The Architecture of Light

She studied theatrical lighting but managed to illuminate far more than theater stages. Based in Athens, her award-winning studio Edeko signs works that balance between art and architecture with a uniquely ethical approach.

The milestone of her career was, undoubtedly, the lighting of the Acropolis a “journey,” as she calls it, that transformed her. “It taught me to listen before I speak,” she explains. “To attune myself to the monument and place its needs above my own desires.”

Her work always revolves around encounter. “The monuments guide us - as long as we can hear their whisper,” she says. And she has achieved just that: from her luminous composition at Epidaurus to her artistic interventions in contemporary cultural centers. Behind her aesthetic precision lies a theatrical eye, a minimalist sensitivity, and above all, a deep sense of measure. For her, light is not a tool - it is a material. And often, together with darkness, her favorite element, it becomes her interlocutor.

She draws inspiration from Greece, not as a touristic landscape, but as a feeling. “Light here is not just a natural phenomenon. It has seeped into the DNA of its people, influencing the way we think, live, and create,” she says. She doesn’t choose between sun and moon; she is moved equally by the delicate power of the new moon and by the reflection of the full moon on the sea. Every sunrise, every twilight, is for her a source of creative inspiration.

Her Greek identity does not translate into her work — it is her work. You can see it in her rigor, her sensitivity, her truth — the very words she would choose to describe herself. Success does not define her. “Awards haven’t changed the way I’m inspired or create. They simply confirm that we are following a clear design path that resonates.”

She is a woman who never stops dreaming — of collaborations with James Turrell, Olafur Eliasson, or Daan Roosegaarde; who would have loved to light a Martha Graham performance, a Pink Floyd concert, or the Pyramids of Egypt. She adores jazz, blues, classical music, and sophisticated ethnic sounds — but she never listens to music while working, as she considers it a sacred act, like reading a book. She admires architecture, particularly the works of Antoni Gaudí, Tadao Ando, Carlo Scarpa, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Amanda Levete — as much as she admires the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

She doesn’t wish to “tame” the light but to let it guide her. “But why would anyone want to tame the light?” she wonders. “What could be more beautiful than allowing it to initiate us, to enlighten us?” She doesn’t need her signature on the world’s masterpieces to feel complete. It’s enough for her to keep illuminating, engaging in dialogue, and listening.

“Live every day as if it were your last,” she adds with a smile. Because in the end, what remains is what radiates.