Distinction (2015), and an MArch II in Theory and Design (cluster: Space, Society, and Culture) from the Pennsylvania State University (2014) as a Fulbright Scholar.

She is currently exploring “uneasy but shared heritage” on contested territories (USHer – www.ucy.ac.cy/usher), with a particular focus on colonial “buildings that no longer exist” in Cyprus. The project investigates the role of architectural history in contributing to the intangible value of modern architecture as heritage that can be shared. This project involved the development of an interactive guide to modern architecture in Cyprus as a digital archive that listens (USHer mobile app). She has recently co-chaired a paper session titled “What is Shared? Architectural Heritage in Conflict” at the 2023 SAH conference, which led to the recently published special guest issue in Fabrications (SAHANZ journal). She is also the co-convenor of the EAHN Interest Group “On Vanished Buildings.”