RESURRECTING BABYLON (ongoing)
What is contemporary space in the age of the globalized and digitalized?
A portrait of what the city has become and where she is going.
Featuring the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and the Taj Mahal.
This book is a collection of original text and photographs, spanning wide a discourse on locality, identity and language in the urban landscape of the contemporary world.
184 Pages, sewn binding.
Ongoing project, to be published 2025.
Text, photographs and content by Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos.
Detailed design in collaboration with Daniela Eberle.
Printed at Fröhlich Info AG in Switzerland.
A portrait of what the city has become and where she is going.
Featuring the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and the Taj Mahal.
This book is a collection of original text and photographs, spanning wide a discourse on locality, identity and language in the urban landscape of the contemporary world.
184 Pages, sewn binding.
Ongoing project, to be published 2025.
Text, photographs and content by Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos.
Detailed design in collaboration with Daniela Eberle.
Printed at Fröhlich Info AG in Switzerland.
ALL PHOTOS OF BOOK BY DANIELA EBERLE ©2021
BEGEGNUNGSORTE JUNGER MENSCHEN IM ZOLLIKERBERG (2025)
STUDIO TEKKEH IS AN ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE BY ALEXANDER CYRUS POULIKAKOS.
THE WORK OF STUDIO TEKKEH FOCUSES ON THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, FRAGMENTS, PUBLIC SPACE AND LAYERS IN SPACE PRODUCED THROUGH A GLOBAL CONDITION.
WITH AN ANALYTICAL, CONTEXT- AND RESEARCH-BASED APPROACH, STUDIO TEKKEH WORKS THROUGH COLLABORATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES IN COMMISSIONED AND SELF-INITIATED PROJECTS.
STUDIO TEKKEH IS EXPRESSED IN ARCHITECTURE, TEXTILE, COLLAGE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXT.
THE NAME TEKKEH IS DERIVED FROM THE WORD تكه IN FARSI, TRANSLATING TO “FRAGMENT” OR “PIECE”.
Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos (born 1993 in Illinois, U.S.A.) is a Swiss architect based in Zurich. After finishing his studies, he worked as a co-project leader at BS+EMI, alongside organizing the Iranian Film Festival Zurich and publishing the book Resurrecting Babylon. In 2024 he completed a residency at Rhizome in Algiers through a Pro Helvetia travel grant. Currently he teaches architectural design at the chair of Mariam Issoufou at ETH Zurich and runs studio TEKKEH.