Savia Palate is a lecturer of History and Theory in Architecture at the University of Cyprus.

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She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge (2021) as a Cambridge Trust Scholar (Vice-Chancellor Award). During that time, she has been a doctoral resident at the Canadian Centre of Architecture (2020), and an A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholar. She holds an MA in History and Critical Thinking from the Architectural Association School of London with Distinction (2015), and an MArch II in Theory and Design (cluster: Space, Society, and Culture) from the Pennsylvania State University (2014) as a Fulbright Scholar.

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Her research endeavours focus on the production of critical histories that relate to prescriptions of space, as these may be produced and transmitted by agents and methodologies within and beyond the disciplinary boundaries of architecture.

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She is currently exploring "uneasy but shared heritage" on contested territories (USHer - www.ucy.ac.cy/usher), investigating the role of architectural history in contributing to the intangible value of modern architecture as heritage that can be shared. This project involved the development of an interactive guide to modern architecture in Cyprus as a digital archive that listens. She co-chaired a paper session titled "What is Shared? Architectural Heritage in Conflict" at the 2023 SAH conference, which led to the recently published special guest issue in Fabrications (SAHANZ journal).

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She is particularly interested "on buildings that no longer exist" as explored through colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial theoretical frameworks, exploring narratives of vanishment and the effect of vanishment in methods and media of architectural historiography. She is the co-convenor of the EAHN Interest Group On Vanished Buildings.