Fenia Tsanaka
Architect, Author and Scholar of Aristotelian Philosophy
Fenia Tsanaka was born in 1969 in Athens and is the mother of two children. She studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and has since maintained her own architectural practice, undertaking private studies, supervision, and construction projects. She has had a continuous thirty-year collaboration with the Onassis Foundation. Her most recent major projects include the statutory supervision of the expansion of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (2019–2025, 12,300 sq.m.) and consulting services, study implementation, and supervision for the Onassis Cultural Centre (Onassis Stegi) (2002–2011, 18,000 sq.m.).
She has traveled to more than 45 countries, experiences that shaped her perspective as a global citizen.
Over the past ten years, she has been systematically engaged in the practical philosophy of Aristotle, exploring what constitutes a good life and how it is built through conscious decisions and the cultivation of character. She is the author of Renovating My Life with Aristotle as My Architect (Armos Publications), first published in Greek in 2020 and released in English in 2023 by Armos Publications. The book reached a second Greek edition and has been presented in numerous events and lectures in Greece and abroad, as well as in more than 40 interviews in print and electronic media in Greece and the United States. For three consecutive years, she delivered a lecture series at the Theocharakis Foundation in Athens, focusing on eudaimonia, emotional cultivation, and mindset transformation through Aristotelian practical wisdom.