Lenia Mascha

Lenia Mascha is a Greek architect and artist based in Vienna. She earned her diploma in architecture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a postgraduate master’s degree in Urban Strategies from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is a licensed architect and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. Mascha taught for a year at the University of Innsbruck in the team of Peter Trummer and then spent seven years teaching first in Hani Rashid’s studio at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and later at Studio Greg Lynn at the same institute. She has led international design workshops and contributed to experimental teaching formats across Europe. Since 2015, she worked as a senior design architect at Berger+Parkkinen Architects, focusing on large-scale cultural and civic projects throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Her practice explores how drawing, weaving, and automation share underlying logics across art and architecture. Using robotic production techniques and generative systems, she creates works that range from algorithmic drawings to 3D animations, sculptural installations, and architectural prototypes. Her drawings, produced by robotic arms navigating cartesian grids, translate textile thinking into a visual language of lines, textures, and patterns. This method connects technology with craft and opens up new ways of thinking about composition, materiality, and process.

She has exhibited internationally including INTERLACE, a duo show with Marc Maurer at Galerie Data in Paris in 2024, Silver Lining at Brass Monkey Vienna in 2023, and SoundCape at the Angewandte Festival in 2022. Her work has been featured in Aesthetica Magazine’s Future Now Anthology, Tracing the Line: the art of drawing machines and pen plotters by Vetro Editions and Generative Hut, and she has contributed articles in Re:Action: Urban Resilience, Sustainable Growth, and the Vitality of Cities and Ecosystems in the Post-Information Age and in 02. Reposition Journal of Reflective Positions in Art and Science. She has received awards and grants including the LICC Finalist Award, the Aesthetica Art Prize Long List, and the SoundCape Research Grant, which supports her ongoing research into the acoustic potentials of architectural surfaces. She is co-founder of the artistic collective The She Machine.