School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, Volos
Opening: Friday, May 15, 2015, 20:00
Duration: May 16 - June 7
Curator: Yannis Arvanitis
Design: Orestis Argyropoulos, Marilina Metaxogeni, Dimitra Stamatiou
The Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly is organising an exhibition with graduates' works on the occasion of the 15 years of its operation. 15 years after their enrolment, a new generation of architects meet up just before 'conquering' the architectural world ...
Within the greek crisis context they still remain productive and they extend their architectural practice beyond built projects into other fields too: graphic design, stage design, art, small-scale design, costume design, online and digital applications and theory.
Participants: Orestis Argyropoulos, Yannis Arvanitis, Loukas Bartatilas, Katerina Chanioti, Niki Dimopoulou, Katerina Grigoropoulou, Nikoleta Grigoroudi, Georgia Kalantzi, Apostolos Kampouris, Kyriaki Kastrinaki, Eleni Kouineli, Eirini Kouka, Matina Kousidi, Fotini Kyriakidou, Vasia Lyri, Marilina Metaxogeni, Chrysa Nikoloutsou, Theodora Ntatsopoulou, Rodoula Papadaki, Stefanos Papadatos, Alexandra Papagianni, Evangelia Papadimitriou, Manolis Paravoliasis, Eleni Psyllaki, Giorgos Sarmaniotis, Angeliki Sioli, Dimitra Stamatiou, Katerina Stasinopoulou, Filiana Stefanakaki, Maria Stragalinou, Chrysafeni Theodoulou, Nearchos Theodoulou, Chrysostomos Tsimourdagas, Stella Tsiontsi
30/4, 12:00, Dept. Arch
Fabiano Micocci is an architect working on the intertwined relationships existing between public spaces and landscape, architecture and geography, with a special focus on the Mediterranean region.
He is a founding member of NEAR architecture, a network of architects working on small and large scale design as well as theoretical research that in 2013 received the NIB Prize for the best landscape Italian practices.
He graduated from University Roma Tre in 2002 with the thesis "Study Center for the Regional Landscape Painting in the Lazio” that received the XV International Symposium of Urban Culture award at Camerino, Italy. His PhD degree, obtained from the University of Florence (2010) with the thesis “Mediterranean Topographies: Giovanni Michelucci, Fernando Tàvora and Dimitris Pikionis and the idea of the Mediterranean during 1945-1964”, was focused on the shift of architectural discourse about the Mediterranean after WWII.
He has participated in several international conferences and workshops and has taken part in various international architectural competitions, receiving several prizes.
In the 2013-214 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University of Beirut, teaching design studios and theory of architecture. Actually he is Associate at Urban Transcripts and part of the on-going "Inclusive urban strategy and action plan for for Bab-Al Tabbaneh, and Jabal Mohsen", a strategic development plan for the city of Tripoli (LEB) experiencing strategic planning, environmental sustainability, empowerment and participation in a post-conflict area. He currently works in Italy, Greece and Lebanon.
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
A lecture by Christof Mayer about the spatial practice of raumlaborberlin, explained through a series of projects.
raumlaborberlin is a group of 8 architects based in Berlin, founded in 1999. We work at the intersections between architecture, urban planning and art by means of performative, temporary interventions.
The focus of raumlaborberlin’s works is urban transformarrations and relationships between private and public space. Leftover and difficult to handle urban situations attract us. Artistic and architectural interventions serve us as tools of communication and open up new perspectives for alternative uses, collective ideals, urban diversity as well as difference. We explore and use what we find; the condition of the place and consolidate alliances between local actors and external specialists. The goal is an architecture that succeeds in melting space with subjective experiences, that lets people discover new qualities and leads to an alternative understanding of the city.
Our working method is interdisciplinary and combining different genres. We organize selected teams of experts for each project, linking members of raumlaborberlin with external specialists as needed. Our view of architecture doesn’t only connect to the build environment but rather to an experimental building laboratory for a participatory practice within the public realm. Architecture becomes the tool for finding and inventing the city of possibilities.
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Tutors: Kostas Moraitis, Theoklis Kanarelis, Kostas Manolidis
6-23/3/2015
13/3/2015, 18:00, Dept. Arch Amphitheatre
Gonzalo García-Rosales, architect, professor of the Graphic Design Department at the School of Architecture of Madrid, and professor of the Department of Architecture at the University of Alcalá.
From mid fifties to mid sixties Spain lived one of its most interesting periods in visual arts, music, cinema and architecture. Walking together in common synergy and merging into similar proposals, projects and ideas, these experimental manifestations have influenced actual art, cinema and architecture, something still not plainly admitted.