8/5/23 14:00 room Γ
Τhis week's lecture will be held on Thursday 04/05/2023 at 19:00 [UTC+3] by AgwA Architecture office, based in Brussels (Belgium), entitled "Economy of means, really?".
Lecture by the architect - urban planner Evgenios Balasis entitled: "Urban micro-homes in Thessaloniki under economic crisis". Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., in room Δ.
The lecture takes place in the context of Architectural Composition IV-V I B: Hybrid Ecologies (2022/23) studio taught by Sophia Vyzoviti, Professor, Dept. Architecture, UTH.
Abstract
Evgenios Balasis, architect - planner, discusses the reuse of the city's abandoned small shops and their transformation into ground-floor microhome lofts. The presentation displays a case study (Balasis & Dova architects) unfolding the entire process, from the acquisition of an 18 sq.m. shop, to its return to the real estate market as a loft studio, as well as some similar urban microhomes, designed and built in Thessaloniki by the architects S. Georgelis, E. Balasis, M. Mylonas and I. Nikolaidis.
Short CV
Evgenios Balasis holds a diploma in Architecture from the School of Architecture, AUTH (2003) and a master in Techniques & Methods of Spatial Analysis, Planning & Management from the Faculty of Engineering, AUTH (2009). He is a registered architect and a certified planner, experienced on governmental land planning, town planning, industrial zones, housing and urban regeneration projects in Greece, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, and United Arab Emirates, but also designed private houses as a freelancer. As an adjunct lecturer (2016-2019), taught Land Planning and Environmental Design in Real Estate Valuation and Development programme - NUP, Cyprus. He is awarded in architectural competitions related to public space, participated in research projects, and presented papers regarding spatial planning, urban policies, public spaces and urban diffusion. His works have been published in proceeding volumes and scientific journals. Evgenios is currently freelancing as an architect and real estate consultant in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Lecture and Workshop: "Collaborative Urban Practices. Common infrastructures of open planning and tactical urban planning"
2/5/2023 14:00
27/4/23 11:00 room Γ & Teams
27/4/23 15:00 Amphitheatre
26/4/23 18:00 room Γ & Zoom
26/4/23 14:00 room Δ
25/4/23 11:00 room Ε
Francoist architecture in Spain: problems of use, conservation and restoration in democracy.
David Martin Lopez
Lecture summary
Spain, just like the rest of the democracies emerging from dictatorships and totalitarian regimes in a large part of Europe around the 20th century, has adopted or can adopt different attitudes and is open to different interpretations on the problematic cultural legacy inherited by this past. This has been, and still is, a matter of dispute and its integration as a part of a collective memory of the past has not been resolved in a satisfactory manner in our society today. The objective of this lecture is to analyse the architecture created during the Franco dictatorship which represent the glorification of this political regime and the actions that should be taken (conservation, modification, destruction, use, etc.) to adapt them to ethical and legal requirements as demanded by the democratic system in Spain. The above research is part of the R&D&I project Heritage and the Memory of Francoism: Conservation or Resignification in Democratic Spain (PAMEFRA). PID2019-111709GB-I00. MINISTERIODE CIENCIAE INVESTIGACIÓN.
Short CV
David Martín López holds a European PhD in Art History by the University of Granada (2010), with the Outstanding Doctorate Award. He is professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Granada where he directs the Universitarian Cultural Centre of Casa de Porras, Vice-rectorate of Outreach and Heritage. He has done several academic stays in England, France and Portugal. In those countries he did his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Univ. Nova de Lisboa (2011-2013), granted by the Spanish Ministry. His research activities are focused on the Freemasonic aesthetics, architecture during the European regimes and hermetic symbolism and subversion in Art History. He is co-director of the Spanish R+D+I PID2019-111709GB-I00.PAMEFRA. patrimonio y memoria del franquismo, and member of the Spanish R+D+I projects HAR 2009-10554/Arte campo artístico y sociedad en España. (2010-2013), and HAR 2012-31321: El artista y el dolor (2012-2015), ECSTRA European Project, Project Rimon-Sefarad B-HUM-227-UGR18. He has been part of Academic Sessions of the EAUH in Lyon, Prague and Rome, or the EAA at Barcelona (2018), and has participated in DOCOMOMO’s Conference at Slovenia (2018). He has edited the book Between categories, beyond boundaries: Arte, ciudad e identidad (2013) and Suffering in Contemporary Art (2018).