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Curated by Christoph a. Kumpusch Prologue Lebbeus Woods
Theoharis David Built Ideas
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TheoHARIS david
Curated by Christoph a. Kumpusch Prologue Lebbeus Woods
Teaching and Action A Life of Learning,
Theoharis David Built Ideas
This is a publication of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture The School of Architecture at Pratt Institute seeks to create a culture of research and innovation in both the faculty and student body. The School of Architecture recognizes that in the design world of the 21st century, important research is being conducted around the world by innovative professionals and educators and traditional academic categories of research are giving way to “research-driven practice”, particularly in the areas of sustainability, digital design, material research, sustainability and community planning. Theoharis David, FAIA, is a Professor of Architecture at Pratt, a visiting professor University of Cyprus and design principal of his firm, with offices in New York City and Nicosia, Cyprus. © Theoharis David, FAIA, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by or any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
The exhibition, which will travel to Cyprus, Greece and elsewhere and is accompanied by a catalogue, is designed and curated by Christoph a. Kumpusch, architect and professor at Pratt Institute. This exhibit is made possible by funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, with additional support from the Pratt Institute School of Architecture Dean Thomas Hanrahan, University of Cyprus and the Cyprus-US Chamber of Commerce. Built Ideas: A Life of Teaching Learning and Action The work of Theoharis David, FAIA Curated by Christoph a. Kumpusch Prologue by Lebbeus Woods Presented by Pratt Institute School of Architecture Dean Thomas Hanrahan
The public lecture “Talking About YOU” on March 1, 2012 will be introduced by the visionary Lebbeus Woods, architect and theorist working and living in New York, and will precede the opening reception that reflects on Theo David’s 43 years as a teacher through the work of his former students, many of them having gone on to become accomplished architects and teachers. ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David
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Contents
Opening With contributions by:
Lebbeus Woods, Prologue Christoph a. Kumpusch, Curatorial Statement Dean Thomas Hanrahan, Statement Acknowledgements Theoharis David, Introduction
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Ayia Trias Church Bethelite Institutional Baptist Church New Life Baptist Church Ayios Athanasios Elementary School Stylianos Lenas Elementary and Nursery School Laiki Residential Training Center GSP Stadium and Athletic Center Spyros Kyprianou Palais des Sport Allegra GSP Sports Center Kaimakli Community Sports Center Thalia David Residence Gladstonos 22 Bleu Residential Development Private Residence Stavrinides Residence Phileleftheros Head Offices Cavo Greco Environmental Center St. Nicholas Church Old GSP Competition URBAN P.A.C.T. Student Projects Closing Credits Biographies Timeline
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Science and Architecure was a risky direction to take and not only because other faculty were vocally skeptical of how it would lead to buildable architecture, and how it would be taught by two non-building faculty, but also how, or if at all, it would be accepted by our students, many of whom had traveled far and were paying dearly for this conclusion to their professional education. Nevertheless, it was a risk that Theo took, because he believed in its premises and potentials. It was.
then that I realized what kind of man Theo is, and came to value his integrity as a friend and educator. It was only more recently - I am chagrined to say - that I discovered his architecture. The fault is mine, but was abetted by his innate modesty and the fact that many of his projects are in Cyprus. My fear that many others might share my ignorance is relieved by this exhibition and catalogue. In them, we find projects of a high order of thought and design, informed by a brave and compassionate spirit. Working with the known building types, he has transformed their conventions into inventions animated by new readings of their traditional meanings and purposes. The boldly abstract volumes of the Ayia Trias Church; the contrasts between delicacy and mass in the Bleu Residences; the soaring, sheltering lightness of the GSP Stadium and Athletic Center; the open courtyards of the Stylianos Lenas School, playfully painted with light and shadow - all are unique interpretations of ideas vital to contemporary living that seem at the same time both familiar and, in these works of architecture, wholly original. It is their unforced, unpretentious character that gives them strength and poetry, a naturalness that imparts to us a sense of well – being and enablement. As it is with the man, so it is with his works. Theo David is deeply committed to his students and his colleagues and to the architecture that embodies ideas celebrating their community, indeed, community itself. In my view and from my experience, he is an architect setting for all of us an example for a better, more affirmative future. Lebbeus Woods March, 2012 New york city
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prologue
It was in the winter of 1988. Theoharis David, then the chairman of Pratt Institute’s Graduate Design Program, had hired Michael Webb, of Archigram fame, and me, as adjunct professors in the design studio, where he was also teaching. At the outset of our one-year tenure, the three of us had sat down and discussed the overall direction we wanted to take. Michael and I - architects who had no realized buildings to our credit - suggested that it would be great if we could focus on “science and architecture.” Theo, a gentleman through and through, asked if we meant exploring the relationships between technology and architecture, a topic worn thin over the decades but still, he supposed, always worth another look. No, we answered, it was pure science we thought would open up fresh perspectives and possibilities, its concepts and methodologies. Relativity, thermodynamics, evolution, cybernetics. Theo’s eyes brightened and he smiled in his nuanced way. A great idea, indeed, he said—let’s do it. And so began one of the most memorable teaching years in my experience and, I believe, that of many of our students.
Curatorial Statement
Theoharis David Built Ideas
Like a computer, the human brain processes many thousands of bits of information. Looking at a search engine, raw data can be searched for and a number, typically several thousands, of answers are provided. There is almost an infinite number of possibilities and results and further searching. Eliminating many answers allows us to sharpen the question and specify the searched-for result down to what we are really after. The approach taken by this exhibition is not to look at possibilities in a free fall—not answers, but limitations, boundaries and restrictions. They were space, typology, phenomenology, inhabitability and the desire of being built. Desire – yes – but never unconditional. In terms of process, the idea was sometimes first, and sometimes the building, but it is always its Architecture that tied it together. To be more precise, answers were provided through Theo’s buildings, but he wanted them to provoke questions instead. No project can be viewed in its entirety at once. The columns, depending on the viewer’s viewpoint, show two sides – the rest is in question – prompting a series of questions. Projects overlap, block each other, speak to each other. Questions fuel the exhibited buildings, most of them, indeed, built. The question is never how they were done or with which software, but with what desire. Digital or analog? Nonsense! Can you walk me through? Architecture, as Theo explained, is a life; it’s not a career, it’s not only a building, not only an idea, not only an image. But then I asked, “What is it?” “It’s life”, he replied. christoph a. kumpusch
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In many respects the balancing of dualities defines the trajectory of Theo David’s entire career. Born to Cypriot parents, educated in the United States at Pratt Institute and Yale University, he established early an international practice in New York and Cyprus before globalism became a commonplace term. His practice in New York included public buildings and housing, while the range of his commissions in Cyprus eventually grew to include the national stadium outside of Nicosia, the capital city. The New York / Cyprus practice has been symbiotic on a number of levels. New York, as the restless symbol of modernity and social transformation has provided the conceptual framework for an experimental practice of constant change and renewal. Cyprus, where the culture of modernity is understood in the Mediterranean terms of space activated by natural light, robust form and structural clarity, has served as David’s arena for an architecture that embeds itself deeply into the social and natural landscapes of city and region. Active building and rigorous conceptual thinking on two continents over a long career has resulted in a new kind of global practice, where experimental ideas are realized in the poetics of space, form and construction.
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Theo David has also maintained a dual and ambitious career in practice and in academia. He has been a professor of architecture at Pratt Institute teaching generations of graduate and undergraduate students. He served as chair of graduate architecture from 1979 to 1989, establishing its identity as a progressive program dedicated to ideas and bringing together noted architects such as Lebbeus Woods and Michael Webb. Teaching and practice have constantly renewed each other over the years, as the theoretical concerns of the design studio have always been examined through the lens of making, while practice has offered the opportunity to turn theoretical concerns into completed buildings. For Theo David ideas and buildings are never far apart in either practice or the academy, and this ability to bring these two worlds together has defined his unique contribution to the discipline of architecture. Thinking, making, challenging and serving constitute the framework for this exhibition and catalogue of the extraordinary work of Theo David. DEAN Thomas Hanrahan
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The buildings and projects of Theo David are acts of great ambition. The title of the collection and exhibition of these works – “Built Ideas” – proclaims Theo David’s ambition for architecture to aspire to a more complex order, imbued with the transformational power of ideas. This title also suggests something complementary; that an idea becomes even more powerful if it is realized in the form of a building. This dual desire, where building aspires to the power the idea while the idea aspires to be made real in the world, constitutes Theo David’s unique contribution to the discipline of architecture.
Acknowledgement
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The idea driving this exhibit and its catalog was developed by the energetic and imaginative curator, architect Christoph a. Kumpusch, who guided its design and visual concept working closely with the excellent graphic designer Won Sok Choi. Also, the extraordinary contribution of a great visionary architect, Lebbeus Woods, through his written thoughts and critical advice, cannot be overstated. My thanks to those faculty and staff of the School of Architecture of Pratt including Mark Parsons, Eric Wong, and Rodrigo Guajardo, whose cooperation and technical assistance made possible the construction of the exhibit and to Kurt Everhart for the calmness of his administrative coordination. I also think it important for all to see in print the names of those young Pratt student volunteers who worked countless hours sacrificing time from their own work, building or repairing models, assisting in digital production and constructing the exhibit itself. They are Schuyler Klein, coordinator, Ali Fouladi, Shaked Uzrad, Mike Tingen, Kelly Smolenski, Azeem Khan, Jonathan Jarquin, Richard Miller, Juan Sala, Beijia Gu, Brian Dobrolsky, Jasper Hayes, Chris Fantin, Iting Tsai, Keumbi Noh, Brendan O’Shea, Daniela Kolodesh, Neda Kakhsaz, Ryan Joseph Simons, editor, Indiana Morales, digital coordination, Adam Orlinski, Taylor Sams, Martin Velez, Wan Ling Li, Anna Maria Perez, Joel Kokin, Hudson Sackrider-De Ricco, Chizoma Amadi, Damien Daigle, Alyza Enriquez, Ryan Esparza, Gabriela Fiorentino Cedeno, Yani Gao, Xiaoke He, Yuli Huang, Rebecca Pierson, Neha Sadruddin, Chi Ieong Wong and Philip Zucker.
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I must also acknowledge the support of the partners and staff of my practice and in particular the contributions of Emre Bozatli, Yiannis Kythreotis and Melissa David who searched for, compiled and edited numerous texts and hundreds of images. My thanks to Mr. Pavlos Paraskevas Director of Cultural Services, Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus for his support in securing major funding for this effort and my wonderful artist friend Nicos Kouroussis for his guidance from the very beginning. The quiet support of my musician son Alexi must also be noted. And finally I am grateful to Marios Phocas, chair the Department of Architecture of the University of Cyprus and our outstanding Dean, Thomas Hanrahan, of the School of Architecture of Pratt— my “home”—for their generous support and to the many highly talented young men and women I have been given the privilege to call my students and from whom I have learned and continue to learn. theoharis david
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Art Precedent Ground Symbolism The visitor is challenged to evaluate how well the architect has succeeded in reflecting one or more of the chosen themes in the architecture. One is also asked, looking at the student work represented in the exhibit, to wonder about the transfer of knowledge that took place between student and teacher. The message this exhibit is meant to send is that it is possible to realize one’s ideas regardless of fame or with limited resources and budgets at your disposal; in other words, a message of optimism at a difficult time for our profession. theoharis david
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Teaching and Action A Life of Learning,
introduction
The work presented in this exhibit, consisting of primarily realized designs, posits the position that architecture is conceived by ideas that are developed through theoretical investigations, inquisitiveness and freedom of thought, and that an act of architecture achieves its full potential once built. The exhibit itself attempts to demonstrate how and to what degree the design process leading to built and proposed works was informed by the reality of the four subjectively chosen and often interwoven themes:
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Ground, ground, n. Pronunciation /graʊnd/ Forms: OE–ME (15– Sc.) grund, ME–15 grond, (ME gronnde), ME–16 grounde, ME grownd(e, (ME grount, growende, 15 growinde, groune, 16 grown), ME– ground.(Show Less) Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English grund strong masculine = Old Frisian, Old Saxon grund (Middle Dutch gront , inflected grond- , Dutchgrond ), Old High German grunt , krunt (Middle High German grunt , grund- , German gruna ), Gothic *grundus (compare grundu-waddjus groundwall, foundation, afgrundiþa abyss) < Old Germanic *grunduz < pre-Germanic *ghrn̥tú-s ; no cognates outside Germanic are known. The formal equivalent is not found in Old Norse, which has however grund (feminine) (declined like the -istems), earth, plain, and a cognate type (Germanic *grunþo- < pre-Germanic ghrn̥to- ) in grunn-r , gruð-r (masculine), bottom, grunn-r adj., shallow, grunn neuter, shoal (Danish grund bottom, shallow, Swedish grundbottom, foundation, ground).
n. The particular space or area under consideration, or one used for some special purpose, esp. the scene of any contest, or meeting. off the ground: out of the way. on the ground: engaged in a duel. o. The soil of the earth. Also without article: Soil, earth, mould; now only in Mining (see quot. 1881) except with descriptive adj. Phr. to break ground
a. The bottom; the lowest part or downward limit of anything. b. Of the sea, a well, ditch, etc., and of hell; rarely of heaven. c. The solid bottom or earth underlying the sea (†or other water). Now only Naut., esp. in reference to soundings, or in phrase to break ground : to heave the anchor clear of the bottom. d. Base, foundation. e. The solid base or foundation on which an edifice or other structure is raised. In early use pl. in the same f. sense (cf. foundations). f. That on which a system, work, institution, art, or condition of things, is founded; the basis, foundation. Now somewhat rare. g. Any material surface, natural or prepared, which is taken as a basis for working upon: esp. in painting or decorative art, a main surface or first coating of colour, serving as a support for other colours or a background for designs; the prevailing or principal colour of any object, picture, etc.; that portion of a surface which is not coloured, decorated, or operated upon. h. The surface of the earth, or a part of it i. The earth regarded as the surface upon which man and his surroundings naturally rest or move; freq. in prepositional phrases, as along, on, to the ground (†formerly also without the article), above orunder ground . j. The portion of the earth's surface on which a person or thing stands or moves; often fig. in phr. to cut the ground from under one or one's feet . k. The earth as contrasted with heaven. Chiefly in phr. on (the) ground . l. Area or distance on the face of the earth. m. The space upon which a person, etc., takes his stand; the position maintained or defended by one; esp.in phrases to hold one's ground , to keep one's ground , to maintain one's ground , to stand one's ground , to shift one's ground ; now usually fig.
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τοπίο το, [topío] O39
τέχνη, η [téxni] O30
1. γεωγραφική ενότητα με κοινά φυσικά χαρακτηριστικά: Eλληνικό / ορεινό / αλπικό / μεσογειακό ~. Aρχιτεκτονική προσαρμοσμένη στο νησιώτικο ~. Tα εργοστάσια κατέστρεψαν το αττικό ~. Σεληνιακό* ~ και ως ΦP. || γραφική τοποθεσία: Eιδυλλιακό / ωραίο ~. 2. ζωγραφικός πίνακας που παριστάνει τοπίο• τοπιογραφία. [λόγ.: 1: μσν. τοπίον < ελνστ. τόπ(ιον) -ίον• 2: σημδ. γαλλ. paysage ή μέσω του ιταλ. paesaggio]
ανθρώπινη δραστηριότητα που στηρίζεται σε ορισμένες γνώσεις και εμπειρίες και που έχει ως σκοπό τη δημιουργία ενός πνευματικού ή τεχνικού έργου. 1α. δημιουργία έργων που εκφράζουν το αισθητικά καλό και προκαλούν στο θεατή, στον ακροατή ή στον αναγνώστη αισθητική απόλαυση: H ~ για την ~, δόγμα σύμφωνα με το οποίο η τέχνη δεν πρέπει να έχει διδακτικό χαρακτήρα, αλλά ο μοναδικός της σκοπός πρέπει να είναι η αισθητική συγκίνηση. Oι αρχαίες τραγωδίες είναι έργα μεγάλης / απαράμιλλης τέχνης. || (ειδικότ. για έργα αρχιτεκτονικής, ζωγραφικής και πλαστικής): Aντικείμενο / έργο τέχνης. Iστορία της τέχνης. Kριτικός έργων τέχνης. Eκδόσεις τέχνης, βιβλία με φωτογραφίες έργων τέχνης. || H έβδομη* ~. β. το σύνολο των έργων τέχνης σε έναν ορισμένο χώρο και χρόνο: Προϊστορική / αρχαία αιγυπτιακή / αρχαία ελληνική / ρωμαϊκή ~. ~ της Aναγέννησης. Kλασική / σύγχρονη / μοντέρνα / πρωτοποριακή / λαϊκή ~. γ. (πληθ.) Kαλές τέχνες, γενική ονομασία της ζωγραφικής, της γλυπτικής, της χαρακτικής ή και της αρχιτεκτονικής.
προηγούμενος, -η -ο [proiγúmenos] E5 λόγ. θηλ. και προηγουμένη 1. που προηγήθηκε χρονικά, που έχει υπάρξει ή έχει συμβεί πριν από κπ. ή από κτ. άλλο. ANT επόμενος: O ~ ομιλητής / ιδιοκτήτης / ενοικιαστής. H προηγούμενη περίοδος / κυβέρνηση. O ~ κύριος ξέχασε το καπέλο του. || (ειδικότ.) για τις υποδιαιρέσεις του χρόνου: Tην προηγούμενη εβδομά δα / μέρα. Tο προηγούμενο Σάββατο / καλοκαίρι. συμβολισμός, ο [simvolizmós] O17 1α.παράσταση ή έκφραση αφηρημένων εννοιών με σύμβολα: Γλωσσικός / επιστημονικός / θρησκευτικός / χριστιανικός ~. O ~ των αριθμών. β. σύμβολο2: Συμβολισμοί της φυσικής / της χημείας. 2. λογοτεχνική κίνηση, που εκδηλώθηκε στη Γαλλία κατά τα τέλη του 19ου αι. ως αντίδραση στο ρομαντισμό και στο νατουραλισμό, και που χρησιμοποίησε παραστάσεις από τον κόσμο των αισθήσεων ως σύμβολα των ιδεών και των συναισθημάτων: O Mαλαρμέ είναι εκπρόσωπος του ποιητικού συμβολισμού. || ανάλογη τεχνοτροπία στη ζωγραφική και στη μουσική. [λόγ. < γαλλ. symbolisme < symbol(e) = σύμβολ(ον)1 -isme = -ισμός]
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symbolism, n. Pronunciation /ˈsɪmbəlɪz(ə)m/
art, n.1 Pronunciation Brit. /ɑːt/ , U.S. /ɑrt/
Etymology: < SYMBOL n.1 + -ISM suffix, partly after French symbolisme , German (modern Latin) symbolismus .
Forms: ME aart, ME ars, ME ars (plural), ME arse (plural), ME hart, ME harte, ME hert, ME–16 arte, ME– art, 19– awrt (Irish English); Sc. pre-17arit, pre-17 arte, pre-17 hart, pre-17 17– art, pre-17 18– airt, 17 airth. N.E.D. (1885 ) also records a form ME arz. (Show Less)
a. The practice of representing things by symbols, or of giving a symbolic character to objects or acts; the systematic use of symbols; hence, symbols collectively or generally. b. A symbolic meaning attributed to natural objects or facts. c. The use of symbols in literature or art; spec. the principles or practice of the Symbolists d. The use, or a set or system, of written symbols.
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Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French art (French art ) means, method, or knowledge employed to gain a certain result, technique (c1000), manner of acting or behaving (c1100), skill (12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), craftsmanship (12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), magic art, magic, sorcery (12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), ruse, artifice (12th cent.), trade, craft, profession (c1200), habit (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), knowledge, science, learning (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), deceit, guile (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), talent, ability (for gaining a particular result) (14th cent.), practice (a1383 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), academic discipline (early 15th cent.), treatise which sets out the principles of a discipline (15th cent.), artistry or technique, as opposed to science (15th cent.), that which is the product of human activity, as opposed to nature (1580), (in plural) the liberal arts (late 14th cent. or earlier; 12th cent. in les set arz the seven arts), the liberal and mechanical arts (a1628), the humanities and philosophy (1636) < classical Latin arti- , ars professional, artistic, or technical skill, craftsmanship, artificial methods, human ingenuity, artificiality, crafty action, trick, stratagem, craftiness, guile, personal characteristic or quality, systematic body of knowledge and practical techniques, magic, one of the fine or liberal arts, profession, craft, trade, task, pursuit, artistic achievement or performance, artistic design or representation, work of art, device, contrivance, rules or principles of an art, treatise, method, system, procedure, principle of classification, in post-classical Latin also guild (from 1380 in British sources) < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ἀραρίσκειν to fit together + the Indo-European base of classical Latin -ti-, suffix forming nouns (see -TH suffix1). Compare Old Occitan art (11th cent.), Catalan art (12th cent.), Spanish arte (12th cent.; also †art ), Portuguese arte(13th cent.), Italian arte (a1294). Occasional use of the form ars as a singular in Middle English probably shows generalization of the plural form ars (itself after French). Art originally shared many of its meanings with craft (see CRAFT n. II.); however, by the 17th cent. the association of art with creative or imaginative skill (see sense 7) rather than technical ability tended to result in less semantic overlap between the two words. Especially in sense 3a art is often contrasted with science (see note at SCIENCE n. 3b), with art now frequently understood as an ability to adopt a creative or flexible approach, in contrast to the application of more theoretical or scientific principles. From the Middle Ages art has often been contrasted with nature Compare also the
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historical sense development of TECHNIC adj., TECHNICAL adj., TECHNOLOGY n. a. Skill; its display, application, or expression. b. Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice. c. Skill in the practical application of the principles of a particular field of knowledge or learning; technical skill. Obs. d. A practical application of knowledge; (hence) something which can be achieved or understood by the employment of skill and knowledge; (in early use also) a body or system of rules serving to facilitate the carrying out of certain principles. e. A practical pursuit or trade of a skilled nature, a craft; an activity that can be achieved or mastered by the application of specialist skills; (also) any one of the useful arts (see sense 4b). f. Skill in an activity regarded as governed by aesthetic as well as organizational principles. Now rare.The range of activities covered include the visual arts such as painting, drawing, and sculpture, and also other creative arts such as music, literature, dance, drama, and oratory. g. The expression or application of creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting, drawing, or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Also: such works themselves considered collectively. Cf. a work of art at WORK n. 14.Although this is the most usual modern sense of art when used without any qualification, it has not been found in English dictionaries until the 19th cent. Before then, it seems to have been used chiefly by painters and writers on painting. h. The theory and practice of the visual arts as a subject of study or examination; (also) a class or lesson in art. i. Senses relating to learning or study. j. In pl. Certain branches of study, esp. at a university, serving as a preparation for more advanced studies or for later life, spec. (a) (in the Middle Ages) the seven subjects forming the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the more advanced quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) (now hist.); (b) (in later use) a broad range of subjects, varying according to time and place but now generally taken as including languages, literature, philosophy, history, and other areas of study concerned with the processes and products of human culture and thought (cf. HUMANITY n. 2.).
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ground, v. Pronunciation /graʊnd/
Precedent, n. Pronunciation Brit. /ˈprɛsᵻd(ə)nt/ , U.S. /ˈprɛsədnt/
Forms: ME grundien, ME north. grund, ME–15 grounde, grownde, ME–15 gronde, (16 grownd), ME– ground. (Show Less)
Forms: α. lME precedente, lME precydent, lME–17 precident, lME– precedent, 15 preceedent. β. lME preseident, lME–15 presydent, lME–16 presedent, lME–16 presidente, lME–17 president, 15 presdint, 16 presadent, 16 presydentts(plural).
Etymology: Middle English < GROUND n.; compare Middle Dutch, Dutch gronden , Middle Swedish grunda . For Old English gryndan see GRIND v.2 a.To lay the foundations of (a house, etc.); to found; to fix or establish firmly. Obs.Chiefly in renderings or echoes of biblical passages. b. To set on a firm basis, to establish (an institution, a principle of action, belief, science, conclusion or argument), on some fact, circumstance, or authority. c. trans. To instruct (a person) in the fundamental or elementary principles of any branch of study. to be grounded in : to be (well or ill) acquainted with (a subject or science). d. To place or set on the ground; to cause to touch the ground; to lay down. †Also, to bring down (a weapon).
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Etymology: < PRECEDENT adj. Compare classical Latin praecēdēns (masculine) person who goes in front, person who ranks before, person who excels, (neuter) thing which precedes, prior event, preceding statement, in post-classical Latin also previous instance taken as an example or rule (1457, 1523 in British sources), uses as noun of masculine and neuter respectively of praecēdēns , adjective; compare also Middle French precedent person who goes before or in front (1392; French précédent (legal) precedent (1824) is < English). a. A previous instance taken as an example or rule by which to be guided in similar cases or circumstances; an example by which a comparable subsequent act may be justified. Freq. to set a precedent . b. concr. A document recording past proceedings, serving as a guide or rule for subsequent cases. Obs. c. An example to be followed or copied; a model, an exemplar. Obs. d. An event, person, or thing that goes before or in advance of another; a forerunner, a precursor, a predecessor; an antecedent.
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01 Ayia Trias Church
The Greek Orthodox Church of Ayia Trias is located in the Turkish occupied ghost town of Famagusta. It was designed as an integral component of a Mediterranean seaside hotel complex, a built idea about creating a place of Christian worship and ritual inspired by the multi layered byzantine era religious architecture of Cyprus.
The abstraction of these precedents was incorporated into the generation of a contemporary symbolic architectural synthesis.
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Location Famagusta Republic of Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 1972
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Holy Archbishopric of Cyprus
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
J&A Phillipou, Theoharis David associate architect
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02 Bethelite Institutional Baptist Church
The precedent looked at in an attempt to generate an idea that would provide an appropriate architectural language and acceptable community image were the various storefront churches scattered throughout often poorer urban neighborhoods. The new stepped brick street facade crowned by an illuminated glass block cross is extruded into the section along the entire length of the plan to generate both the interior space and exterior form of the church.
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Location bROOKLYN, NY
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 1989
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Bethelite institutional Baptist Church Inc.
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
Theo. David Architects
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03 New Life Baptist Church
The idea behind this neighborhood church in the East New York section of Brooklyn was to allow the symbolism of the cross to organize the plan, section and elevation of the church volume. This is introduced through the brick clad minimalism of its street facade which celebrates the suspended white steel cross whose skewed abstracted axiality enters the church, embedding itself within the rectilinear plan and acting as a generator of the architectural form of the sky lit roof.
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Location Brooklyn, NY
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 1993
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New Life Baptist Church Inc.
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
Theo. David Architects
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04 Ayios Athanasios Elementary School
The idea for this multilevel public school was born through understanding the architectural potential of the natural site. This provoked a simultaneous redefinition of the term ground (or in Greek topio, as in topology) at the macro and micro scale. At the micro scale, the plan and section idea was to imbed all of the children’s classrooms in the edge of a cliff, privileging them with broad uninterrupted views of the Mediterranean and a landscape of their homes that precede these distant views.
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Location Ayios Athanasios, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2002
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Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Cyprus
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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05 Stylianos Lena Elementary School
The organizational idea for this community of educational spaces, consisting of an elementary school and independent nursery school, was to provide an architectural identity to each by the juxtaposition of an obtuse triangle over an oval. This severe formal composition — which recalls the constructivist movement in
art — is further developed by the use of contrasting material finishes and color, while repeating the oval as an oculus cut into the triangular metal courtyard canopy as a raised exedra and music room volume.
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Location Nicosia, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2009
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Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Cyprus
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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06 Laiki Residential Training Center
The precedent for this hybrid financial services building is a monastery. It combines dormitory and dining facilities that partially encircle and enclose a shaded courtyard with adjoining educational and meeting spaces and a centrally located library.
The plan, elevated on a cylindrical podium, is an asymmetrical assemblage of circles and rectangles organized along an extruded (in section) east -west axis which relates to early 20th century abstract works of art.
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Location Yeri, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 1995
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Laiki Banking Group
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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07 GSP Stadium and Athletic Center
Recollections of modernist Art contributed subconsciously to shape the conceptual idea for this 30,000 seat soccer stadium supported by circulation elements and combined with a 6,000 seat track and field stadium. The architectural footprint of this international competition entry winner could be attributed to
a certain visual and compositional order evident in examples of abstract art as precedent. This footprint, extruded into a section and capped by a suspended steel canopy, is juxtaposed against the distant ground of a mountain range and read as a symbol realized from a synthesis of multiple themes.
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Location Nicosia Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 1998
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Pancypria Gymnastic Club
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
Teaching and Action A Life of Learning,
08 Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Arena and Sports Complex
This multilevel sports facility with a main arena accommodating 7,000 spectators is a built idea emanating from the notion of ground — or in Greek: topoi — a primary design criterion of the architectural competition won by this project.
Its sectional idea is both an implant into and a continuation of the existing site contours, while its multi layer undulating roof surfaces are meant to visually float just above the surrounding hills, thus demonstrating another expression of ground.
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Location Lemesos, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2007
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Cyprus Sports Organization
ARCHITECT / eNGINEERS
Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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09 Allegra GSP Sports Center
The contrasts of form evident in works of art of the modern era played a subliminal role in shaping the idea for this mixed use structure consisting of living, training and recreational facilities for athletes. These functions are integrated using structural and functional clarity with additional stadium seating for several thousand spectators.
Basic geometric forms or gestures, such as a cylinder, radial arc, line and a triangulated prism, are architecturally composed to generate a dynamic architectural presence integrated with the given geometries of the adjoining sports pitches.
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Location Nicosia Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2008
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Pancypria Gymnastic Club
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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10 Kaimakli Community Sports Center
The idea for the design of this suburban neighborhood athletic center was inspired by emotional, as well as actual, ground. The 3,000seat fair faces a concrete and ochre block superstructure protected by a wing-shaped steel canopy, borders on a no man’s land military buffer zone dividing a country, and looks
beyond to the history laden Kyrenia mountain range. The adapted morphology of an aircraft wing could be identified as a precedent for the defining architectural component of this work.
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Location Nicosia Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2012
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Nicosia Municipality
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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11 Thalia David Residence
The idea for this home for a widowed mother and grandmother living alone was born out of a sensory definition of ground as expressed by the scent, feel and earth of an orange grove, the direction of wind and possibility of view.
All of this home’s openings and penetrations without exception acquire meaning because of the way they are oriented by and connected to the concept of ground as defined by the natural characteristics of the extended site.
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Location Morphou, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 1974
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Thalia L. David
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Theoharis David
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12 Gladstonos 22
This 34 unit residential complex is part of the continuum of the urban development of a 1,100-year-old Eastern Mediterranean city is a BUIL T IDEA evolved from a precedent related to residential architecture of the modern movement which defines the project’s site. Its realization is offered as a paradigm serving as
proof that architecture can achieve a developer / contractor client’s economic goals while satisfying the interests of diverse stakeholders, including the resident owners and approval bodies, while respecting a landmarked neighborhood and the distinct environmental characteristics of the site.
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Location Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2009
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J&P Ltd.
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL In association with NMA Architects
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13 Bleu
A Ground condition defined by the not too distant horizon of the Mediterranean Sea, the intense blue of the Cypriot sky and ancient rock out cropping and stone quarries that inhabited the site all combined to shape an idea about this vacation residential complex of 18 living units.
A unique relationship to ground is generated not only by the expected framing of the distant ground, but by allowing a symbiotic relationship between the built form and existing rock formations.
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Location Protaras, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2010
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Nice Day Developments
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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14 private Residence
The idea for this residence for a young family, built on a suburban corner lot, was informed by thinking how, as in certain works of art, an entire microcosm can be accommodated and expressed within the restrictive volume of a cube of space.
The microcosm of the act of dwelling is expressed not only by spatial folding within the given volume, but with the juxtaposition of contrasting materials, including water that defines horizontally and vertically habitable space.
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Location Aglantzia, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2011
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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15 Spyros and MaryAnn Stavrinides Residence
Symbolism through the choice and use of a specific material, metal cladding, to define the sharp wedged volume which contains an amateur radio studio that is part of the identity of the client, helps describe this volumetrically modulated family
residence. This symbolic use of material is repeated at significant functional junctures of the house. The integration of a curvilinear rough stone retaining wall underscores further the symbolic idea and material behind the architecture.
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Location Aglantzia, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2010
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Spyros Stavrinides
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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16 Phileleftheros Head Offices
The graphic symbolism implied in the architectural morphology of this digital production and administrative center for a media group, was inspired by building technology adopted from the idea of fuselage as precedent. The fuselage also appropriated as symbol, becomes
the container for built independent objects that reflect and house diverse uses including digital production facilities, exhibition galleries, an auditorium, volumetrically articulated building infrastructure and private office suites.
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Location Nicosia Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2013
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Phileleftheros Public Company LTD.
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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17 Cavo Greco Environmental Center
The brief for this open competition entry for an environmental center required a learning center, public facilities, a small museum and ways of experiencing this protected cape protruding into the sea.
While the architectonic composition of the entire programmatic element might be attributed to certain movements in art, it is the expression of ground through a precise incision into and a cantilevered projection beyond the given site condition, that defines the idea behind the design concept.
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Location Cavo Greco, Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David BUILT YEAR 2006
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Ministry of the Interior, Republic of Cyprus
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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18 St. Nicholas Church
A proposal for the rebuilding of a church at the WTC site whose idea was generated by an abstraction of symbols specific to the Orthodox Christian liturgy and tradition combined with the geometrical space of a sphere, which often symbolizes universality and as a response to the desire of the congregation for an ecumenical space. The idea is completed as a proposal inspired by works of art
reinterpreted which both envelops and opens up to all who may wish to enter, a place of worship, prayer, solitude and peace.
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Location World Trade Center, NYC
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David proposal 2012
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Theoharis David
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19 Old GSP Competition
The idea behind this competition entry for the design of a vacated site in the midst of an evolving civic center was--while having to reprogram the existing ground — to explore the re-definition of ground as a transformative act, then through a dynamic design concept, into a symbolic architecture for Nicosia, a world capital. This was achieved by tilting up almost the entire site of the old GS P stadium, creating a gently inclined and rotated landscape plane as a gesture toward the facade of the new National Theatre.
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Location Nicosia Cyprus
ΔOmhmEnEΣ IΔEEΣ Theoharis David competition 2011
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Nicosia Municipality, Cyprus Department of Town Planning
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Theo. David Architects TDA+KAL
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see project 8 Spyros Kyprianou Palais des Sport, page 34
see project 8 Spyros Kyprianou Palais des Sport, page 34
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see project 19Old GSP Competition URBAN P.A.C.T. , page 56
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see project 9 Allegra GSP Sports Center, page 36
see project 9 Allegra GSP Sports Center, page 36
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see project 17 Cavo Greco Environmental Center, page 52
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see project 6 Laiki Residential Training Center, page 30
see project 6 Laiki Residential Training Center, page 30
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see project 15 Stavrinides Residence, page 48
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see project 16 Phileleftheros Head Offices, page 50
see project 3 New Life Baptist Church, page 24
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see project 15 Stavrinides Residence, page 48
see project 10 Kaimakli Community Sports Center, page 38
see project 19Old GSP Competition URBAN P.A.C.T. , page 56
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see project 18 St. Nicholas Church, page 54
see project 14 Private Residence, page 46
see project 18 St. Nicholas Church, page 54
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J. Jong Hyun Yi
K. Lindberg
L. Modrcin
S.Ionescu
K.Papapetrou
G. Scheidler
B. Cuaycong
K.Alexandrou
J.Aizaki
J. Morri
J. Schmidt
A. Hernandez
E. O’Donnell
V. Blaise
Ch. Bickford
H. Boiangiu
Students Represented in Exhibit
see project 14 Private Residence, page 46
see project 3 New Life Baptist Church, page 24
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PROJECT TEAM
CONSTRUCTION
SPECIAL THANKS
Curator Christoph a. Kumpusch
Installation Team Schuyler Klein, Ali Fouladi, Anne Marie Perez, Jasper Hayes, Kelly Smolenski, Jonathan Jarquin, Richard Miller, Juan Sala, Taylor Sams, Chris Fantin, Iting Tsai, Keumbi Noh, Brendan O’Shea, Daniela Kolodesh, Neda Kakhsaz, Martin Velez, Wanling Li
Kurt Everhart Rodrigo Guajardo Melissa David Alexi David Eric Wong Mark Parsons Nicole Katz Kane Austin
Exhibit Design Architect Christoph a. Kumpusch Design and Curatorial Team Schuyler Klein, Ali Fouladi, Ryan Joseph Simons, Indiana Morales, Adam Orlinski, Taylor Sams, Emre Bozatli Model Team — New York Shaked Uzrad, Mike Tingen, Kelly Smolenski, Azeem Khan, Jonathan Jarquin, Richard Miller, Juan Sala, Beijia Gu, Brian Dobrolsky, Jasper Hayes, Richard Tengurian, Umit Kuroglu Model Team — Cyprus Emre Bozatli, Maria Christofi, Robert Di Fulvio Coordination Schuyler Klein
Column Fabrication Anne Marie Perez, Ali Fouladi, Joel Kokin, Alyza Enriquez, Ryan Esparza, Yani Gao, Yuli Huang, Rebecca Pierson, Neha Sadruddin, Chi Ieong Wong, Philip Zucker, Hudson Sackrider-De Ricco, Chris Fantin, Iting Tsai, Xiaoke He, Gabriela Fiorentino Cedeno Digital Fabrication Anne Marie Perez, Ali Fouladi, Joel Kokin, Alyza Enriquez, Ryan Esparza, Yani Gao, Yuli Huang, Rebecca Pierson, Neha Sadruddin, Chi Ieong Wong, Philip Zucker, Hudson Sackrider-De Ricco, Chris Fantin, Iting Tsai, Xiaoke He, Gabriela Fiorentino Cedeno CONSULTANTS Fabrication Rodrigo Guajardo Column Fabrication Anne Marie Perez, Rick Klein
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PHOTOGRAPHY Projects Charalambos Artemis, Emre Bozatli, Theoharis David, Sean Hemmerle, John Veltri Exhibition Alyza Enriquez CATALOGUE Graphic Design Won Sok Choi − wo s o c h b u r i Editor Ryan Joseph Simons Printing Paper Chase, 7176 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046 (323) 874-2300 www.paperchase.net
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Theoharis David Architect and Professor, faia Theoharis David was born in the United States of Cypriot immigrant parents. He holds a B. Arch degree from Pratt institute and went on after serving as a musician in the US Army, to graduate school at Yale University, where he studied directly under the modernist master Paul Rudolph, graduating in 1964 with a Master of Architecture degree. After gaining work experience in New York, he took the advice of Rudolph to “go where you can build” and went in 1967 as a young man to the recently independent Republic of Cyprus. As assistant architect with the firm of J&A Phillipou, he was entrusted with the design of a number of significant projects including government offices, hotels and radical for its time, 1970, the church of Ayia Trias in Famagusta through which he enjoyed a creative relationship with the legendary President and Archbishop of Cyprus, Makarios III, the client. After the Greek junta coup and Turkish invasion of 1974, Theo refused to abandon Cyprus despite the uncertainty that existed, and return to the security of his teaching position at Pratt. Having secured the safety of his young family he returned and with his then partner headed the team for the design of the first refugee housing estates in the now divided country. Theo. was also a founding director of CAEC a pioneering architect’s collaborative formed to counter the effects of the 1974 war. In 1979 Theo. was appointed Chair of Graduate Architecture at Pratt Institute where he brought to the faculty significant architects such as Lebbeus Woods, Hani Rashid, John Johansen, Giuliano Fiorenzoli, Teodoro Gonzales de Leon, Nicos Kalogeras and Michael Webb. He also originated and directed for twenty years the “Pratt in Cyprus + Greece” foreign studies program.
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His former firm David & Dikaios Associates continued in Cyprus with the realization of for that era technologically advanced buildings such as head offices for Universal Life, industrial buildings, prefabricated housing for Hellenic Mining Ltd. and a major exhibition hall for the Cyprus State Fair. Theo was also active in New York City with the completion of award winning churches and interiors that have been documented as part of the late 20th century architecture legacy of New York City. In 1988 he formed a joint venture with KAL Engineering, TDA+KAL, which went on to design a number of major projects in Cyprus such as the GSP Stadium and Athletic Center which received the Cyprus State Award for Architecture, and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and the Spyros Kyprianou Arena both the result of open competitions. Other built projects included a prototypical Residential Training Center for a major financial institution, the Allegra GSP Athletes Center, along with elementary schools which the Ministry of Education considers exemplary. The Gladstonos 22 Housing development in Nicosia, was shortlisted for a 2011 World Architecture Festival Award. In 1993, Theo. achieved tenure and a full professorship at Pratt and in 1996 was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects for “notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture”.
In 2005 he was named Chair of the Advisory Committee for architecture of the University of Cyprus and was instrumental in the creation of the Department of Architecture where he continues as visiting professor. In 2006 the Cyprus Government appointed him a founding director of the Cyprus Cultural Foundation where he has been a driving force behind the architectural plans for the Cyprus Cultural Center. At Pratt he negotiated an agreement between the School of Architecture and the University of Cyprus, and has served on the Academic Senate and Board of Trustees. Theo. has also contributed to design awards programs worldwide iincluding the Aga Khan Awards and has chaired the New York Chapter of the AIA Distinguished Architecture Awards program having also been elected to its Honors Committee. His own awards include the City Club of New York Bard Award for Excellence in Design, a NYSAIA Design Award, an ADPSR Design Citation, Architecture Magazine Design Award, and the Cyprus Architects Prize for 2009. He has been characterized by his American peers as “a teacher of teachers” and has advocated for architectural excellence by encouraging and supporting the work of younger architects. Theo. David is currently involved in projects in Cyprus, New York, Romania and the Middle East while continuing to teach full time. He has lectured in Nicosia, New York, Athens, Thessaloniki, Shanghai, Barcelona, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Charleston and elsewhere and has been a guest critic at Yale, CCNY, Cooper Union, Metropolis Program Univ. of Cataluña Barcelona, the AA London, Columbia, Temple, Texas A&M, RPI, University of Syracuse etc. His work as an architect and educator continues to be exhibited and published internationally.
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Christoph a. Kumpusch
Lebbeus Woods
Dean Thomas Hanrahan
Christoph a. Kumpusch is a New York based architect and PhD candidate in architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is a co-director of Forward-slash, an interdisciplinary practice founded in 2008 and the head of their research division Back-slash. He is a Leonardo da Vinci Fellow and a Rudolf M. Schindler Scholar, USAA Scholar and National Collegiate Engineering Award winner for outstanding commitment to academic excellence; was a MAK Center Architect in Residence in 2003, the co-author of System Wien with Lebbeus Woods, Anthony Vidler and Manuel DeLanda, the editor of IDEA(u) topsy and consultant to the Architectural Forum and Association for Urban Development and Research in Beijing. He has previously taught at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Ohio State University, Cornell University, SCI-Arc and Guangzhou University in China.
Lebbeus Woods is a New York-based architect and theorist whose projects that have thrilled and challenged the architecture profession. He trained at University of Illinois and Purdue University and worked in the offices of Eero Saarinen before devoting himself exclusively to theory and experimental projects. Among Woods’s best known work are provocative proposals for San Francisco, Sarajevo and Havana, each created when those cities were experiencing crises. He is the author of System Wien, The Storm and the Fall, and Pamphlet Architecture 15: War and Architecture.
Dean Thomas Hanrahan is a New Yorkbased architect and a founding partner of HanrahanMeyers architects (hMa) and the Dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. He has been the principal architect on numerous award winning projects including the Holley Residence which featured at the Museum of Modern Art in 1999; the Won Dharma Center (2010 Design Award, Faith + Form Magazine) where he has overviewed the development of a 550-acre site into a zero-carbon footprint landscape and is overseeing the construction of hMa’s five buildings on the site; the Pratt Design Center, and the Interpretive Center Museum in Chattanooga, TN, and ‘LightArc’, a Platinum LEED-rated community center adjacent to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.
Current projects of his office c.a.k LAB / +maison de architecture include a community embassy in Kenya, Africa; a social housing tower in Budapest, Hungary and the Light Pavilion in Chengdu, China in collaboration with Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl Architects. His dissertation, “Detail-Kultur”, focuses on the complex behavior of details in the built environment.
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Woods co-founded the non-profit Research Institute for Experimental Architecture and is a professor at The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Woods is a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and his works are in public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris; the Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna; the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His first built work in collaboration with Christoph a. Kumpusch and Steven Holl Architects, the Light Pavilion, is currently under construction in Chengdu, China.
He is the author of a monograph on his own work The Four States of Architecture and the main hMa principal overviewing the Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan and has a unique expertise in green master planning and sustainable urban design and has hosted a symposium in New York in collaboration with Metropolis magazine titled: ‘Global Warming’. The symposium addressed issues of green technologies applied to building construction as well as regional urbanism and sustainable development. He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board at The Architect’s Newspaper.
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