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EDUCATIONAL

The Pinch

Library and community center.
WarScape: An Aesthetics of Disappearance

War Museum in ‘Megalo Emvolo’ Cape
TEMPORARY

Urban Sign

1st prize in the Greek National Competition for architecture students

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS

12-04-2017 - MONOCHORD:HOUSE IN AGRIA, MAGNESIA, GREECE (2016) - (RESIDENTIAL) Greek participation for EUmiesaward 2017

19-03-2017 - Synergy Project - (INTERIOR) Contrasts materials & textures. (Christina Amanatidou)

27-02-2017 - Α house in Melbourne - (RESIDENTIAL) Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall.

17-02-2017 - Historical and Folklore Museum of Nikiti - (MUSEUM) Museographical Study | A Continuous Infrastructure

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW

24-06-2015 - Architectural critism in the context of individualism and utilitarianism.[1] - (ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW) The critical discourse of recent decades does not usually consist of an expression of opinion about works of architecture and architects in order to identify their positive and negative features. ( By Eleni Fessa-Emmanouil )

17-01-2015 - Social Spaces by a Social Architects? - (ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW) Deciphering the Proliferation of Contemporary Heterotopias. ( By Michael A. Vidalis )

COLUMNS

02-08-2015 - Innovation in wind technology - (GREEN ABLE) Research in the field of wind power has made great strides in launching on the market new, novel wind turbines that they do not renounce efficiency and face the negative environmental impacts caused by classic wind turbines. ( By Chrysa Vassilopoulou )

08-04-2015 - There's only one deadline for architects - (Arch.Comic Series) Archibald presents his design proposal to the urban development department. ( By Mike Hermans )

News

03-04-2017 - AA ATHENS VISITING SCHOOL - SYMMETRY SENTEINCE

24-02-2017 - Logo Design Contest - Logo design contest for greekarchitects.gr

11-04-2016 - The Competition Mesh: Experimenting With and Within Architecture Competitions - 6th International Conference on Competitions (ICC2016_UK). (Abstracts submission deadline May 3, 2016),(UK, October 27-29, 2016)

23-03-2016 - AA ATHENS VISITING SCHOOL 2016 - Symmetry sentience. (01 - 10 June 2016)

03-03-2016 - A SHELTER FOR ARCHITECTURE - GIANY [Greek Institute of Architects in New York] presents COCOON, an open call for ideas, which will be part of "A Shelter for Architecture".

General

22-02-2016 - European Identity. European Architecture - The role of Greece concerns only its roots, or is also a contributor in contemporary times?

17-02-2016 - AI | AA Athens visiting school 2015 - In June 2016, as part of the AA Athens | AA Istanbul Visiting School, the Architectural Association will travel to Greece to continue its advanced architectural research on biomimetic and participatory design.

13-07-2015 - Metropolitan Field Trips - The Metropolitan Field Trips explore and showcase innovations in urban development in European cities. True innovation emerges from an inventive coalition of top-down institutions and private initiative. We therefore study the relation between bottom-up City Makers, planning agencies, local government and other institutions.

27-04-2015 - Spatial Positions 9 - «Protocols of Athens» by Aristide Antonas.

12-03-2015 - Frei Otto, the winner of Pritzker Architecture Prize 2015 - Otto was an architect, visionary, utopian, ecologist, pioneer of lightweight materials, protector of natural resources and a generous collaborator with architects, engineers, and biologists, among others.

Events

03-04-2017 - AA ATHENS VISITING SCHOOL - SYMMETRY SENTEINCE

23-03-2016 - AA ATHENS VISITING SCHOOL 2016 - Symmetry sentience. (01 - 10 June 2016)

12-12-2015 - 2nd MEDNETA Conference - International Scientific Meeting on "Cross border Cultural Dialogue to return Creativity in the Mediterranean Historical Centers: Tools and Strategies". (14 December 2015)

27-04-2015 - Future of Places international conference - Within the program Metropolitan Field Trips. (29 June - 1 July 2015)

Book's review

12-03-2015 - Campo Baeza. Complete Works - A monograph on one of Spain's greatest contemporary architects, featuring projects spanning four decades of international practice.

04-03-2014 - Making Architecture: The Getty Center - Download free the book. (176 pages) Preface by Harold M. Williams; Essays by Richard Meier, Stephen D. Rountree, and Ada Louise Huxtable.

23-02-2014 - American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament - Heckscher, Morrison H., and Leslie Greene Bowman. Download free the book (306 pages)

25-07-2011 - D. Areopagitou 2008: reformation competition of the rear views of historic buildings towards the new Acropolis Museum - The greekarchitects present (free) the publication who contains the complete list of participations of the International Architectural Competition, the aim and the object of research, (172 projects) as well as texts written by critics of the competition and members of the Steering Committee as a final assessment.

06-05-2011 - On the Edge. New architectures in Cyprys - This book introduces us to contemporary architecture in Cyprus, presenting a variety of Vacation Houses, Apartment and Office Buildings

Competitions

03-03-2016 - A SHELTER FOR ARCHITECTURE - GIANY [Greek Institute of Architects in New York] presents COCOON, an open call for ideas, which will be part of "A Shelter for Architecture".

05-02-2016 - Generic Library, Specific People - 1st prize competition winner.

12-12-2015 - Central Park in Shamrock Condo, Lima, Peru - The project's site is situated in an urban populated area that is bordered from all sides from 4- levels residential buildings. Essentially this site is an open space between very limited and specific boundaries of urban structure.

24-09-2015 - Nectorium | Nectarium - Award in 2014 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture for the category of Student Work.

26-07-2015 - Panhellenic architectural concept design competition - Agios Pavlos 1st elementary school with gymnasium Neapoli/ Sykies Municipality.

Actions GRA

24-02-2017 - Logo Design Contest - Logo design contest for greekarchitects.gr

13-10-2013 - ArchitectsPlanet.Tv - A new website which daily monitors and records the changes in the field of architecture through TV productions.

10-07-2013 - Architecture in times of crisis - In the dialogue that we have started on architecture in times of crisis, we would like to invite you to answer seven questions posed by Greek architects to the international architectural community.

16-12-2010 - An architectural television channel broadcasts lively throughout the world - An important technical development in online television GRATV.gr constitutes the creation of a completed web tv control room, an important technical operation of control of the station that is transmitted all the 24 hour live streaming and on demand.

01-01-2010 - GRATV.gr - The web television of greekarchitects.gr