1st Thessaloniki International Biennale of Architecture - Catalogue

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1st International Architecture Biennale Thessaloniki 2012 Architecture and the City in SE Europe ORGANISED BY School of Architecture AUTh Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Goethe-Institut UNDER THE AUSPICES of the Municipality of Thessaloniki IN COLLABORATION WITH 5 Museum’s Movement in Thessaloniki PRESIDIUM Yiannis Boutaris, Mayor, City of Thessaloniki Andreas Kourakis, Deputy Mayor in charge of Urban Planning George Papakostas, Professor, Head of School of Architecture AUTh Xanthippi Scarpia Heupel, Pr. Emeritus AUTh President of the Board of Directors, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Peter Panes, Director of Goethe Institut, Thessaloniki

ORGANISING COMMITTEE George Papakostas, Professor, Head of School of Architecture AUTh Dimitris Fragos, Professor, Vice-head of School of Architecture AUTh Evangelia Athanassiou, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture AUTh Anastasios Tellios, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture AUTh Stavros Vergopoulos, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture AUTh COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis, Professor, School of Architecture AUTh Aristi Papadopoulou, Professor, School of Architecture AUTh Konstantinos Spiridonidis, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture AUTh

http://skgarch2012.web.auth.gr ISBN 978-960-9717-15-1 © 2013, School of Architecture A.U.Th, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Goethe-Institut and the Curators © of the texts / the writers © of the works / the participating architects and artists

Catalogue EDITORS Korina Filoxenidou, Katerina Kotzia

TRANSLATIONS Helen Emmanouil

GRAPHIC DESIGN Fotini Filoxenidou

PROOFREADING (intro texts) Stephanie Bertrand, Independent Curator

PHOTOGRAPHS Thanos Kartsoglou, Seagull Works

PRINTING Skordopoulos BINDING Trikaliaris

Exhibition CURATORS / DESIGNERS Korina Filoxenidou Katerina Kotzia VISUAL COMMUNICATION Fotini Filoxenidou COORDINATION / COMMUNICATION Helen Emmanouil, Secretariat, School of Architecture AUTh Maro Psyrra, Art Historian - Curator, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Katerina Syroglou, Art Historian - Curator, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Ioanna Souroudi, Art Historian, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Christina Biermann, Coordinator for Cultural Events at Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Efthimia Fragou, School of Architecture AUTh WEBSITE MAINTENANCE Konstantinos Pavlidis, Technical Staff, School of Architecture AUTh Michalis Tilkeridis, Web Developer EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES

TECHNICAL SUPPORT Periklis Galanos, Exhibition Technician Stelios Theodoridis / Stefanos Stathakis, Technicians, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Dimitris Kontakis / Panayiotis Koutsoubas, Technicians, Teloglion Foundation of Art AUTh Museum of Byzantine Culture Giorgos Alexandris / Ioannis Konstantinidis / Ioannis Lagos / Technicians, Museum of Byzantine Culture Yiorgos Efstathoulidis, Production Manager, State Museum of Contemporary Art Kostas Kosmidis, Electrical Engineer, State Museum of Contemporary Art Stephanos Apostolidis, Electrician, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Christos Kehayias, School of Architecture AUTh Dimitris Matthelis, Department of Civil Eng. AUTh Nikos Tsatakis / Aggelos Makoulis / Konstantinos Hatzakis / Yiannis Betas, Painters CAFÉ MMCA Francesca Heupel / Anastasia Keltsou CLEANING Yana Stamatiadou DIGITAL PRINTS Kakiousis Digital Printing Yiouvanis Dimitris ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT Diapason Entertainment Technologies DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY-VIDEO EXHIBITION Thanos Kartsoglou / Anestis Patkas, Seagull Works

SPECIAL THANKS The MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Xanthippi Scarpia Heupel, President of the Board of Directors MMCA Matoula Scaltsa, Member of the Board of Directors MMCA Maria Triantafyllidou, Director MMCA The ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director, AMTH Agni Apostolidou, Archaelogist - Museologist Maria Loukma, Architect The MUSEUM OF BYZANTINE CULTURE Sousanna Choulia-Kapeloni, Director MBC Stamatios Hondroyannis, Archaeologist - Deputee Director MBC Katerina Biliouri, Archaeologist - Museologist Anastasios Sinakos, Archaeologist The STATE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Katerina Koskina, President SMCA Maria Tsantsanoglou, Curator SMCA Chryssa Zarkali, Cleo Gousiou, Department of Public Relations & Communication SMCA The TELOGLION FOUNDATION OF ART AUTH Giannis Mylopoulos, President Alexandra Goulaki-Voutyra, General Secretary Panayotis Bikas, Art Historian - Curator VOLUNTEERS, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE A.U.Th Matina Kapsali, Vangel Koukov, Anna Maria Papoutsopoulou, Katerina Saraptzian, Nancy Tzioutziou VOLUNTEERS, INTERUNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME MUSEOLOGY Paris Panagiotaras

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Participating Schools Faculty of Architecture, University SS. Cyril and Methodius / Skopje The University of Architecture and Urbanism ‘Ion Mincu’ / Bucharest Frederick University, School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts / Nicosia Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana / Tirana Department of Architecture, Technical University of Crete / Chania Iuav University of Venice / Venice School of Architecture, Polytechnic of Bari / Bari University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture (a) / Belgrade Department of Architecture, University of Patras / Patra Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus / Nicosia University of Bologna / Bologna University of Thessaly, School Of Engineering, Department of Architecture / Volos University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture (b) / Belgrade Istanbul Kultur University / Istanbul School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Thessaloniki University of Nicosia, Architecture Department / Nicosia University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Architecture / Sarajevo School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens / Athens Istanbul Technical University / Istanbul Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Architectural Engineering / Xanthi Interior and Environmental Design Department, Kadir Has University / Istanbul

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Parallel Events

1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki entitled Architecture and the City in South East Europe, 18/1-26/2/2012.

Press conference at the City Hall of Thessaloniki, Friday 13/1/2012 Dear friends, It is a great honor and pleasure for the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to be participating along with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki entitled Architecture and the City in South East Europe, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut The event has been organized under the auspices of Thessaloniki’s Municipality.

Inaugurated in 2012, an anniversary year for Thessaloniki, it is part of a series of events organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism called Thessaloniki 2012, Southeastern Europe, Cultural Crossroads. It should be noted that Thessaloniki’s 1st International Architecture Biennale is an important cultural institution, not only for the city of Thessaloniki but also for the country.

Certainly, as an implementation process and resulting event, the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki has never tried to be and was never born in the purple. On the contrary, it was an arduously, spontaneous and self-actualized project that involved a two year creative collaboration between individuals and institutions from the educational and cultural sectors, including the School of Architecture, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Goethe Institut, and the Municipality, who jointly worked to this long-term initiative through productive planning and implementation leading to an exceptional result, in spite of the times.

The 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki is being presented during an anniversary year of major importance for the city and it has emerged as a privileged location for an expanded and fruitful multi-cultural discussion concerning the role of architecture in the modern city, in the wake of globalization, environmental degradation and economic crisis.

22 Schools of Architecture from 17 cities of Southeastern Europe have creatively para multiplicity of fertile, enduring and multifaceted approaches to the subject, in architecture education, in their School and in their city.

This event is an opportunity for joint experiences, an opportunity for dialogue, an opportunity - among other things - for the creation of a network of Schools of Architecture aiming to plan future joint actions in the name of architecture and culture.

It is widely known that in all countries, professors or groups of professors and students of Architectural Schools are involved in the planning and urban design of their cities, are active in the formation and the development of educational and cultural institutions.

They organize the participation of the city in major cultural events, plan important artistic interventions, buildings and public spaces and participate in the implementation of many architectural competitions concerning areas or buildings in the city.

As D.A Fatouros stressed in 1993, in his book entitled Thessaloniki: Survival or a big city “A city is not an engineering structure, it is not the solution for some of the serious

problems of the city, nor the development of certain entrepreneurial forces, it is the overall development of its culture”1.

Culture here refers to the multiplicity of its establishments, not only as a creative activity but as a perspective for policy-making as well and as a component of the quality of life in the city and its housing complexes.

History and Nature are being introduced under new terms to the culture of the area, to urban design and architecture2.

The 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki entitled Architecture and the City in South East Europe includes a large Architectural exhibition on the same at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, and will be held at the exhibition halls of the 5 Museums (Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Teloglion Foundation of Art, AUTh) until February 26.

Participants include twenty two architectural schools from seventeen cities throughgrade, Skopje, Bucharest, Nicosia, Athens, Volos, Patra, Chania, Xanthi and of course Thessaloniki. Each architectural school entertains a special, varied and multifaceted relationship with the culture of its city and this shared characteristic constitutes the As the host institution of this event, the School of Architecture of the Faculty of Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the only participant whose contribution differs from the others. Rather than present the results of the School’s Program of Studies through the students’ projects, it has opted to organize an active workshop entitled City cracks! Architecture in the cracks of the city which will be held before and during the exhibition at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, from research and creative process, will serve as the exhibit.

As clearly enunciated in its subject line: “The workshop will attempt to explore the contemporary urban experience through its expression in public space. Starting with the diverse and multifaceted experience of the modern metropolis, the workshop will investigate the role of design in the emergence of fertile ruptures in the non-negotiable context of contemporary urban conditions; ruptures that allow for the emergence of Nature, Culture and History, the negotiation of a coexistence with heterogeneity and the “other”, the unfolding of creativity, and the claim to collectivity in the city under crisis”.

The intensive workshop includes twenty students from the School of Architecture of the Faculty of Engineering of AUTh, three tutors (Evangelia Athanasiou, Anastasios Tellios, Stavros Vergopoulos) and a jury of three professors (Aleka Alexopoulou, Alkmini Paka and Rena Sakellaridou).

1 Fatouros D. A. Thessaloniki, Survival or a Big City. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 1993.

2 Interview of D.A Fatouros to G. Simeoforidis with the title: “Thessaloniki: Survival or a Big City: Discusunfamiliar city”, Outdated editions, Athens 1993, special edition, volume1, pp. 41- 48.

The exhibition entitled Architecture and the City in South East Europe will open with three days of presentations and events beginning with an Open Discussion on

temporary Art. A keynote speech by architect Elias Zenghelis, professor at the Institute of Berlage (Postgraduate Studio of Architecture) in Rotterdam, on Urban Interventions: From Public to Common Space will follow. zariston, where the State Museum of Contemporary Art will hold the opening of a Composition-Construction-Production. Russian Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art. The 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki on Architecture and the City in South East Europe tion entitled Young Architects from Germany, a series of urban actions in various public spaces throughout Thessaloniki entitled Urban Games, an exhibition-presentation on The Studio of Architectural Education, a lecture on Public Space and City Rehabilitation Improvement Projects of Ljubljana - and a small colloquium entitled Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir.

The extremely interesting exhibition Young Architects from Germany will be presented at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is produced and realized by the Institute of Foreign Cultural Affairs (IFA) and the Federal Chamber of Architects (BAK) of Germany and will open on Wednesday 18/2 at 19.30.

The urban actions in public spaces throughout the city’s historical center entitled, Urban Games, is organized by Socrates Stratis, Professor of the School of Architecture of the University of Cyprus and a team of forty volunteers from the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art’s educational programme.

In the exhibition-presentation entitled The Studio of Architectural Education Professor Ferhan Yuerekli and Professor Irem Falay, from the School of Architecture of ITU (Istanbul Technical University) will present their version of architectural research and teaching. The lecture on Public Space and City Rehabilitation Improvement Projects of Ljubljana by Karel Pollak, professor of the School of Architecture of Ljubljana and an executive member of the local municipal government, will present proposals for urban design within the medieval core of his city. Finally a conference entitled Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir will be presented as a special event at the Teloglion in collaboration with the Museum’s friends.

More information about the 1st Biennale of Architecture in Thessaloniki and the three-day program of presentations and events can be found on the exhibition’s website: http://skgarch2012.web.auth.gr/ The Organizing Committee for the 1st Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki is comprised of: George Papakostas, Professor and Head of the School of Architecture of AUTh, Dimitris Fragos, Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Architec-

ture AUTh, Evangelia Athanasiou Assistant Professor, Anastasios Tellios, Assistant Professor and Stavros Vergopoulos, Assistant Professor. The Committee of Public and International Relations for the 1st Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki is comprised of: Aristi Papadopoulou, Professor, Dinos Spiridonidis, Assistant Professor, Sophia Tsitiridou, Associate Professor and Vilma Hastaoglou, Professor. The curators and designers of the 1st Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki are architects Katerina Kotzia and Korina Filoxenidou.

The design of the visual communication is provided by Fotini Filoxenidou. The secretarial and administrative support was carried out by Christina Biermann and Helen Emmanouil. The Technical Support for the website is provided by Michalis Tilkeridis and Konstantinos Pavlidis. The implementation of the exhibitions was realized by Periklis Galanos and George Kosmidis of Diapason Entertainment Technologies. The printing was done at Kakiousis Digital Printing, Yiouvanis Dimitris and at the printing company of George Skordopoulos. As part of this event, students participated voluntarily from our School of Architecture and also from the Postgraduate Program in Museology. On behalf of the School of Architecture, I sincerely thank you all.

On behalf of the School, as the Head of the School of Architecture, I would like to express my gratitude to Thessaloniki’s Mayor Yannis Boutaris, and Deputy Mayor of Urban Planning and Network planning, Andreas Kourakis, for integrating the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki under the auspices of the Municipality.

I would also like to thank the Minister of Culture and Tourism Pavlos Yeroulanos and Antigoni Dounavi for incorporating the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki in the Ministry’s program of events entitled: Thessaloniki 2012, Southeastern Europe, Cultural Crossroads.

Finally, on behalf of the School of Architecture, I would like to sincerely thank the Director of the Goethe Institut, Peter Panes and the Director of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Professor Emeritus, Xanthippi Scarpia-Heupel for their exceptional collaboration and their contribution to the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki.

Dear friends, Let’s all wish great success to the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki.

George N. Papakostas Head of the School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering of AUTh

2012 marks the 100 anniversary of the liberation of the city of Thessaloniki as well as the First edition of the Architecture Biennale, which aims to become a tradition and to create a new chapter in the city’s multicultural events. As an Emeritus Professor and former Head of the School of Architecture of AUTh, to me this occasion represents This great architectural event was initiated through the dynamic intervention of the School of Architecture’s current Head, Mr. G. Papakostas, and has been made possible through the active participation of the School’s faculty members, the Macedonian support of Goethe Institute and lastly the undivided support of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Architecture and the City in Southeast Europe. This major event, which inaugurates the start of the city’s anniversary year, is presented within the framework of Thessaloniki 2012, Southeastern Europe, Cultural Crossroads.

Public anniversaries are an occasion to evoke memories of the past, to contemplate the present and to plan for the future. Therefore, these cultural events are not random coincidences, because randomness is not an element of planning. As with preceding Biennales which act as the bearers of new thoughts and ideas, this Biennale was conceived as a latent idea two years ago amongst many imponderable factors, in order

of interest that threaten our living space, the initial idea for the biennial evolved into a productive design, deriving mainly from the conclusion that there was a need of such events in our city. A city which, until the 1950s-60s, was a living museum of archiDue to the political and economic conditions of the past decades, the urban environment of the city has changed, in a functional but also in an aesthetic sense, and lost one of its strongest cards with the unlimited and morphologically uncontrollable use of monolithic apartment blocks. While referring to the past without wanting to criticize, we should focus on the recent emergence of notable cultural events mentioned above, as opposed to the ghosts of lost cultural opportunities, such as the EXPO, and the continuous postponement of the Thessaloniki International Fair’s design program.

Along with the negative there are also positive aspects to these changes, including the development of the city’s eastern and western areas, the establishment of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, bike-lanes and the metro, as well as future plans for trams and maritime transport. In Thessaloniki, there are hopeful signs that point towards a substantial improvement of its citizens’ quality of life.

Furthermore, through noteworthy presentations and events in museums and art galleries that have taken various forms, architecture has acquired the place that it deserves, both in terms of urban planning and design, as well as in the exhibition programs of museums.

The people of Thessaloniki can attend and get acquainted with international views on new developments in the arts. Why should we be actively present and co-partners in

such quality large-scale events? To quickly generate new ideas, creative ideas, using novel formats. We are here to break the barrier of distrust; to dissolve negative perceptions, oblivious to the fear of uncertainty which tends to dominate us, by believing and hoping in the future recovery of our society.

Our history is full of events that weaken us but we do not back down because we have

I would like to thank Mayor Yannis Boutaris and Deputy Mayor Andreas Kourakis; as well as the Director of the Goethe Institut, Peter Panes, for his substantial contribution to the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki in coordinating the assistance of Southeastern European Goethe Institutes, and also for the parallel exhibition of Young German Architects, realized with the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA) and the Federation Chamber of German Architects (BAK). The exhibition presents 14 tion, urban planning, landscape architecture, and interior design.

I also wish to extend special thanks to the two curators of the Biennale, Korina Filoxenidou and Katerina Kotzia, and also to the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art members, to the Student volunteers and to all the executive members of MMCA, especially to the Head of the School of Architecture George Papakostas for his excellent collaboration.

Xanthipi Skarpia Hoipel President of the Board of Directors MMCA

In April 2010, the directors and the cultural managers of the Goethe Institutes of South-Eastern Europe met in Thessaloniki in order to discuss and coordinate their actions and also get acquainted with the Goethe-Institute Thessaloniki, the city and the collaborating institutions. In the framework of this meeting, we visited the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and met with its President, Mrs. Xanthippi Scarpia-Heupel as well as with the Head of the School of Architecture AUTh, Mr. George Papakostas. This meeting led to the realization of the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki in which the South-Eastern Europe Goethe’s Institutes participated, coordinated by the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki. The Institutes from Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Macedonia, FYROM, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey and Greece supported the participation of the Schools of Architecture in the Biennale, contributing in this way to the network of Architecture Biennials that take place in the broader region.

Peter Panes Director Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki

We would like to thank the Organizers of the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki and especially George Papakostas and the School of Architecture, for giving us the opportunity to be involved in the creation of such an important institution, as well as Xanthippi Scarpia-Heupel for her continuous and inspiring presence through this process. Special thanks are also due to all the participants in this Biennale and to the students that worked voluntarily in order to make this project possible.

The 22 schools of architecture participating in this Biennale, trace a broad spectrum of architectural concepts and vision, such as the major themes of time, habitation, history, memory, scale, collectivity, commons, adaptive reuse, community and privacy - always in relation with urban space and with the city itself.

All contributing institutions were encouraged to create their installations, for this particular event and for this particular meeting.

The drawings, models, performances and video presentations displayed around the schools to the urban discussion. We hope that each participation had a good chance to inside their own academic hinterland.

Despite the broad geographic diffusion of the 22 schools and the historic difference of their academic backgrounds, we have the feeling of a community structured around focal architectural questions. These can potentially be echoed, through the unexpected proximities and intense relations structuring the dense network that connects together the dispersed islets, in the totality of the archipelago.

The structure of the show was built upon a three days ‘cascade’ of 23 sequel presentations of architectural exhibits by their authors, creating a ground of mutual exchange of ideas about architecture and its education.

As we very well know, despite the fact that architecture is always present in every conventional ‘show’. However, we are convinced, that in the course of this particular exhibition, we witnessed the expressive power of various approaches to architecture and to the city, as they are developed across South-East Europe.

We hope that in the midst of the present day crisis, the experimental proposals and problematics tabled to us by the newest generation of architects, as they are currently incubated in their schools, provide us with some kind of urban hope.

We feel that as community we do deserve such a hope, as Architecture itself deserves a restart.

Korina Filoxenidou & Katerina Kotzia Curators of the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki

Participating Schools

1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

Faculty of Architecture, University SS. Cyril and Methodius City: Skopje Reclaiming the City In the past decades cities in SEE have been passing through a period of profound change. This change has affected the cities at all levels: spatial, social and cultural.

Schools of architecture are deeply embedded in the social context and obliged to respond to it. They, too, are changing. They are not anymore institutions of linear education, but are becoming complex networks of interaction among people.

We see each school as a small city in itself, which continuously constructs exciting virtual cities that are constantly changing. from the very beginning to the diploma project. It shows different levels of consciousness about architectural space in the process of learning and the belief that architecture in the city can exist only as part of the complex intertwining of public and private spaces, in a relationship from which both acquire higher quality.

loski Aleksandar

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SK0 PJE

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The University of Architecture and Urbanism ‘Ion Mincu’ City: Bucharest VIZAVI // The Beauty of Strange Cohabitation The University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu from Bucharest participates to the “Architecture and the City in SE Europe” workshop with a special-designed project that focuses on the relationship between our University and Bucharest by touching on two complementary points: 1. Presenting the ways in which our University understands to deal with the highly complex and controversial character of Bucharest.

2. Presenting Bucharest as a highly valuable urban material for architectural In order to express these, our workshop project approaches a particular reality of Bucharest considered by us as eloquent to a certain spirit of Bucharest: the colliding realities, the cohabitation of different historical parts of the city without planned urban thinking. We will present two sites from the center of the city that contain the superposition of at least three urban historical natures: the interwar city / the communist city / the contemporary city. All these Our project focuses on the methods used in trying to come to terms with all these a single whole. Understanding this complexity is an act of constructing a method of putting the bases for any project that deals with this reality. It is an ethical attitude. It is a pedagogical objective.

Academic Supervisor: Dr. Arch. Stefan Simion, Assistant Professor // Stefan Simion, Irina Melita, architects / Laura Cristea, George Marinescu, Students of architecture

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BUC HAR EST

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Frederick University, School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts City: Nicosia Nicosia, the Default Location of Memories Frederick University is located in close proximity to the ‘buffer zone’ in Nigardens, alleys and even domestic/residential spaces. It has become both the default location for memories that people can choose not to deal with and the sion.

The emergence of invisible political boundaries has led to partition and erasure, new systems, rules and transgressions, and the appropriation of space and surface at a range of scales. Being a witness of this division has resulted ing desire, nostalgia, reminiscence, and imagination. The link between memof divided cities. This has resulted in residual spaces and structures where paradox is perceptibly present. The divided city presents a physical border, a border thicker than an imaginary line in space, where the two sides are able to confront one another with their own representations and assert their national imaginings through symbols in the landscape.

Far more than being merely the contested terrain upon which seemingly irreconcilable struggle for power, the city of Nicosia has produced its own distinctive mix of urban cultures, spatial practices, physical connections, and political institutions and above all is a place of intense creativity. It is Nicosia as a ‘contested terrain’ that forms the source of inspiration and conceptual basis of the students’ work presented for this exhibition. The projects are noteworthy in their scope, and sensitive to the city’s social and physical contexts.

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Head of Architecture Department: Professor Panayiotis Touliatos // Projects Exhibited: Nicosia within the Walls: Designing Habitation Spaces, Demetris Economides, Associate Professor / Mapping the ‘Right to the City’, Klitsa Antoniou, Associate Professor / Exploring City’s Collective Memory, Byron Ioannou, Assistant Professor, Grigoris Kalnis, Lecturer / Body as City, Delis Papadopoulos, Lecturer, Hesperia Eliadou, Visiting Lecturer / Preservation Studies of Monumental Structures, Panayiotis Touliatos, Professor, Marios Pelekanos, Assistant Professor, Nikos Georgiou, Special Teaching Staff / Exploring the City of Nicosia, Charis Christodoulou, Special Teaching Staff / Co-habitation Models, Lora Nicolaou, Visiting Professor / Visual Interventions in Public Spaces, Vasilis Iereides, Visiting Lecturer // Curated and Organized: Klitsa Antoniou // Video and Graphics Work: Christos Andreou

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Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana City: Tirana Time and the City The aim of the pavilion is to create a panorama about the research and vision of the architecture school in Tirana related to the city and urban environment.

The presentation consists of three basic lines: 1. Tradition (Past) Berat is the city that represents one of the most unique historical urban environments in the region. The features of the city are represented through a graphical analysis. In this section is presented the project PIR BERATI developed in collaboration with the ESTP in Paris (France).

2. City (Present) This section introduces the Albanian city of today by offering fragments of atmosphere and urban moments. The presentation consists of a photographical selection from the photography summer school TIRANAFIELDS that aimed a thematic exploration of the suburb of Tirana. The project was developed in collaboration with the DAU of the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy).

3. Vision (Future) Thoughts, concepts, analysis and tendencies are presented through a selection from the recent design studio projects and diploma works related to city thematic and its actual challenges. This is the prevalent section of our pavilion.

Academic Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Andrea Maliqari, PhD. Florian Nepravishta // Curators: MSc. Gjergj Ruci, MSc. Denada Veizaj, MSc. Gjergji Islami // Material source: PIR Berati DAU Tirana, ESTP Paris / TIRANAFIELDS - DAU Tirana, DAU Bari / Studio and Graduation projects - DAU Tirana / Special thanks to the participating DAU lecturers and students for their contribution.

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TIR AN A

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Department of Architecture, Technical University of Crete City: Chania The city within the contemporary social, environmental and technological environment.

The presented work is organized around three themes exploring the social, envi-

and public space and the ways these are synthesized through design. The urban void, free city space, the building as an object and the building as a node in an urban cultural and physical network, are some of the issues the theme is engaged with. The second theme looks into the environmental aspect of the city and the potential convergence of environmental architectural systems with digital form generation processes in architectural design. Environmental thinking and design cannot be looked at as a separate phase in the architectural design processes.

Integration is inevitable in an era when the climatic crisis presents itself as a maurban experience and environmental perception of the city. From the extended use of cellphones, locative media practices, augmented and layar reality, we are witnessing a time of continuous integration of the digital with the physical aspects of the city questioning the architects’ role in shaping urban experiences.

The work aims at representing the school as a place of novelty and active research, an energetic environment where continuous transmission and exchange of knowledge takes place, synthesizing the disparate phenomena of the contemporary city, bringing together interdisciplinary knowledge and research activity.

Curation and design: Panos Parthenios, Assistant Professor / Socrates Yiannoudes, Lecturer // Participation in the design and execution of the installation: Maria Nikolakaki, Iosif Petros Athanasiou, Yiannis Apostolopoulos, Nikos Papavasiliou, Nadia Anthouli, Elli Alexiou, Undergraduate students of architecture

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CHA NIA

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Iuav University of Venice City: Venice Landscape Architecture, Urban and Sustainable Design at the Università Iuav di Venezia In the context of the present social and economic crisis, the revaluation of architecture as theoretical expression and as knowledge process seems to us a In this sense it is very important to conceive an architecture of relations and not simply an architecture of objects, i.e. to study the role of architecture in a wider geographical, historical, social context and in a wider multidisciplinary context, to use architecture as a tool of knowledge and design of the spatial, physical and social transformation of the environment.

The innovative concepts of Landscape and of Sustainability have integrated our more traditional interest for the relationship between architecture and city.

The three master courses entitled “Urban Design”, “Landscape Architecture”, “Sustainable Design” has produced in the last years at the Iuav a wide range of experiences leading to innovative answers to the complexity of architectural and urban issues in the contemporary society, renewing the old tradition of our school founded in the 60’s of last century with the seminal studies by G. Samonà, A. Rossi, C. Aymonino, G. De Carlo, V. Gregotti, etc.

The projects presented at the exhibition allow to construct a partial retrospective vision of the interweaving of didactics, project research and theoretical production of our School.

The topics of the following theses seem to suggest as architecture, with its various scales, can be understood both as a tool to learn about the world of today and a means to improve tomorrow’s one. In relation to these evaluations, training of architects of the future generations can only appear decisive.

Renato Bocchi, Mauro Marzo

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Urban design/landscape architecture/sustainable design at the Università Iuav di Venezia 19 theses of the Graduate Programme in Architecture

Cross section intercepting the library space, the semi hypogeal way and the cliff Lima Ciudad Amarilla. Vertical infrastructures for Costa Verde Thesis of the Graduate Programme in Architecture, Track «Urban Design» Università Iuav di Venezia, 28.07.2011 Author: Alessandro Bonadio / Supervisor: Alberto Ferlenga

Sections of the Wharf: art spaces and agricultural work stations Archi-pelago: project for a new touristic and cultural route for the environmental art in Venice Lagoon Thesis of the Graduate Programme in Architecture, Track «Landscape Architecture» Università Iuav di Venezia, 28.03.2011 Author: Cecilia Laura Bonavia / Supervisor: Renato Bocchi Assistant Supervisor: Michela De Poli

View of the residences Legnago 2050. A Center a Mile Long. The Adige River as the Backbone of the City Thesis of the Graduate Programme in Architecture, Track “Landscape Architecture” Università Iuav di Venezia, 28.07.2011 Authors: Federica Crestani, Silvia Bortolato / Supervisor: Enrico Fontanari / Assistant Supervisor: Renato Bocchi Scenic view about the new block: new and existing buildings help each other 0.60 plus. Urban Resilience. Strategies for Sustainable Thesis of the Graduate Programme in Architecture, Track “Sustainable Architecture” Università Iuav di Venezia, 29.03.2011 Authors: Eleonora Reato, Lionella Biancon / Supervisor: Benno Albrecht / Assistant Supervisors: Mauro Frate, Luigi Schibuola, Ernesto Antonini

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

School of Architecture, Polytechnic of Bari City: Bari Forms and spaces of contemporary Mediterranean City.

Classical principles and new paradigms The School of Architecture of Bari has a consolidated tradition of studies about the architecture of the city, with special reference to the Mediterranean city.

In the section “Cities of Stone” of 10.Mostra Internazionale di Architettura of Biennale di Venezia (2006), supervised by Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri, the School expressed its idea of Mediterranean city through the illustration of some paradigmatic historical architectures, described with regard to their constitutive characters (morphological, typological, spatial and constructive).

In line with the Italian tradition of urban studies, we believe that architecture, conceived as “science of urban facts”, is still the only discipline capable, transformations. We could say that it isn’t possible for us to think of architecture without assuming its urban value. We know how to “read” this relation between architecture and city into the experience of the historical city and In our studies, the search of this form, founded on the recognition of the values of our time, is conducted through an analytical/design process based on the knowledge of the historical settlement structures. This process, through the use of the conceptual tools of the modern thought (analogy, abstraction), city and, at the same time, to maintain a relation of “critical tension” toward the historical city and its forms.

Therefore, our approach rejects the development model of the contemporary relations between “architectures”. As an alternative to this model and against to the approach that sustains it, our research proposes an idea of city based on the formal identity of its spaces/places and on their recognizability.

Among the issues addressed in our research (urban space, housing models...), the most challenging is the construction of new urban settlements in non-urbanized contexts. On this subject our research has been particularly focused in recent years trying to develop a theory. It concerns the problem of form of 30 31

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new urban expansions and it has, for us, a strategic value because it allows to express new ideas of city.

According to us, these ideas of city should be based on the understanding of the relation between city and nature. We believe, in fact, that the relation between the architectural forms of the city and the “physical” forms of nature Since nature, no longer seen as “isotropic” outer space toward which the city urban construction.

Academic supervisor: Prof. Arch. Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri (Dean of the School) // Curator: or supervisors of theses) in the elaboration and selection of the works presented in the exhibition: Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri, Attilio Petruccioli, Loredana Ficarelli, Michele Beccu, Anna Bruna Montemurro, Nicola Parisi, Antonio Riondino.

Project of a new residential settlement in the suburbs of Polignano a Mare (Apulia/Italy), studio project, A.Y. 2010-11.

Students: I. Iosca, M. Anzelmo

Project of a new residential settlement in the countryside of Castrignano del Capo (Apulia/Italy), diploma work, A.Y. 2009-10.

Supervisor: Prof. Michele Montemurro / Students: A. Mastroserio, A. Oteri, A. Polieri, C. Puglisi, R. Rotondo, G. Ruina, G. Stancarone

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture City: Belgrade All Inclusive H2O Volos Exhibition All Inclusive H2O Volos explains key elements of methodology implemented in this research by design project, consisted of theses followed by architectural design and conclusion based on its results. Program of All Inclusiveness in connection to theoretical inquiry of H2O phenomena and interpretation of water-paysage of the bay of Volos was the research background in general. Exhibition explores work of 10 students, emphasizing the case study in a form of visual essay - formal layout of each thematic approach – consisted of short video and series of spatial models.

The scope of this Master Project derives from a conceptual investigation of an architectural form and its potential in the circumstances of its space and program boundaries, as well as capacity of its autonomy. Such implication exceed the simple representation of an architectural form, emphasizing its thematic framework leading to instruments of a design of its realization and architectural notion of the particular in general or inclusive. Approach is pophy, aesthetics and theory of form, ecology and technology. Boundaries of boundaries of the scenery outline horizons of Aegean Sea chosen for spatial possible to be interpreted as imaginary or even elusive.

It means that among thematic and spatial context represented in the title of All Inclusive H2O Volos students could maintain an individual frame of design. of design principles that are, in this project, carried out from fully aesthetical autonomy of its formal appearance up to erasure authentic domains of its physical outlines.

The aim of the case study itself is to set out the thematic structure of the project through the abstraction of different elements and their contextual rela32 33

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tions. The potential of a video form is chosen to show visual capacity of the topic set between its formulation and notion with intention to be translated in possibilities for further projections.

University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture / Master Project / Academic year 2010-2011 // Di-

Website: http://allinclusive.arh.bg.ac.rs // Photos: Luka Mladenovic

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Department of Architecture, University of Patras City: Patra Groundworks the identities of public spaces manifest themselves. The exploration, through the educational process, of new approaches to the organization, design and materiality of the urban ground, highlights critical issues for contemporary urbanscapes and contribute in the discourse related to the future image of our cities.

The projects presented in this exhibition, study the transformations of the cityground through different design approaches/strategies and scales (from urban design to single buildings). They attempt, each one from its own standpoint, to produce new public situations, wherever they discover the opportunity in the city or in its periphery. Some projects use “creative urban planning” interventions into unclaimed city zones, alongside transportation networks, sea fronts, and other ambiguous city grounds. Other proposals experiment with morphogenetic processes, programmatic hybridization, and construction or material techniques. Finally, there are proposals which project an experiential relationship with the built and natural landscape, either adopting the logic of environmentally conscious “soft interventions”, in accordance with the landscape and the cyclic changes of seasons, or else, devising dramatic land geometries and narratives.

The projects on the wall are organized horizontally; there are three main thematic groups, (landmarks, axes and city border lines, residual city areas) which run diagonally along the three horizontal stripes, (see related diagram), and vertically; each project is placed in one of the three horizontal strips (above, middle, below) according to its “behaviour” and position in relation to the ground level (raised, levelled to the city ground or going underground).

Nevertheless, this is a loose categorization, as it is evident, that in many cases the categories overlap and the projects defy strict grouping.

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oretical theses), containing research work of our students on subjects related to urban phenomena, submitted recently in our school.

The body of work presented occupies a geographical area that covers the whole of South-Eastern Europe (Nicosia, Athens, Patras, Aegean, sites in Italy), and we aim to highlight the connections of those various locations with the place where these projects originate from, the Architecture School of Patras. The visitors of the exhibition are escorted by images and fragments of the colloquial life within the school, the presence of students and academic staff, and familiar (to us) images of the landscape surrounding our School.

Academic Supervision: Yannis Aesopos // Design and Curating: Konstantinos Grivas, Agapi Proimou // Assistants: Aimilia Kritikou, Miriam Paraskevopoulou, Konstantinos Petrakos, Christina Tsouma, Vassilis Vavougyios

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Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus City: Nicosia Design Oriented Urbanities The Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, encourages students and operate simultaneously on a territorial scale and on that of proximity. In this way, both architecture as practice and architect as part of an urban actors’ system, become part of the pedagogical culture. This is taught through various courses on a research by design approach, presented at the exhibition.

The notion of urbanity is used explicitly as the main topic of 3rd year urban design studio. That is why it was chosen as the driving force of the exhibition Design Oriented Urbanities and its pedagogical dimensions formulated by Socrates Stratis, assistant professor at the Department. The pedagogical aim behind this theoretical work lies on enrich the possibilities of architecture and urban design to get actively engaged with contemporary society issues. Furthermore, it enriches the culture of architecture as agency of change towards a political city.

A “Dictionary of Project Oriented Urbanities”* is an open archive created

by S. Stratis from student work both from a 3rd year urban design studio, concentrated on the concept of urbanity, and through an elective course on the notion of game as part of encouraging urbanity through urban design practice.

The form of the exhibition is organized in such a way as to inform further the on-going Dictionary by: relate to the theme of the exhibition Urbanity

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environments between four characteristics: accessibility, sharing, transgressing edge conditions and polarities. Through such approach three major issues were put forward. Firstly, the city could be considered as an arena of everyday spatial practices. Secondly, urbanity depends on dynamics generated by in-between urban conditions of various scales. Thirdly, the “reading� of contemporary urban space could go beyond separations such as centre vs periphery. * Stratis, Socrates, Dictionary of Project-oriented Urbanities. Public Life in In-Between Cities, international conference, Technion University, Haifa, 2010.

Academic Supervisors: Socrates Stratis, Nadia Charalambous // Expo preparation: Arch students: Savvas Anastasiou, Despo Anayiotou, Maria Christophi, Christiana Christou, Elena Constanti, Richard Holl, Ellada Patera, Chrystalla Psathiti, Maria Prodromou, Vicky Theodorou

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Bologna City: Bologna Loop_3 “Without mathematics we cannot penetrate deeply into philosophy.

Without philosophy we cannot penetrate deeply into mathematics.

Without both we cannot penetrate deeply into anything.”

Leibnitz

Mathematics provides an underlying layer for the description of reality’s inner complexity in terms of computation as well as the tools to enhance and intensify research and expression, elegantly and seamlessly linking science, art,

explore this territory ever since, using mathematics as a privileged tool for tracing systematic paths as well as enhancing their expressive language.

The installation is a self-standing object that uses mathematical trigonometric functions (explored through parametric design software) as a mean of aesthetic device, exploring a use of rationality in complex shapes that merges user spatial interaction, curvature as a structural and expressive strategy (the voluptuous ripples also strengthen the overall shape) and form as a sorting device to deploy functions (carrying 3D models, showing pictures from various projects as well as a pad to interactively explore design strategies).

“Shapes are diagrams of forces” D’Arcy Thompson “Shape determines functions, and the energetics of functions dictates the optimal structure required” from The language of shape - the role of curvature in condensed matter, Hyde and Larsson, 1997

Loop_3 explores the rationality of complex shapes joining spatial interaction, curvature as structural and expressive strategy (the voluptuous ripples give help the overall stability) and shape as sorting system for the deployment of most vertical surface parts to facilitate reading).

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deployment, creating systemic relations among the various parts differently from traditional structure-skin-ornament linear dependency (the tensioned lycra skin concurs to structural stability while the plywood core morphology

Loop_3 is a project conceived and realized by Loop_3 design team, a group of students from Architectural Design 3 course at the Faculty of Engineering, UniversitĂ di Bologna for the 1st Architectural Biennale of Thessaloniki // Supervisor: Alessio Erioli (Co-de-iT - UniversitĂ di Bologna) // Loop_3 design team: Corrado Giacobazzi, Federico La Piccirella, Alessandro Liuti, Mattia Mercatali, Roberto Monesi, Simone Rinaldi, Gianluca Tabellini, Livio Talozzi, Michele Tommasoli, Giulia Tortorella

LINKS Project presentation: http://issuu.com/ale2x72/docs/loop_3 Time lapse video of Thessaloniki installation: https://vimeo.com/43357920 VR photos of Thessaloniki installation: http://teocomi.com/vr/loop-cube/ http://teocomi.com/vr/loop-cube-2/ Loop_3 page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loop3installation

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Thessaly, Department of Architecture City: Volos Incubator Ekkolaptirio/ Greek, ek+kolápto, kolápto= to peck, ‘a place for hatching eggs’ Incubator/ Incubate/ ‘To brood upon, watch jealously’/ ‘to lie in or upon’ Cubicle/ ‘Bedroom’ from cubiculum, ‘to lie down’ from cubare Cubiclom/ ‘Dormitory sleeping compartment’, sense of ‘any partitioned Colaphus/ latin, ‘to punch’, from the greek kolaphos verb kolápto, through the latin word the words ‘coup’ in French, ‘colpo’ in Italian, ‘golpe’ in Spanish, have been generated.

Our incubator is a light and low ceiling formed by the repetitive but continuously varied pattern of a carton basket.

An ‘egg’, a fragile architectural object is placed in each basket.

The overpopulated structure stands, above our heads, as the fertile landscape/ cloud of ideas in progress.

The side of the structure we do not see is the hidden side of the incubator, production of uniform entities. is a symbolic work based on the idea of cially driven growth that attempts to freely associate the process of incubation with diverse issues related to a) horizontally structured agglomerations of the global model for touristic development in the perception and design of

Collective Work: A ‘crowd’ of almost 100 fragile architectural objects exemplifying the function of the incubator or the process of incubation is the outcome of a workshop on architectural design and the performing arts.

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All the members of the school, undergraduate and postgraduate students, phd candidates, professors, laboratory and administrative staff have been invited to contribute with their work/interpretation of the incubator they live and work in.

Curators: Evelyn Gavrilou, Iris Lykourioti, Costis Paniyiris, Lois Papadopoulos, Spyros Papadopoulos // Coordinator: Iris Lykourioti // Assistant: Angeliki Malakasioti // Lighting: Aris Tsagrasoulis // Technical Assistance: Kostas Valatsos, Loukas Bakas, Giorgos Berdos, Anastasia Dimoulaki, Fotis Grilias, Vagelis Papandreou, Giorgos Softas, Gregory Tsantilas, Maria Tsilogianni, Alexandros Vounatsos // Support: Valentini Kleideri, Iro Mazaraki, Fotis Rovolis, Chara Stergiou, Androniki Strogioglou, Ileanna Toli, Rania Totsika, Apostolos Zografos // Secretaries: Fenia Chatzopoulou, Ritsa Moraitou // Website: http://www.arch.uth.gr/incubator

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG)

Committed, Creative and Dialogical The structure and contents of the UACEG presentation focus on three interrelated topics: 1. Context: Bulgarian settlements of today resulting from centuries long development of cultural and spatial identity and the recent dynamics of societal change: The profound political changes, economic and social restructuring undergone during the recent two decades, the growing dynamics of the present world proaches, resulted in new spatial and architectural patterns in Bulgarian cities and gave birth to both challenges and opportunities. Current practice in urban planning and architectural design provides the visual expression of neoliberal approaches in a society of growing contrasts; new development and regeneration schemes change the morphology of the historic settlements with the promise for a better urban future.

2. A changing educational system: The efforts and results of integrating innovative approaches into the traditional higher education of Architecture and Urbanism: motivated new foci of creative interest. The Faculty curriculum has provided space for a new Programme in Urbanism and a variety of new optional modules for students in Architecture. Studio work is opening up to broader IT implementation in urban analysis and architectural design. Course projects and diploma works - following but also challenging fashions - address cultural heritage but also climate change, new building technologies and energy re-conceptualising shrinking public space.

3. Evolving dialogue with society: Students’ transformative capacity tested in the real world of today - practical urban and architectural design initiatives: A broader dialogue with society has been initiated by the Faculty through ad42 43

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dressing urgent practical issues in course and diploma works and PhD theses. through planning and design and are persistently communicating their ideas and results with potential end-users. The activities of the two newly founded organisations – the Association of Planning Students in Bulgaria (APSB) and the Association of Students in Architecture in Bulgaria (ASAB) illustrate the effective real-life impact of self-organising committed, creative and dialogi-

Presentation concept, general information about the UACEG and outline of teaching programmes: Elena Dimitrova, Boyan Georgiev // Poster contents: project authors // Poster contents in memoriam of Veronika Lazarova: Angel Burov // Graphic design: Irina Angelova // Multimedia presentation: Boyan Georgiev, Mila Yolova // Photos: UACEG, APSB and ASAB archives, website (www.lostbulgaria.com)

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture City: Belgrade Open Systems The segment of the exhibition, titled Open systems, will showcase the proture, University of Belgrade. Eight projects will be displayed to present ideas mester agenda was related to the formation of the new Cultural Centre within an existing housing block, the second was the transformation of the existing hotel Metropol into student housing. The challenge set was in the understanding the changes that contemporary institutions are faced with and developing research and design skills to surpass the application of traditional typologies in architecture. The Cultural Centre as an ever-changing institution and hotel Metropol as a dying institution that needs a crucial change, both possess potential for applying such approach. Cultural centre is perceived as a mediator between the public and the artists. The idea is to blur the boundary between the place of art production and the public in order to let interaction become a part of the architecture. Hotel Metropol was built in 1957 but has not been in use since 2004. We perceived it as a completely organized and rigid system with no potential of coexisting in developing urban context. Its balance is being disrupted by implementing a new program inside the object. The goal of the projects was to examine how architecture can absorb different social structures of its users in order to redevelop itself.

Studio: M5 Design Studio // Academic Supervisor: Djordje Stojanovic, assistant professor // -

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

Istanbul Kultur University City: Istanbul Dwelling in the City We live in Istanbul… But, how? At which space, at what time? Are the houses we dwell in suitable for us? Do we use the possibilities produced by the metropolitan area? To what extent architecture might intervene with the everyday life? What is the social role of an architect? What is the public face of dwelling? Might environmental sustainability be a reference for development of city life?

These questions and many more were discussed for producing new approaches to dwelling concept for improving everyday life in Istanbul. Fourth grade students studied in seven different groups leaded by four studio instructors and four research assistants. Various project sites were determined in Istanbul, and studio processes were executed separately by each group following differentiated teaching methods.

Discussions were based on several parameters: Distance, image, prestige, size, view, public space, social relations. The common topic was to design houses for a group of people ranging from 350 to 1000 according to the size of the project area and the priorities in each studio.

By participating in the Architectural Exhibition entitled “Architecture and the City in South East Europe”, the fourth grade studio instructors at Istanbul Kultur University Department of Architecture aim to demonstrate how students tackle the problem of the integrating buildings with the city and vice versa through the media of housing in social and physical terms.

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki City: Thessaloniki City Cracks!

The School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki took the opportunity, offered by the ‘Architecture and the City in SE Europe’ Exhibition, to discuss the role of architectural design in the city as a multi-faceted – physical, cultural, social and political - process.

The framework Contemporary urban realities are shaped in the context of globalised econ-

ways the multiple conditions of urban life.

within each city, new forms of labour emerge, unpredictable juxtapositions between people and cultures occur, new relations of power and inequality materialise. The nexus of processes that shape the framework of urban life often seems relentless and inevitable.

The workshop City cracks! is a 10-day student workshop seeking to explore the role of design in shaping the space of new urban experiences. The workshop investigates the role of architectural design in revealing fruitful ‘cracks’* in the seemingly inevitable urban condition: cracks that can allow nature to reassert its existence, terms of coexistence to be renegotiated, creativity to unfold, collectivity to be reinvented in the city of crisis.

Taking the urban experience -collective or individual- as a point of departure, this workshop does not only seek to design a new functionality, but explores the possibilities of a new urban condition.

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The workshop took place in one of the Museum’s showrooms, during the days the exhibition was being mount as well as while it was open to the pubdesigning, as a research process, was the exhibit.

Crack Capitalism, Pluto Press, London.

Academic Supervisors: Evangelia Athanassiou, Assistant Professor, Anastasios Tellios, Assistant Professor, Stavros Vergopoulos, Assistant Professor // Students: Paraskevi Annousi, Nickolaos Christodoulou, Nikoleta – Maria Christopoulou, Nafsika Efkleidou, Iokasti Foundouka, Kyriaki Goti, Aristeidis Katirtzidis, Maria Kollia, Georgios Kontominas, Artemis Kopsida, Elli Koutselos, Christina Mavropaidi, Peni Michailidou, Marios Papanikolaou, Efraim Papathomas, Stamatia Prigkou, Styliani Rossikopoulou – Pappa, Xanthi Sotiraki, Ioanna Tatli, Nefeli Vasilopoulou

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Nicosia, Architecture Department City: Nicosia Changing Positions The proposal deals with the different ways of approaching notions in archithe observer, through which the outcomes of the observations and the approach to the architectural conditions varies. The shifting form the macro to micro scale, the whole to the component, the corporeal and sensory qualities of the body to the urban conditions and vice versa and their resulting interThe proposal for the exhibition covers the diverse range of the approaches the Architecture Programme of the University of Nicosia: Reinterpreting-reconstructing the site (3rd semester studios) Inside-out /body-city/ hands on approach (4th semester studios) Materialization of Urban theories (5th semester studios- urban design studio) Let’s cook (6th semester studios) Multiplicities and diversities (7th-10th semester studios-Unit 1 Sustainable Unit, Unit 2-Living where Immaterial Matters, Unit 3-New in Old).

Person in charge of the participation of the University of Nicosia: Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Associate professor, Co-head of the Architecture Department of the University of Nicosia // Participator in the formulation of the concept: Eleonore Zippelius, assistant professor // Exhibited works: students’ projects during the studios run by full and part time faculty of the Architecture Department of the University of Nicosia

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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF THESSALONIKI 2012 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY IN SE EUROPE

University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Architecture City: Sarajevo Idea: As a common social space, a place of gathering, a city/ theatre/ square is goal is to restore the square as an inevitable space to give the citizens their socialization back. The main concept is: Citizens Speak- Architects React.

What do we mean by that?

In times like these, that dictate dynamic lives, people lack socialization and integration with their cities. Open public spaces, such as squares, were once built and meant to gather people and make them interact. Today, those places are more often loosing their purpose. We tend to give them back their purpose. At the same time, to give back the socialization to the people. Naturaly, those two are very important segments, both for the city to live to its fullest and for the citizens, to start interacting and feeling their city.

For the citizens to use their social spaces, they have the right to express their After all, who ownes and builts cities, if not their citizens. That leads us to out main concept ideas, which is: Citizens Speak- Architects React.

Why: To recover and return socialization into the city. Equivalent to that, to restore open spaces and give them back to the citizens = to give them back to the city.

Where: Theatre Square of the National Theatre, Sarajevo.

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SAR AJE VO

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School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens City: Athens Metropolitan Space in a Period of Crisis and the Architectural Challenges The relation between architecture and the city can only be placed in the center of architectural education. Under what conditions does architecture emerge The activity of an architectural school cannot but refer to the city, and cannot but be related to an actual city example. The primary, foremost and fascinating precedent for the School of Architecture of NTUA is Athens itself - the capital Greek city and its metropolitan territory. From this example, the discussion on architecture can be extended to the research of the metropolitan expansion as a global phenomenon, or as a phenomenon concerning regional areas. It imposes questions on the position and intervention of architecture within contemporary urban circumstances, and ultimately, on the ways in which architectural substance determines the genre and ethos of the space we live in.

The School of Architecture of NTUA attempts to challenge the Athenian metropolitan territory, and to comprehend, at the same time, the architectural and urban conditions indicated by other Greek cities. Finally it addresses a series of critical urban phenomena related to economic compression, to collateral collapse of social web as well as to environmental degradation.

It attempts to deal with a number of important problems, such as:

weaker and socially vulnerable population groups. expansion or the shrinkage of urban space. ence that can be achieved by correlating networks.

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landscape. politan territory and the reinforcement of its natural distinct assets.

Currators: Alexandrou Eleni, Lecturer / Grigoriadis Yannis, Assistant Professor / Kafritsa Maria, Associate Professor / Markou Maria, Lecturer / Moraitis Konstantinos, Associate Professor / Mountrihas Dimitris and Psyllidis Achilleas, PhD Candidates

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Istanbul Technical University City: Istanbul Projections for Istanbul As the metropolis becomes a less hierarchical and more dynamic whole and layers and layers of more distributed networks of loosely associated parts; conditions created by the dynamics of the metropolis require new ways to read and work on the city. The studio thus becomes a critical venue for the generation of urban architectural knowledge. Consequently, the studio transforms into a media where instrumental utopian and/or dystopian narratives are developed/proposed to propel projective thinking and to enable proactive design for the new dynamic and ever changing setting at hand.

The exhibited projects provide a sampling of the recent studio work that has been realized at the Department of Architecture of Istanbul Technical Universtudios to unfold a particular critical position to be explored relevant to urban problematic. Ranging in scope and scale, the exhibited work spans a broad and diverse settings, contents, scenarios and strategies relevant to architectural practices and urban context.

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Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Department of Architectural Engineering City: Xanthi Matter-Shape-City This installation is a combination of a number of student projects in the Arof the visual arts and building construction workshops, experimenting with light and trying to create space through it.

The video was based on the Black Theatre technique and is a mixture of technical means and a choreography. (At the same time, another construct was created, whose outline forms the basis for this projection.) The video is viewed through this screen trying to introduce a third dimension to the show itself.

Initially, the amorphous matter creates man and his surroundings. He then gradually molds his primal terrain in basic shapes and orders. They evolve into space and their repetition creates the urban environment where man inNow, in this context, digital information becomes the dominant element for furthering development. It structures access and distribution networks and occupies time rather than space. In this frame of reference we try to simulate Matter - Shape - City - Information.

Participants-Students: Dodou Theoni, Filippidou Kiveli, Kanakis Antonis, Kapraras Giorgos, Katsarelis Dimitris, Maniatis Stefanos, Maragkou Stefania, Mintsouli Alexia, Palla Stamatia, Papageorgiou Charilaos, Simitopoulou Vasiliki, Statiris Dimitris, Venierakis Manolis, Vista

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High School of Architecture and Civil Engineering “Lyuben Karavelov”

Architecture in the History and in the Daily Round The structure and contents of the UACEG presentation focus on three interThe main part of our exposition, named Architecture in the history and in the daily round will concern the projects of the students of the Architectural faculty. The chosen projects are from different departments – Department of Preservation of architectural heritage, Department of Urban planning, etc.

The projects are created in the two semesters in the school year 2010/2011.

Some of them like Rail based architecture and Silhouette in silhouette aren’t school projects, but made for a competition. In the school projects the students get a task with real parameters, situation and requirements.

Department: Preservation of architectural heritage For this project each student get a real object with which to deal, limited by the laws of conservation of architectural heritage and various parameters listed in project assignment. with the historical and architectural context of the area In the Department of Urban planning, we make projects in real cities and deciding the existing problems we have to create a plan for the future development. The towns, which are chosen – Samokov and Kuystendil – Bulgarian So that our purpose is to make the history to live with us in the daily round and the challenge here is how to create the thing living in such an environment.

Academic Supervisor: Associate professor, B. Borisov / Associate professor, V. Varbanova / Assistant architect, A. Nevrokopska // Students: Dilyana Gaydarova, Ivan Pashov, Maria Lambova, Radomira Koleva, Ivaylo Aleksandrov, Kamen Dimitrov, Tzvetelina Dimitrova, Vesta Kirova, Nikola Kolev, Violeta Popova, Elitsa Mateeva, Boris Zhivkov

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Interior and Environmental Design Department, Kadir Has University City: Istanbul In a time where architecture is temporary, how can interior design be timeless? In a time where the city is rapidly changing with mega projects that are more responsive to real-estate trends, how can interior design rise above the fashionable? In a time where general perception of the interior design as a discipline does not go far beyond the walls, how can interior designers bring urban experience come alive in and around the buildings?

As the Department of Interior and Environmental Design at Kadir Has University, we strongly advocate that interior design should be approached as a cross-section of all design disciplines dealing with multiple scales ranging from the scale of everyday objects to the city. At Kadir Has, we see the interior as a medium where one can extend design to unique spatial experience including that of the urban context. Hence, the interior design program at Kadir Has University is an architecturally oriented program with emphasis on spatial design rather than surface embellishment. with interior designer’s sensitivity to human scale, bringing urban experience into interiors through rigorous environmental analysis, and working in historical settings. Located by the Golden Horn at the heart the historic peninsula of Istanbul, we are inspired by our presence in a unique campus that was recognized by Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage Award. Faculty with diverse academic backgrounds combined with adjuncts who are practicing professionals enable us to collaboratively challenge and push limits of interior design and encourage a learning process based on the experience of space in various scales. Selected projects for this exhibition were taken from studios of all levels and from an international research based design summer school.

Curator: Orcun Kepez, PhD, EU Marie Curie IRG Fellow, Department Head

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Dear Friends, dear colleagues from all over South-eastern Europe, welcome to Thessaloniki, welcome to the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki 2012.

The School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Thessaloniki, Goethe Institutes across South East Europe and the ‘Five Museums Movement’ (Archaeological Museum, Museum of Byzantine Culture, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, and Telloglion Foundation of Art, AUTh) led by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, under the auspices of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, are honoured and overjoyed to be participating in the organization of the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki 2012, entitled ‘Architecture and the City in South East Europe’. izing and participating in this major academic and cultural event. The scholarly work invested therein has expanded architectural education above and beyond the limits of our School, contributing to our knowledge and ensuring both national and world-wide recognition.

Moreover, it is a great honour for us that the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki has been included and developed within the framework of “Thessaloniki 2012, Southeastern Europe, Cultural Crossroads”, a major initiative undertaken by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The main corpus of the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki consists of a large-scale Exhibition of Architecture (January-February 2012) in which each school will exhibit projects related to their contribution to the public and social spaces of their city. All the projects will be presented in the exhibition halls of the abovementioned museums.

Participants include twenty two Schools of Architecture from seventeen cities: Is-

The large-scale Exhibition of Architecture aims to initiate a discussion on the role of the schools of architecture in issues pertaining to architecture and urbanism. This is

explore the complicated problems faced by cities in terms of the production of structured, articulated, and multi-layered architectural proposals and interventions.

The short-term result is the implementation of the exhibition. But the discussion aims to also pursue this initial action through a broad network of collaborations and further actions. The ultimate goal of this joint effort between various Schools of Architecture throughout South-East Europe is the development of a wider network of collaborations that will propose new bilateral and multilateral co-operations, projects and exchanges in the immediate future.

Parallel to the large-scale Exhibition of Architecture, the 1st International Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki 2012 also includes: An architectural lecture by Elias Zenghelis entitled Urban Interventions: From Public to Common Space Young Archi-

tects from Germany, an urban action Urban games, an architectural presentation The Studio of architectural education, another architectural presentation entitled Public Space and City Rehabilitation Improvement Projects of Ljubljana and last but not least, a small colloquium entitled Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir.

Dear Friends, dear colleagues from all over South-Eastern Europe, Architecture today is faced with a series of important challenges and structural changes that are appearing at an increasing rate in economy, society, politics and the environment.

These changes bring new promises, wealth, economical development, environmental awareness, cultural expressions, intellectual interrelations, and social mobility. Yet, the same changes also entail contradictions, discontinuities, isolations, impoverishment, the intensive use of natural resources, and broad social inequalities.

The challenges are numerous and the debate surrounding them is growing. However, capabilities, the tools and, more generally, the role of architecture in this new situation.

The biggest question is whether architecture can viably contribute by introducing positive transformations in the metropolitan framework like: the improvement of public space and public services, the inclusion of social groups in the planning and use of public space, the support of multiple uses and the revision of established models of exclusive use of space, the reinforcement of networks and public means of transportation, the improvement of areas plagued by social isolation, the prevention of urban and commercial expansion in favour of natural formations, the preservation of social tolerance and difference together with the promotion of multiculturalism, the defence tive propositions for the representation and the conceptualisation of metropolitan life.

With the spread of globalisation and the development of networks, a series of concepts, tools and models are emerging that can be extremely useful for architecture.

Architecture, urban design and planning play a vital role in changing the city into a

Within this globalized world, traditional distinctions and polarities are under constant negotiation and transformation. Concepts, such as place, environment, context, identity, difference, acquire new meanings and associations for architecture. Universities tions.

Finally, I would like, to thank all of you, for your invaluable support.

Thessaloniki, 18 January 2012 George N. Papakostas Head of the School of Architecture Faculty of Engineering of AUTh

Opening Ceremony, Keynote Speaker: Elia Zenghelis, “Urban Interventions: From Public to Common Space�

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Open Discussion ‘Architecture and the city’ is an opportunity for schools of architecture to meet and discuss about common challenges in architectural education. Evidently, each school of architecture forges its own character, built around a different curriculum. In an increasingly globalized world, however, cultural contexts homogenize, social economic and institutional frameworks inevitably merge. Can differences be sustained?

Do they present an asset which increases competitiveness or do they pose the danger of marginalization?

The discussion was held during the opening day of the exhibition, on Wednesday 18/1/2012, and was structured around three general themes: Architectural Research In a context of increased complexity, architecture as a discipline expands, deepens, becomes more varied, and changes. What is the present content of research in architecture? How is research supported, organised, directed within architectural schools?

How does it inform, enrich, and intermingle with the architectural curriculum?

The city as a module of study in architectural education What is the scale of design? To what extend and in what ways is city planning and design included in the curriculum? Is it conceived as a mere background in which architectural act is located, or is it perceived as another step of the architectural creation for a meaningful living environment?

The school of architecture in the context of crisis The current crisis in Greece may be seen, in some ways, as a local particularity. Most erating within the dogma of a common paradigm. What are the new operating challenges faced by architectural schools in the face of economic crisis, of reduced state funding, and the pressing mandate of competitiveness? Does the crisis form a new condition for architectural education, inevitably bringing the inherent social character of architectural design, again, to the foreground?

ture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 9:30 - 9:40 Welcoming speech George Papakostas, Professor, Head of the School of Architecture, AUTh

Thematic axis: Architectural Research 9:40 -9:50 SEE Challenges to Context Sensitive Urban Research, Elena Dimitrova, Associate Professor, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy 9:50-10:00 Feathers and Down: Wrapping carefully words about the future, Iris Lykourioti, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece 10:00-10:10 Research in Architecture: Opportunities and Constraints, Zuhal Ulusoy, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kadir Has University, Istanbul 10:10 – 10:20 Chrys{al}is -Paradigm Change in Architectural Research + Education”, Alessio Erioli, Associate Professor, University of Bologna 10:20 – 10:30 (Re)searching Architecture Constantinos Spyridonidis, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, AUTh. Thematic axis: The city as a module of study in architectural education

10:40 - 10:50 The role of architecture in the contemporary urban and landscape 10:50 - 11:00 About a “Dictionary of Project-Oriented Urbanities”, Socrates Stratis, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus 11:00 - 11:10 Academia and Practice in UD – Relevance of education to Localities, derick University, Nicosia Thematic axis: The school of architecture in the context of crisis 11:10 - 11:20 The optimistic Crisis, Stefan Simion, Assistant Professor, The University of Architecture and Urbanism ‘Ion Mincu’, Bucharest 11:20 - 11:30 The city in crisis as an educational tool, Yannis Aesopos, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Patras 11:30 - 11:40 Changing Positions, Giorgos Chatzichristou, Associate Professor, Cohead of the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia 11:40 - 11:50 Metropolitan space in a period of crisis and the architectural challenges, Constantinos Moraitis, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens

“International Relations. Young Architects from Germany” An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations e. V. (ifa), Stuttgart in cooperation with the Federal Chamber of German Architects e. V. (BAK), Berlin Media partner: Deutsche Welle DW-TV

The exhibition presents fourteen projects by young architects from Germany that have been completed abroad mainly since 2004.

The selected examples from construction, interior design, urban design and landscape architecture illustrate the broad range of skills of an explicitly young generation of architects. They show how young architects approach working in new and foreign enones under unusual conditions. These architects come up with sensitive solutions for challenges in architecture today, always with an eye on the future, sustainability, and new technologies.

Contrary to today’s global media interest in the spectacular and the star, this exhibimatic approach, concentrating entirely on the locations for which they were created.

“International Relations. Young Architects from Germany”, Exhibition Poster

“International Relations. Young Architects from Germany�, Opening Ceremony

“International Relations. Young Architects from Germany�, Selection of the works presented in the Exhibition

Urban Games The E.U. 05+ Game (Encouraging Urbanity Game/ 5th Generation) - Get playfully urban engaged in Thessaloniki centre

The E.U. 05+ Game is one of the Urban Games designed by the students of the 3rd urban design studio of the Department of Architecture of the University of Cyprus.

The games aim to encourage urbanity through urban design practice. They become tools for the active participation of citizens in shaping public consciousness. tion was attempted during the opening of the exhibition, while in the course of the exhibition the games were also tailored to the age characteristics of primary school children. This action was implemented in two phases, at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Arts and also in areas throughout the city of Thessaloniki. The combination of the urban experience and its transfer inside the museum’s spaces acknowledged the role of the museum as a space with connection to our everyday lives.

Academic Supervisors: Socrates Stratis, Nadia Charalambous 1st implementation of the EU 05 + GAME Savvas Anastasiou, Despo Anayiotou, Maria Christophi, Christiana Christou, Elena Constanti, Richard Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus / Anastasaki Stella, Archaeologist-Art Historian, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Mavini Christina, Archaeologist-Museologist, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Michelaki Despoina, Environmental Education, Directorate of Secondary Education of East Thessaloniki / Participating Schools: 15th High School of Thessaloniki, 2nd High School of Thessaloniki, 1st High School of Eleftherio Kordelio, 2nd High School of Neapoli, Peiramatiko High School of Macedonia University, Musical School of Thessaloniki 2nd implementation of the EU 05 + GAME Polyzouli, Educator-Museologist, MED, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art / Participating Schools: 1st primary school, Agios Pavlos, 6th grade / Teachers: Mavromati Inanthi, Yiannis Kap-

The E.U. 05+ Game tools

Primary School pupils getting playfully urban engaged

2nd implementation of the EU 05 + GAME

1st implementation of the EU 05 + GAME

19/01/12, 14:00, AMTH Presentation of Ferhan Yurekli - Irem Mollaahmetoglu Falay Studio work

Installation by Ferhan Yurekli, Irem Mollaahmetoglu Falay, Assistant: Zeynep Aydemir

Workshop Presentation, School of Architecture, AUTh The workshop took place inside the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art from January 11 to January 19

Flows of capital and information span the globe, operate in real time and are almost cal contexts to shape, in concrete and heterogeneous ways, the multiple conditions of contemporary urban life. Attraction of the roaming global capital and the production of economic value is the driving force of urban transformations, and the rationale of most ‘urban regeneration’ projects. mental conditions is materialised within each city, new forms of labour emerge, unpredictable juxtapositions between people and cultures occur, new relations of power and inequality consolidate. The nexus of processes that shape the framework of urban life often seems relentless and inevitable.

Within this variegated and yet relentless framework city people, as individuals, as communities, often as networks invent different ways of survival, practice new forms of representation and communication, explore new acts of exerting ‘the right to the city’. Such fragmented acts, are often non-commercialised, non-consumerist, unmediated, spontaneous, creative. They suggest different ways of producing urban space, of inhabiting the city’s streets and squares, of using the city’s resources. These are not just resistances.

They actually exercise, as John Holloway* puts it, a different kind of ‘doing’ and, hence, they form ‘cracks’ in the pervasive capitalist social synthesis. moment in which we assert a different type of doing’.

The workshop discusses different collective or individual activities, interventions, behaviours that can be recognized as city cracks and investigates the role of architectural and urban design in revealing and enhancing such fruitful ‘cracks’ in the seemingly inevitable urban condition.

The workshop The workshop progresses as a series of design actions distinguished to each other in order to highlight a developing approach to an urban condition. Ranging from the personal to the mutual, from the discrete to the common, the whole process acknowledges designing as an emerging necessity to respond to concerns that are hinted but not yet

construction but it is an active social agent that supports human behaviour. * The use of the term ‘cracks’ is inspired by John Holloway (2010) Crack Capitalism, Pluto Press, London.

Accordingly, the days of the workshop were roughly allocated seven distinct stages of interaction.

Day One: Find An Activity The students were asked to look for an urban activity through their direct contact to actual settings and people. This is a crucial step in which designers approach irregular and unstable situations with an open mind and sensitivity to recognize an unconventional but constructive attitude.

The positive aspects of the selected attitude are more clearly described. Mutual behaviour plays an important role in identifying social contribution. In contrast to established is approached as a common intention to act upon a given situation. It is a dynamic is composed when a multitude of individualities are recognized to form a collectivity.

Day Three: Locate The Crack In The City The ‘crack’ is placed in context. The particular urban conditions that trigger its emergence are explored and located. Comparable activities or conditions are searched within the city. Similar settings do not always arouse the same reaction. It is the particular relation between an urban setting and a common behaviour that evokes a ‘crack’.

Day Four: Explore Its Habitat The architectural qualities of the ‘crack’ are approached. Temporal arrangements or more stable settlements are examined and recorded. In most of the cases these are minimal yet they do not simply support a functionality or refer to usability. They may equally have symbolic connotations in reference to the common characteristics of the community.

Day Five: Amplify The Potential This is an attempt to increase the potential of the ‘crack’ by improving the structural, organisational and operational features of its setting through the application of knowledge and information. Can a ‘crack’ change the city? Processes that could enhance the transformative effects of an unprompted action are considered.

Day Six: Design A new physical articulation is proposed to support the activity. One of the most challenging steps in the whole process. Regulative principles and normative formulations may tive practitioners constantly evaluating their decisions, working in a bottom-up fashion.

Day Seven: Present and open-ended nature of the whole undertaking.

Evangelia Athanassiou, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Tassos Tellios, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of ThesThessaloniki

Four city cracks Embroidered Wall Space in the city is in a condition of constant change, mainly due to ongoing forces static interactions of people, namely immigrants, and the way they recreate the meaning and shape of the urban setting that they inhabit. Certain parts of their social life are transferred outside the domestic facilities. The group’s project tries to expand the possibilities for a social ‘sculpture’ in progress, next to the ancient city walls, providing open air space for small group habits such as playing chess, making handmade that allows for human communication, physical interaction and social participation, beyond formal and social stereotypes.

Embroidered wall was created by: Kyriaki Goti, Aristeidis Katirtzidis, Efraim Papathomas, Stamatia Prigkou, Styliani Rossikopoulou-Pappa.

Embroidered wall

Urban Infoscopes Networking in the city is the main idea throughout this project and the ways that urban space can act as a canvas, transmitting and receiving messages. People interfere in the city in a dynamic way, arbitrarily and spontaneously posting messages to an often unknown audience. The concept of these messages as material traces of a hypertextual physical system that accommodates the message exchanging network. A set of urban equipment is created, which is openly accessible and can post and receive messages,

interacting with citizens and activating urban space.

Urban Infoscopes were created by: Nikoleta – Maria Christopoulou, Maria Kollia, Artemis Kopsida,

Urban Infoscopes

Urban SKavenGers Transformations occurring in contemporary cities have revealed unexpected and spon-

Urban SKavenGers

cally implementing recycling in the city. This time, though, recycling is not associated with domestic waste, but it includes an array of useful items of everyday urban life. equipment as well as the urban infrastructure that might support this activity.

Urban SKavenGers were created by: Elli Koutselos, Peni Michailidou, Marios Papanikolaou, Nefeli

Urban Para_sites Urban farming is addressed in this project as a potential way to confront the multifaceted crisis in cities. It suggests the closing of the gap in the production chain from the farmer to the consumer, through the exclusion of the intermediate phases of a conventional production line. This allows for the establishment of sustainable logistics in of hosting small, family sized farming initiatives. Taking advantage of rain water and the possibilities of vertical and upside planting, it suggests a smooth, short path from cultivation to consumption.

Urban Para_sites were created by: Paraskevi Annousi, Nickolaos Christodoulou, Nafsika Efkleidou, Iokasti Foundouka, Georgios Kontominas, Ioanna Tatli.

Urban Para_sites

Waiting Room Incubator / Performance, University of Thessaly, Department of Architecture

The waiting room is an intermediate space where someone coming from somewhere, is waiting to go somewhere else. It is a space increasingly linked to our daily life, the identity of which hasn’t been studied thoroughly.

In a state of awaiting all actions stop. The awaiting subjects are always depended on another person or event. While waiting their behaviour becomes similar. People, who

expands in a monotonous way.

We will try to describe the waiting room, by performing a state of awaiting: an almost arithmetic sequence of people, their appearance in space being prioritised in order.

We believe that the importance lies in the lack of action, the repetition of movements and the emotional uncertainty deriving from this condition.

Concept: Elina Loukou // Curators and tutors: Ani Krikorian, Elina Loukou, Alkyoni Bouchalaki // http://www.arch.uth.gr/en/activities/220

Lecture

The presentation focuses on improvements in the public space that were introduced over the last ten years in the city of Ljubljana. transport, as well as experiences related to cultural heritage preservation, renewal and revitalisation while tackling the main problems involved in the maintenance of cultural heritage. It also highlights the decline of retail business in the city centre due to the spread of large commercial/retail centres on the outskirts of the town and presents the attempts that have been made in order to attract people to the old part of the city through street performances, concerts, street exhibitions.

Major architectural projects such as the new Football Stadium and Multipurpose cluded.

Finally the presentation focuses on the Faculty of Architecture of Ljubljana University and the South Africa Ithuba Skills College, an interesting international social project in which the School is involved.

16/02/12, 17:00, Teloglion Foundation of Art, AUTh “Thessaloniki-Istanbul-Bursa-Izmir” Panel

The panel is organised by the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the International Hellenic University, and the Association of Friends of the Teloglion Foundation of Art. The event is part of the programme of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Architecture “Architecture and the city in SE Europe”, which presents the work of 26 architectural schools from countries of South-East Europe.

The aim of this event is to enhance the relationship between architectural education tive thought in the educational programmes of architectural schools, and to present the way that urban issues are included in the projects and proposals which are elaborated in courses and studio-based work in architectural schools.

The panel included the following professors and topics:

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki East Mediterranean port-cities and the transformations of their waterfronts Fatma Erkök, Associate professor of the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University Pelin Dursun, Associate professor of the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University Birgül Çolakoglu, Associate professor of the Faculty of Architecture, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul Selay Yurtkuran, Lecturer of the Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Uludag University, Bursa Zeynep Akture, Associate professor of the School of Architecture, University of Technology, Izmir Architectural education and the city Stavroula Lavva, Adjunct faculty member of the School of Humanities, International Hellenic University Polis and Architecture in the Black Sea Zuhal Ulusoy, Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kadir Has University, Istanbul The project for the enhancement of Izmir’s seafront The discussion was headed by Prof. Zuhal Ulusoy.

PROGRAM >> Venues School Presentations // Parallel Events WEDNESDAY 18/01/12 >> Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Welcome Speech Open Discussion Faculty of Architecture, University SS. Cyril and Methodius / Skopje The University of Architecture and Urbanism ‘Ion Mincu’ / Bucharest Frederick University, School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts / Nicosia Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana / Tirana Department Of Architecture, Technical University of Crete / Chania >> Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Opening Ceremony Keynote Speaker: Elia Zenghelis, “Urban Interventions: From Public to Common Space” // Opening Ceremony “Young Architects from Germany” Exhibition produced by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), the Congress of the International Union of Architects and the Federal Chamber of German Architects.

THURSDAY 19/01/12 >> Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Iuav University of Venice / Venice School of Architecture, Polytechnic of Bari / Bari University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture (a) / Belgrade Department of Architecture, University of Patras / Patra Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus / Nicosia // Urban Games The E.U. 05+ Game (Encouraging Urbanity Game/ 5th Generation) - Get playfully urban engaged in Thessaloniki centre >> Museum of Byzantine Culture University of Bologna / Bologna

>> Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki // Presentation of Ferhan Yurekli-Irem Mollaahmetoglu Falay Studio work >> Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art University Of Thessaly, School Of Engineering, Department Of Architecture / Volos University of Architecture, Civil Engineering University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture Belgrade (b) / Belgrade Istanbul Kultur University / Istanbul School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Thessaloniki // “City Cracks!” Workshop presentation The workshop will be taking place inside the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art from January 11 to January 19.

FRIDAY 20/01/12 >> Teloglion Foundation of Art A.U.Th University Of Nicosia - Architecture Department / Nicosia University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Architecture / Sarajevo School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens / Athens Istanbul Technical University / Istanbul Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Architectural Engineering / Xanthi >> Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art High School Of Architecture and Civil Engi// Karel Pollak, City of Ljubljana: “Public space and city rehabilitation improvement projects for the medieval core of Ljubljana” >> State Museum of Contemporary Art Kadir Has University / Istanbul Opening Ceremony “Composition-ConstructionProduction. Russian Avant Garde and Contemporary Art” Exhibition produced by the State Museum of Contemporary Art.