Foivos Geralis is a licensed architect and a doctoral candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, where he is also pursuing a Certificate in the History of Science. His research explores how architectural, botanical, medical, and museological experiments in climatic control from the early 19th century to today have reshaped ideas about nature and climate, creating new frameworks for understanding bodies and their environments as climate subjects.

Geralis has examined the notion of climate subjectivity across geographies and scales, tracing the movement of diverse bodies—from tropical plants in late-18th-century horticultural experiments and colonial exchanges between Jamaica and London, to “useful animals” in 19th-century imperial acclimatization gardens and territories in France, Algeria, and Brazil, to British soldiers in mid-20th-century military experiments in the Arabian Peninsula.

His dissertation focuses on the conceptualization of museum objects as climate subjects within rapidly changing museum infrastructures of the 1960s–1980s and the convergence of preservation, environmental regulation, and the politics of accumulation of cultural capital. It examines the architectural, political, economic, and cultural implications of these shifts in post- and neo-colonial contexts, seeking to understand how the collision of environmental and museological practices mediate heritage and its audiences, and how cultural and scientific histories are constructed and reimagined.

Geralis’s research has taken him to archives, libraries, museums, and botanical gardens in Britain, France, Greece, Jamaica, and Brazil. Supported by Princeton University’s School of Architecture where he was named the Sherley W. Morgan Class of 1913 Fellow, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, his scholarly work has recently been presented at the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) thematic conference in Reykjavik, the University of Hawai‘i Manoa, FAU-São Paulo, the Princeton Athens Center, and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.

Before Princeton, Geralis trained as an architect engineer at Aristotle University in Greece, with an exchange year at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris - La Villette. He completed postgraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens and The Cooper Union, where he contributed to Lydia Kallipoliti’s book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia (Actar, 2024). He has taught architecture studios and seminars at the National Technical University of Athens, The Cooper Union, Princeton University, and Barnard College.

Currently, he coordinates the Graduate Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University and co-teaches a graduate design studio at The Cooper Union focused on The Body.

His CV is available here.