Postgraduate Courses of Studies, DArch - UTH.
The course Contemporary Practicies in Art and Architecture takes part in the exhibition Collecting Architecture – Territories: The Athens Minutes presenting the Post-graduate Students' works, in collaboration with Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP) and DESTE Foundation.
DESTE Foundation, Athens
Em. Pappa & Filellinon, N.Ionia, Athens
June 20 – October 31, 2012
blog of the course
The educational voyage to the central Europe was accomplished between the 23rd and the 30th of September, 2012.
The aim of the voyage was the visit to, the comprehension and the on-sight exploration of every and all specific properties of the achivements of contemporary architectural practice, the visit to the Biennale of Architecture and the experience of crossing the landscapes while exploring visually and verbally (through constand long discussions) their identities. Additionally, the territories where the western civilization model of life is flourishing. The cities, the habitats, the fine details of setllements. There were 20 participants in the voyage that last 5 days, crossing through Italy, germany, Austria and Swicherland.
The buildings targeted and visited were:
1.Conferenz Pavillion/1993 by Tadao Ado, the Vitra Design Museum/1989 and the Vitra Atelier/2003 by Frank Gehry, the Bushaltestelle/2006 by Jasper Morrison, the Vitra Haus/2010 by Herzog&DeMeuron, the Produktionshallen/1981 by Nikolas Grimshaw, the Tankstelle/2003 by Jean Prouve, the Dome/2000 by Richard Buckminster Fuller, the Produktionshallen/1994 by Alvaro Siza, theProduktionshallen/2010 by SANAA Kazuyo Sejima and the Feuerwehrhaus/1994 by Zaha Hadid, at the area of VITRA INDUSTRIES/GERMANY.
2. E-Science Lab/ETH by Baumschlager & Eberle, Schulhaus/Leutshenbach by Christian Kerez, Housing Complex / Brunnenhofstrasse by Gigon & Guyer, at the area of the city Zurich, in Switzerland.
3. The civil cultural complex Festspielhaus by Dietrich & Undertrifaller, and the Kunsthaus by Peter Zumthor, at the area of the city Bregenz, in Austria. Finally, the 13th Biennale of Architecture in the city of Venice and the interior manipulation and design of Punta della Dogana by Taadao Ado. Additionally, the crossing of the Adriatic sea (Igoumenitsa-Venice), the crossing of the Alpes (Zurich-Insbruch-Tredo-Veneto-Venice/Lido di Jesollo) and the national road between Venice and Milan in Italy.
The publication "Changing Landscapes", contains the results of the IP Erasmus Workshop "Changing Landscapes - Mediterranean Sensitive Areas Design, Volos 2011" which took place at the Department of Architecture - UTH, between 2nd and 16th of July 2011.
Edited by:
Lois Papadopoulos, Spiros Papadopoulos, Vaso Trova
Published & Destributed by:
University of Thessaly Press
ISBN:
978-960-9439-11-4
•TEACHING
Iordanis Stylidis, Assistand Professor, Department of Architecture, Thessaly University.
•GEOGRAPHY / TIME
Saturday 25 August till Friday 31 August, 2012.
Community of Vassara, Municipality of Vassaras, Lakonia Highlands, Parnon mountain.
•TASK: SPATIAL QUESTIONS
The last seven years there have been 9 regional, international and multinational documentation and design workshops. These workshops were based on the experimental verification, by empirical means, of the validity of symbiosis (leaving and acting together into a communal environment).
The workshops are triggered by an invitation held by a community in the Greek periphery. The group of students and professors (already into a new un-explored place and a unique landscape) dedicate each and every activity (lectures, field reconnaissance, designs, texts) or means to effectively deal with a given spatial question. Thus, every member is becoming the vital unit of a team working process aiming to reach a result, combining the personal ability with the communal need, interpreting and correlating with locus, landscape, cultural syntax and stereotypes… an attempt to verify a memorandum defining Eutopia (…a term been given by Luis Mamford in his epic book : The history of Utopias.)
•TEAM
The workshop is open to undergraduate students in the last years of their studies, to graduate students and to young architects (who have graduated in the last five years). Participants, 12 in total, will be selected on CV / portfolio basis.
•ACCOMMODATION
The team will be host at the community of Vassaras. Participation price 80e.
•APPLICATION
Send the application to stilidis1@otenet.gr till late June.
The Businesses Chair of “Landscape and Tourism” of the Higher School of Architecture of the University of Malaga (Spain), announces the IV INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
LANDSCAPE “CITY AND PORT” with the collaboration of the Schools of Architecture of:
REGGIO CALABRIA | EL CAIRO | GRANADA | THESSALY | MADRID | MARSELLA | PAMPLONA | PARIS (Villette) | RABAT | ROMA (Sapienza) | SEVILLA | SIRACUSA | VALENCIA
The main aim of this International Workshop on Landscape will raise an appropriate balance between theoretical and practical reflection of the project as “intermediate scale”, recovering the necessary dialogue between the scales of architecture and planning of our cities and territories. This combination of esthetical and practical values, try to discover the elements of the existing architectural and urban culture through the action of the intervention of the project.
For more information and participation guidelines, please contact Assoc. Professor Spiros Papadopoulos.
Saratsi Hall, University of Thessaly
25-27 May 2012
Read the programme or visit the conference's website.
The eighth Documentation and Design Workshop was activated at the area of Kerkini lake, after an invitation held by the communal welfare administration of the Municipality of Irakleia, between the 26th of April and the 2nd of May. The workshop was managed and directed by Iordanis Stylidis, Assistand Professor of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. Eleven students participate and work for six days to scout and identify the area of the lake and the embankment and, furthermore, to design small scale structures for observation and daily habitation. See the poster.
Presentation of the output of the research project "The contemporary cultural greek landscape: an aerial atlas". Research output is available at www.greekscapes.gr and there is also a publication by Melissa publishers.
poster & publication information (in greek)
European Workshop Waterfront Urban Design,"Urban Waterfronts", Lisbon, 18-31 March 2012.
This Intensive Program has the following objectives:
Generate a methodology to contribute for sustainable development of port cities.
Allow port cities authorities to exchange management visions and common practices that succeed to re-establish its relation with water, improving environmental conditions while supporting the port activity.
Discuss the influence of geographic and historical factors on the present situation of ports and cities, and produce cartographic records of the transformation of the waterfront.
Understand that former industrial waterfronts are potential sites of continuity for urban morphology.