Marilia Lezou

Marilia Lazou is an Athens-born, London-based Architect (ARB) and interdisciplinary artist. Her practice primarily spans built architecture and includes digital art, physical installations, and theatre set design. Often film-like in quality, her work engages with the relationship between physical and digital realms, touching on themes of hyperrealism.

Her design and research piece, Hotel Mollino: Staging Spaces of the Everyday as Heterotopias of Performance in Scenography and Architecture, received international recognition through the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA President’s Medals), earning the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing, and toured globally.

She practices at EPR Architects, one of the United Kingdom’s leading architectural practices, where her work focuses on the renovation and adaptive reuse of listed buildings. Her project experience includes the change of use & renovation, concept development for Nomad Hotel London, The Ned London, The Hoxton Shepherd's Bush, and the ongoing Schliemann Melas Mansion restoration in Athens. She is also the co-founder of the interdisciplinary design collective owmi studio(oh-me). Marilia has also completed set design works for the National Theatre of Greece and Olvio Theatre Athens. She completed her architecture studies at the Architectural Association (AA).

Her awards, competitions, exhibitions, and recognitions include participation in the 2025 KSENOI exhibition at ATOPOS cvc (Athens), featuring 15 contemporary Greek artists; the RIBA Silver Medal Award (2018); Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing; The LSA Department Prize for Postgraduate Architecture; The Blueprint Award; GL[a]S Micro Manifestos Award; nomination for the Architects’ Journal Prize; exhibitions at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Solus for Blueprint (Clerkenwell), RIBA for RIBA Late, and the Royal Academy; and features in Architectural Digest (“Emerging Talents,” 2022), Dezeen (“Talents to Watch”), Kathimerini (“Success Stories Post Brexit”), Monocle (on Carlo Mollino), and To Vima amongst others.