Nikolas Patsavos (Athens, 1977), co-founder of Ctrl_Space lab in Athens, has studied architecture in Thessaloniki, the AA and the BSR, while, since 2013 he has been conducting doctoral research at UTH. Since 2003, he has been teaching architecture architectural theory and design at the AA, Chania and Volos in Greece and Nicosia in Cyprus. He has been collaborating with research programmes conducted by the NTUA, TUC-Chania and private companies in the field of production, energy and constructions. He has written and lectured widely on architecture as a cultural field and participated-organised a series of theory and design workshops in London (AA), Chania and Athens. His publications include "SURFACE/ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΑ" (EAAE, co-edited with Yiannis Zavoleas)and his articles at the e-journal CY-ARCH. Since 2000, he has been working as a freelance architect based in London and Athens.

The research steams from the realisation of a severe lack of both archival and critical research on modern greek architectural education. In parallel, it is suggested that, any attempt of reform of the present condition should be based on an analytical understanding of its past, its identity and discursive formation at the critical point of the Interwar Period. The general period at hand is that between 1928 and 1940, a period related to events of dramatic impact on the political, academic and architectural fields. The research works closely on an extensive institutional archive which gets first re-ordered and then discussed by means of a three-partite perspective: political autonomy, academic autonomy and architectural autonomy. The overall hypothesis is that this is a process closely related to the wider modernisation project historical; a project, though, that has never been completed. In that sense, we are allowed to explain the ways the School of Architecture and the Modern Greek Architect Engineer, its main discursive product, has been part as well as an agent and a figure of Modern Greece's construction.

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