29/5/2019 17:00 Amphitheatre

May 13-28, 2019 | 9.00-21.00 daily
Foyer, Department of Architecture

The exhibition presents the student projects that were the outcome of the 3rd semester course BUILDING STRUCTURES II. This year the focus of the course was the research of Frei Otto (1925-2015), who was the recipient of the 2015 Pritzker Prize. The present theme was inspired by the exhibition "Thinking by Modelling" (5/11/2016 - 19/3/2017 _ ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), that presented - in more than 200 physical models and 1,000 photos - Frei Otto's research at the Institute for Lightweight Structures (IL) in Stuttgart, Germany.

The student works attempt to simulate Otto's experiments - as those are presented across the IL#25-"Experiment" booklet - by employing similar methods, that is by means of experimentation with physical models. Within this context, a broad spectrum of spatial structures is presented (cable structures, funicular arches, catenary geometries, tree-like structures, tensile membranes, pneumatics, geodesics, tensegrities, ...), thus, highlighting the variety of lightweight structures as well as the potential of the physical model as means of inquiry for structural design.

Please visit the on-line exhibition of the course projects.

Instructor: M.Vrontissi, Ass.Professor UTh

The School of Engineering, University of Thessaly will host the 7th Workshop on Research Activities, which will be held on Thursday, 23th May 2019, 09:30 - 17:15 at the Auditorium of the Department of Planning and Regional Development.

In the Workshop, the results of PhD Dissertations and Research Projects will be presented of the School of Engineering:

• Department of Architecture Engineering
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Department of Planning and Regional Development
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering

23/5/2019 18:00 room Z

22/5/2019 15:00 room Δ

22/5/2019 20:00 Amphitheatre

21/5/2019 18:00 room Δ

Thursday 18 April 15.00-18.30
Friday 19 April 2019 12.00-15.30

Department of Architecture, Patari Metaptychiakou

On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th of April 2019, in the Centre of New Media & Feminist Public Practice, the third seminar/workshop of the programme

The 3rd Seminar, ‘Discourses, Methods and Practices’ will focus on the methods and the discourses developed in the creative and cultural field and their extensions to other fields in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. A series of theoretical approaches, such as marxism, feminism, psychodynamic theory, and post-colonial critique, have shaped the cultural and creative field.  The aim of the seminar is to understand the principles and ideas that led to a series of new methods, methodologies and practices from aesthetic journalism, video-essays, relational aesthetics and aesthetic antagonism, to artistic activism.

Workshop: During the second day of the seminar will be presented audio, video, production, post-production and processing programs that will be available at the CENTER and can be used by the seminar participants to experiment, produce and process their own material.

The workshop participants, under the appropriate guidance (individually and in groups) by the Centre’s research team and in collaboration with the workshop coordinator, will have the opportunity to create their own projects to be presented in relevant exhibitions, festivals and cultural events, along with works by artists who work in this field. The participants will also receive a certificate of attendance, upon completion.

Research Program Coordinator: Elpida Karaba

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE II: 1st YEAR OF STUDIES 2018-2019

TUTORS:
PHOEBE GIANNISI, IRIS LYKOURIOTI, YORGOS MITROULIAS, YORGOS PAPAKONSTANTINOU, YORGOS TZIRTZILAKIS

GUESTS:
DR. CHRISTINA MISTOPOULOU, DEPARTENT OF HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
DR. ELSA KIOURTSOGLOU, ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE DE STRASBOURG (ENSAS)

STUDENT’S ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
KISKINI EVGENIA, MANOLAKIS YIANNIS, MICHAILIDOU VASSILIKI.

Download the program from here and for more information here.

You can download, also, files of related bibliography from the server of the Department.