RIBA Trust Board

Elena Tsolakis

Elena is a founding partner of Tsolakis Architects, based in Cyprus. Previously she has worked at Dixon Jones in London and J&A Philippou in Cyprus. She is currently completing her Part 3 at Westminster University. She completed her Graduate Diploma in Architecture at Kingston University in 2007 and her Bachelor of Planning & Design in Architecture in 2004 from the University of Melbourne in Australia.

At the RIBA she sits on the committee Architects for Change which is the RIBA's forum on equality and diversity issues for members. She is also on the executive committee of Archaos, the national architecture student association in the UK. 

Elena received the British Institution Award for an architectural model exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009 and she has collaborated with artist Alana Jelinek on the images presented at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2006. Elena also collaborates with other graduates and architects under the group TENT.