Books By Marilena Mela - Author

Marilena Mela is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she earned her PhD as part of the European Marie Curie-funded project Heriland. She also holds MSCs in Architecture and Architectural Theory from the National Technical University of Athens. Her research focuses on the intersection of heritage, sustainability, landscape, and climate, exploring situated links between inherited pasts and imagined futures in the face of socioenvironmental crises. She teaches courses on heritage, history, design, landscape, and urbanism. She also collaborates with the award-winning collective Boulouki whose work centres on traditional building practices and local knowledge within Greek landscapes.