Abstract The library was one of the most important institutions in the Hellenistic and Roman city. Yet, it remains one of the least easily identifiable building forms and one of the most difficult to reconstruct, because it exhibits significant variety in design, scale and monumentality and the use of different component elements. This work re-examines...
Tuesday 19/12/2017 19:00 Lecture room 301 Abstract Everyday life in Greek cities is undergoing profound transformations in the midst of the so-called “Greek crisis”. The repercussions of seven years of dogmatic neoliberal austerity policies mark the urban landscape through multiple lines of exclusion and precarity. While these policies and their implications have been widely discussed...
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New Cyprus Museum: Architectural design and the enigmatic environments of the Archeological Museum
Tuesday 23 May 2017, 19:00 Lecture room 301 Abstract Crafting narratives is about ‘making’ projects. Crafting narratives stresses the idea of how we react to a brief beyond the fulfilment of the client requirements. It is about what signifies the process of the making of a project and how this is conveyed to the client,...
Design In and Out of the Vitrine: Museums and Exhibitions in Nineteenth Century Vienna by Eric Anderson Associate Professor of Art History, Rhode Island School of Design and Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar, Vienna Tuesday 4 April 2017, 19:00 Lecture Room 301, Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Abstract: Viennese design culture around 1870 was transformed...
Tuesday 21 March 2017, 19:00, lecture room 301 The lecture examines architecture as a body. It explores, in a historical manner, the turning points in the theorization of this corporal being, at once revealing its anthropological interconnections. Sokratis Geogriadis is an architect, professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the State Academy of Art...
tense architecture network_8+8 Kifissia-Arkalos, Piraeus I-Athens, Kallitechnoupolis-Piraeus II, Drafi-Volos, Glika Nera-Heraklion I, Megara-Neapoli, Heraklio II-Dubrovnik, Sikamino-Nicosia. The meaning of the abbreviation TAN, root of the greek verb ‘ΤΑΝ-ΥΩ’ -to stretch, tend, distend- is unconditionally surrendered to Albert Camus: ‘…immoderation is a comfort, sometimes a career… Measure on the contrary, is pure tension.’ 8+8, selection of...
Chimeric Poetics Ancient greek poetry provides us with certain poetic performance prototypes, i.e. the walker/passer-by (wanderer or shepherd) and the poet-animal (cicada, nightingale). What is the relationship in between the surrounding, material conditions, such as architecture, territory, and weather, and embodiment of the performing subject? This lecture will present architectural/poetic projects of the author and...
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Public lecture by architects: Maria Kokkinou and Andreas Kourkoulas/ “Theatre – Cinema” Tuesday 7 June /19:00/ Room 301 Information about the architects’ work is available in http://www.kokkinoukourkoulas.com/
Public Lecture Dimitra Chatzisavva Τhe topological understanding of place in contemporary architecture Tuesday 24 May, 17:00 Lecture Room 301 The concept of place in architectural discourse has been limited to interpretations that connect it to a phenomenological version, derived mainly from romantic tradition, as a concrete existential framework, that is in permanent dialectical opposition in...
Public Lecture Eleni Pavlidou Designing the non-standard Wilkinson Eyre Architects, London Monday 23 May, 20:00, theatraki Today’s generative and parametric software have enabled new relationships to be forged between the design, development and fabrication of complex, non-standard forms. Pushing the boundaries of design fabrication Eleni will use recent works that she has developed at Wilkinson...
Public Lecture and Documentary George Kontos Decumanus Tuesday 12/4/2016, 17:00 Auditorium 301 Summary The uncontrolled modernization of an age-old city is the frame of reference for Los Angeles-based *George Kontos’* video essay *Decumanus*. Inspired from *Aldo Rossi’s* *L’Architettura della Citta*, the video work revisits how in recent times recoding the minimum standards for building has...
Public Lecture Richard Whitlock Photography and the Construction of Reality. Photography, like a monoculture of vision, traps us in a single perspectival world. Richard Whitlock will propose that the experience of the image and of the world can be enriched by non-perspectival representational systems that, thanks to digitalisation, can now also be applied to photography...
Andreas Skourtis is an architect, scenographer and lecturer in Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Londoν. He is the founder and director of Performing Architectures (www.performingarchitectures.com).