Argyro Loukaki is Professor Emerita at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). She has a DPhil from Oxford University, an MSc in Architectural Engineering from NTUA, an MA from Sussex University, and an MSc from Panteion University. She has obtained doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships and prizes from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and universities including Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, NTUA, and the universities of Oxford and Princeton. Loukaki created the Master's Program "Art-Cultural Heritage-Development Policies" and launched bi-annual international conferences on art and/in space held at the Acropolis Museum. Earlier, she accomplished urban planning, architectural design and monuments' preservation projects as a functionary of the Greek state, including archaeological landscaping and restoration, and was Planning Advisor to the City of Piraeus. She has authored 11 books plus many articles and monographs in English and Greek on art, architecture and space, cultural heritage, restoration and its aesthetics, Mediterranean cultural geography and the geographical unconscious, tourism, landscape, and the spatialities of Classical Greek tragedy. The Monumental is the fourth by Routledge. Previous books by Routledge include: Living Ruins, Value Conflicts; The Geographical Unconscious; Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime.
