PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Chair of the Department of Architecture (2020- and 2011-2013), Vice Chairman of the Department of Architecture (2009-2011 and 2015-2020) and Director, Graduate Program “Master in Architecture and Urban Design: Mediterranean Futures – Green Deal.” Professor of Architecture and Urban Design.

Diploma of Architecture with Honors, National Technical University of Athens (1989), Master in Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (1991). Fellow, Eugenides Foundation and Greek National Scholarship Foundation. Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York (2014 and 2015), Visiting Professor, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (2012-13), Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University (2009), Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York (1994).

Worked for Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York (1992-1995) and Santiago Calatrava Architects, Paris (1991). From 2002 to 2015 was Independent Expert for the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture and collaborator of A10 architecture journal in Amsterdam. Since 2015 is Regular Member of the Central Council of Modern Monuments of the Greek Ministry of Culture.

Commissioner and Curator, exhibition Tourism Landscapes: Remaking Greece, official Greek participation to the 14th International Architecture Exhibition–Venice Biennale, 2014, and editor, Tourism Landscapes: Remaking Greece (English and Greek, Athens, 2014). Joint-curator, exhibition (Rotterdam, 1999) and co-editor, Landscapes of Modernization: Greek Architecture 1960s and 1990s (in English, Athens, 1999, in Greek, Athens, 2002). Co-editor, The Contemporary (Greek) City (English and Greek, Athens, 2001), Landscapes of the Intimate (English and Greek, Athens, 1996).

In his texts he has systematically dealt with the constitution of Post-Olympic Athens and the effects of the economic crisis on the city and its public space.

His architectural work has been presented in numerous exhibitions such as: 13th International Architecture Exhibition–Venice Biennale, 2012, Athens-Scape (London, RIBA, 2003), New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Japan (Tokyo, 2002), 7th International Architecture Exhibition–Venice Biennale, 2000. His work and texts have been published in Greek and international reviews and journals: Α10, Archis, Bauwelt, Blueprint, Architecture in Greece, Domes, Ktirio, Kathimerini, To Vima etc. and publications: Athens 200 Years 200 Buildings (Athens, 2021), Made in Athens (Athens, 2012), The New Acropolis Museum (New York, 2009), Looking at European Architecture: A Critical View (Brussels, 2008), Top Young European Architects (Barcelona, 2005), The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture (London, 2004).