In Situ The colloquium at ENSAG Grenoble treated forms of ”hors les murs” architectural education in which students get immersed in a variety of real situations and experiences that act as a learning accelerator. The focus and reference is the School of Commons three-year Erasmus+ program which began in Saint Laurent en Royans France last…
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Three architectural workshops
Very different from each other, yet they all have something in common. A strong belief that learning occurs through observation, and by being out there, getting involved in real situations, collaborating, addressing real problems, and providing solutions with the means that the discipline affords. Most often with a constant exchange with locals, colleagues, and theorists…
The Duncan Dance Research Center Moving Ground project
The Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center (DDRC) is a historic place in the municipality of Byron, part of the metropolitan conglomerate of Athens. Ιt was founded by Isadora Duncan and her brother Raymond in 1903. The Duncans studied classical Greek civilization and Raymond is said to have drawn inspiration for the building’s austere…
SoPHIA Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment
SoPHIA (Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment)is a H2020 program which took place in 2020 and 2021 aims to promote collective reflection within the cultural and political sector in Europe on the impact assessment and quality of interventions in European historical environment and cultural heritage at urban level. Since the second half of the…
New European Bauhaus
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ΛΟΦΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΠΠΟΥ 2031
FILOPAPPOU HILL 2031 WORKSHOP (1 & 2) Filopappou Hill is an emblematic landscape standing next to the Acropolis, with several layers of attributes which coexist to form a natural and cultural landmark for the city of Athens. Filopappou Hill takes its name from Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos, a consul and administrator under the…
AGORA CAUMME
A research platform was initiated on the spirit of ancient Agora, aiming to widen the vision of the Mediterranean studies between the three continents; Africa, Europe, and Asia.The platform was the initiative of the department of architecture and urban design at the German University in Cairo, in collaboration with the University of Palermo. The platform presents…
Resident artist at the Transitorisches Museum at Pfyn
How can a community enter a process of self-reflection and collective planning process? This was the main question behind the Pfyn Future [Perfect] workshop which was organized on September 10, 2019 by invitation from the Transitorisches Museum at Pfyn, and to zeitgarten.ch in the small community of Pfyn, Switzerland. The workshop structure The workshop was…
Living as a universe
An apartment was renovated in 2018 as the architect’s residence. It was a 71-square-meter space apartment in a typical 60s urban building, but with some latent striking features. Among them, the strategic location of the apartment from where unique views open, with the nearby Strefi hill on one side, the Turkovounia in the center, and the…
The legacy of Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander passed away on March 17, 2022 Christopher Wolfgang Alexander was a widely influential architect and design theorist, and emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley were he taught for several decades. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, sociology, systems thinking, commons theory and others. His legacy remains…
Syntagma Square. Proposal for a square offering an alternative public experience
The proposal for the design of Syntagma Square, the main public square in the city of Athens, loaded with history from the inception of the Greek state to contemporary history, adopts measures that re-align its axes and bring passive cooling design elements and a wider variety of social uses of the public space. These include:…
Mediterranean Garden project
An experimental, sensory and productive garden of coexisting species, local and imported, provide visual, tactile and olfactory stimuli year-round. The selection of the plants has been made with the following criteria: – The elimination of watering needs. For this, species that adapt to the Mediterranean climate of plants with an already developed root system that…
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