CHRISTOS PAPOULIAS, archi tect

Born in Athens , Greece : 19 /09 /1953

Stud ies o f a rch i t ec tu re i n Ven ice a tt he I .U.A.V. , wi th M.Taf fu r i , Car loScarpa , Aldo Ross i f rom 1971 to 1976 .Dip loma work on a p roposed newbu i ld ing fo r a micro f i lm arch ive andl ib ra ry fo r t he Ven ice Bienna le . Thep ro j ec t was j udged wi th 110 e l ode .

F luen t i n fou r l anguages : Greek ,I t a l i an , Eng l i sh and French .

Af t e r t he d ip loma in Arch i t ec tu ref rom Ven ice , I l e f t fo r Par i s t o fo l l owthe l es sons o f Miche l Foucau l t andRo land Bar thes a t t he ‘Co l l ege deFrance’ . In t he win t e r o f 1980 I movedto New York in o rder t o fo l l ow thel ec tu res a t t he In s t i t u t e fo r UrbanStud ies .

Dur ing th i s l as t per iod there began at ime o f persona l connec t ion wi th t hewor ld and the i deas o f con temporaryar t . I met wi th a r t i s t s l i ke JosefBeuys , and found f r i endsh ip wi thBr i ce Marden , J ann i s Kounel l i s andJuan Munoz , as wel l as wi th o therar t i s t s , c r i t i cs o f a r t , cu ra to rs ,a rchaeo log i s t s and museum d i rec to rs .Th i s t ime o f exp lo ra t i on andexper i ence became one bas i s fo r t hematu r ing o f a concep tua l method andapproach towards a rch i t ec tu re as i si nd i ca t ed by the works fo l l owingbelow.

SELECTED REALIZED /PROPOSED PROJECTSACTIVITIES ANDINVOLVEMENTS WHICHCONCERN ART ANDARCHITECTURE ANDMUSEOLOGY.Curator ia l - Organiza t ion o fexhibi t ions – Exhibi t ion des ignIns ta l la t ions and o ther act iv i t i es

1981 – 1991Working with BERNIER Gallery inAthens, a ssis t i ng in al l the exhibi t ionspresented in Athens. During that decadeI met wi th , helped to insta l l the art o f ,dis cussed and t raveled in Greece withsome of t he mos t prominentint ernat ional a rt is ts of th is per iod,establ ish ing at that t ime a dialogue

which, wi th mos t of t hem, s t i l l cont inues.

Thi s rela t ionsh ip with art and wi thart is ts , formed a bas is for a developingunderstanding o f methods by whichart is t ic concep ts cou ld be transcribedinto works of a rchi tecture.

1982In conversat ions with the d irecto r of t he‘Centre d’Art Con temporaine’ (Geneva),Adel ina Von Furstenberg, I in t roducedto her the poss ibi l i t ies of an engagementbetween archi t ecture and a rt , suggest ingan exhibi t ion a t the Centre consi s t ingent i rely of archi tectural models whichwas real i zed and cata logued under thet i t le, “Maquet tes d’ Archi tecture”.

1982Par t icipa t ing in Josef Beuys’ t reeplant ing in Kassel fo r the DOCUMENTAVI.

1985 FIRST REALIZATIONDOMUS No 666 (November, p . 22-23)pub l ishes my fi rs t construc ted work -- anind ividua l fami ly house for a lawyer inLevadia, Centra l Greece

1987 REALIZEDInter ior recons truct ion o f the 5 t h

f l oor on 1 Maras l i Street , Athens .The apar tmen t be longs t o t he owner o fGal l e ry Bern i e r and i s des igned asres idence , as a space fo r i n s t a l l a t i on , aswel l as fo r t he accommodat ion o fexh ib i t i ng a r t i s t s .1987 REALIZED

Extens ion o f the space o f Ga l l eryBernier on 51 Maras l i Street i n to anad jacen t apar tmen t , c rea t ing a newspace fo r t he o f f i ce and l i b ra ry o f t hega l l e ry .

1987 PROPOSED PROJECTRes torat i on and addi t ion, a t JannisKounel l is es tat e, Tuscany, Italy .A f i rs t approach toward what is t odaytermed ‘conceptual design’, this projec thad as i t s ini t ial el ements theres torat i on and extension o f two small ,s tone-bui l t , t radi t ional houses s et on asteep s lope in the Tuscan h i l ls . Theextension of each house, in form as i fhal f hidden volumes o f old booksholding up broken domest ic furni ture,conceptua l izes a humanist ic cul tu rewhich acknowledges bo th thepersis tence of memory and thenecessary maint enance and recovery ofhis torica l art i facts .

1988 REALIZEDRefurbishment o f an existing housewith the addition of a new studio forthe arti st Jannis Kounell is on theis land of Hydra .

1988-1993TEFCHOSMagazine of Architecture, Art andDes ign.Member of the Edi tori al Board andresponsib le for the Visual Arts pages.Discussions and work presen tat ion withthe most promis ing Greek ar t is ts of tha tt ime. Essays from int ernat ional c ri t icsand phi lo sophers on contemporary artsub jects as wel l as an unpubl ishedint erview with Donald Judd on art andarchi tecture.Organizat ion of col loquiums on ar t andarchi tecture and exhibi t ions, and also acongress at the ‘Musee d’ artcon temporaine’ a t Grenoble, (France)with Jorgos Symeoforidis .In the 1 s t i s sue of Tefchos, I publ ished anart icle with the t i t l e ‘Form as a Concept’using examples from the Eden pavi l ionby J .Herzog and de Meuron and from theTuscan houses o f Jannis Kounel l i s(un fortunately, not bui l t as planned dueto permit problems).

1990 REALIZED

Funeral monument at the cemetery ofLevadia, GreeceThe tomb design comments upon anot ion of Ado lf Loos -- Art andArchi tecture can meet only on the gravestone.

1991 PROPOSED PROJECTThe New Acropol is Museum in Athens.I cal led this p roject “The Eri chthoneanMuseum of the Acropol is”, as a way ofseparat ing myse lf from what Iconsidered mist aken museological ideasin the of ficial competi t ion program. Iworked wi th a new museological ideawhich took into considerat i on the ci ty ,the archaeological s i te and thetopological character is t ics , and in doingso genera ted my own and very differentprogram. I did not submit t he pro ject t othe Jury, but i t was presen ted at theDocumenta X and at the Biennale o f Art1999 in Venice. The p roject was a lsopub l ished as a ‘manifesto’ andexh ibi ted at the Biennale o fArchi tecture, Venice 1996 (curato r,Hans Hol lein), and p resented at theDOCUMENTA X (100 Days 100 Guests ,curated by Catherine David) . Thepro ject was a part of my book onmuseum archi tec ture (HYPERTOPOS,Can tz 1987, Stugart) which includedart icles by Kenneth Frampton,Catherine David , Yehuda Saf ran andAles Vodopivec as wel l as myself . TheEri cththonean Museum, along withUrban Rooms (a proposed museum fo rLjubl jana , Slovenia), were exhibi ted byHarald Szeemann at the Biennale of Art(Venice 1999) – the only archi tec turalwork shown. The original projectdrawings are now in t he pos session ofthe ‘Cent re Georges Pompidou’, (Paris-acquired in 2000). Now in show (un t i lthe end o f February 2006) as part of the‘BIG BANG’ exhibi t ion in the C. G.Pompidou.

1991 PROPOSED PROJECTVENICE BIENNALE new Art Pav i l ion.“Ideas fo r a New Greek Pavi l ion” , a t theGreek Pav i l ion.One of the main ideas in th is pro ject i sLight -- Light in paint ing and that l ightof archi t ecture which can i l luminate ar t .The floor and wal ls (of reinforced

concrete poured in one piece) areseparated at the corners by thicktransparent glass . Thus each wal l in theexh ibi t ion space is detached by a vert i calcon t inui ty , the glass i tsel f repl acingbeam and column , reso lving the problemof the co rner and al l owing theint roduct ion of natural l ight giv ing to thewal ls a s ense o f independence. Thetradi t ional sol id framing o f the wal l i shere repl aced by the l ight .

1991 – 1993 REALIZEDRes idence and museum spaces for acol lector of contemporary art inAnavryta, Athens. The winning of aprivate competi tion by invi tation .(col laboration, 1 s t phase)I b roke the program o f a ‘Pal ladi an’ s i zeres idenceintoseveralvolumeson anaxi scomposing an‘urban’si t uat ion .Thepro jectwas afinal is t at

the MIES VAN DER ROHE Award at1997.

1991 – 1999 REALIZED

Connection and additions to three

exi sting houses and the des ign of anew studio space for the artist on theis land of Hydra , Greece.

1992Des ignated by Jan Hoet , dur ing thepreparat i ons fo r his DOCUMENTA IX,

as ‘the counter part of a v irtual spect atorof the exhibi t i on’, I ass is ted anddiscussed with the cu ratori al group atmos t of t he meet ings during of the threepreparato ry years .

1993ARCHIS review in Rott erdam (No 12 ,

December 1993, p . 56-66) -- the coverand several pages ded icated to some ofmy projec ts , along wi th a l ong es say byYehuda Safran on my work.

1995 PROPOSED PROJECTURBAN ROOMS, on the embankment ofcen tral Ljubl jana, Slovenia .In a workshop, organized by the Schoolof Archi t ecture , Ljub l jana, Iexperimen ted wi th and examined the ideaof the ‘missing pedes tal’ and how i tcou ld be replaced, us ing as a teachingtoo l a novel by Juan Munoz – ‘TheSegment’ . My main concern was how topresent a rt clo ser to the u rban l i fe of amodernci ty ,inv i t ingin thiscon textthepar t icipa tion of theart is tMichelangeloPis tolet t o . Therefore , from the beginningthe project was a col labora t ion o f art andarchi tecture, t o the extent of us ing worksof art asanint egralpar t ofthe s tat i csys tem.TheUrban

Rooms was included wi th theEri cthonean Museum, i n DOCUMENTAX (1997) and the Venice Biennale ofArt (1999) and was al so acquired by the‘Centre George Pompidou’ fo r theBeaubourg col lect ion (see above).Though the Mayor of Ljubl jana inv i tedme to complete the project , the UrbanRooms was not real ized as i t conf l ictedwith the judgement of the Commissionfor the Archi tecture of Josef Plecknik.

1995 – 2003 REALIZEDA theater for the Arts “Thesseum”,central Athens, GreeceThi s proj ect was real ized for a t heatercompany (120 seats) both fo rinnovat ive drama and as an interact iveform of space sui tabl e for theper formance and exhib i t ion of otherart s . Two old l umber warehouses were

joined and t ransformed al l funct ions,inc luding the s tai rcase, condensed to asingle concrete conta iner, except anadd i t ion on the roof which serves as alof t for internat iona l workshops. Thepro ject acts wi thin t he memory of thepreexis t i ng space – i ts und is turbedvis ibi l i t y .

1996 REALIZEDEpicenter Gallery overlooking theAthens Central Market (Greece) , wasdes igned and construc ted on the f i rs tfloor of an exi s t ing bui lding.A shifted cube was in troduced toincrease the amount o f avai lable wal lsfor the gal lery and a t the same t imecreated two kinds of spaces thuscha l lenging (and play ing wi th) thenormal in stal la t ion p rocesses .

2003 REALIZEDModificat ions and new funct ion forexhibition spaces at the ex isting

DESTE foundation building a t OmirouStr . Psychico, Athens , Greece (part ial lyrea l ized)

2004 REALIZEDExhibition space, for the DESTEFoundation, N. Ionia, AthensAn exis t i ng fac tory o f 4 .000sq.m. wastransformed in order to house a part ofthe Dak is Ioannou col lect ion fo r theexh ibi t ion ‘Monument to Now’ du ring theAthens Olympic Games.

2005 REALIZEDAddition and rearrangement of thegal leries in an exist ing residence, for acol lector of contemporary art, 3 AvrasStr . Kif iss ia , Athens.

PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

1999 –Family house for a co l lector ofcontemporary art at Kantza, AthensThe col lector’s house , on a small plot of

land, is spl i t in to two volumesconnected by an exter ior s t ai rcase onthe upper spl i t level floors . Thedis tancing open sect ion provides thehouse with an i nner courtyard. Th ishouse, (s topped due to the owners ’financial problems), wil l be completednex t year .

2003 –Vacation house for a col lector ofcontemporary art at the is land ofTinos, Cyclades, Greece.The house is located on a s teep s lope o fnar row te rracing amid low d ry s tonefarm outbui ldings and two abandonedmarble quarries . The s t riat ions o f theret aining wal ls wrap and en fold t hestructure of the house in a cont inui ty ofhab i tat ion and landscape.The final form, in great part the resul tof his tor ical research (Cycladic toVenet ian t imes) , is nearer geolog icalformation than to elaborated design.

COMPETITIONS

1995EXTENSION OFTHEMODERNAGALLERIA,LJUBLJANA –SLOVENIACol labora t ion with Prof. Ales VodopivecThi s was a nat ional competi t ion byinv i tat ion. We were s elected but thepro ject was not const ructed because therewas a dis agreement between municipalauthori t i es over our proposal to extendthe museum under the adjacent square.

1999

NEWCENTERFOR THEARTS,ROME,Ita ly.I wassel ected for the second phase of theInt ernat ional Competi t ion for the newmuseum in Rome.As Rome was an ini t ia l cent er of ARTEPOVERA and as works o f Arte Poveraare to be a par t of t he permanentcol lect ion of t he museum, - - taking theseelements as a s tart ing poin t – Imaintained the s t ructure of the exis t ingbar raques as a space ‘povero’,condensing the rest o f the program intoan ‘Urban Cave’ , the las t object beforethe cut o f the Tiber, i tsel f cut by a s t reetaxi s as i f formed by a tel l uric i nciden t .

An elevat ed plaza serves as a pla teaufor event s as wel l as a rai sed (p lateau )urban space with an overview of t heci ty and the ri ver.

WORKS OF ART and ARCHITECTURE,PRODUCED FOR ART EXHIBITIONS

The ‘et ernal house’ -- Biennale ofCet inje, Montenegro

The ‘di spersed house’ -- (Video 9 min.)produced by the Museum ofCon temporary Ar t Athens), for theexh ibi t ion ‘Big Brother’ Archi tec tureand Surve i l lance.

The ‘evacuat ion house’ -- HydraIs l and, Greece

‘Some l ike i t hot’ -- Art Athens, Athens

PUBLICATIONS1985 DOMUS 666, Mil an, I t aly1986 ARCHITECTURE AND ART 17 , Athens, Greece1989 ARCHITECTURE AND ART 20 , Athens, Greece1989 TEFCHOS 1, Athens , Greece1991 TEFCHOS 5, Athens , Greece1991 5 t h INTERNATIONALEXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURE, Venice B iennal e cata logue, Italy1991 5 t h INTERNATIONALEXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURE, Venice Biennale Greek catalogue, Venice, I taly1993 ARTI 15, Athens, Greece1993 ARCHIS 12 , Rot terdam, Holl and1994 LOTUS INTERNATIONAL 81,Mil an, I taly1994 CITY INVASIONS (ca talogue), Archi tektur Zentrum Wien, Austri a1994 Gal lery DESSA , (Folder ) Ljubl j ana, S lovenia.1995 «The Pub l ic Space», (ca talogue), Archi tektur Zentrum Wien, Austria1995 ARCHITECTURE AND ART 26 , Athens, Greece1995 BAUWELT 38 , Berl in , Germany1996 AB 131-132, Ljubl j ana, S lovenia1996 LIST 17, Ljub l jana, Slovenia1996 Museum of Modern Ar t ,Ljubl jana , S lovenia (fo lder)1996 6 t h INTERNATIONALEXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURE, Venice B iennal e cata logue, Italy1996 AREA 29 , I taly1996 A3 Review 2 , Athens, Greece1996 A3 Review 3 , Athens, Greece1996 A3 Review 5 , Athens, Greece1997 MIES VAN DER ROHE 5 t h

Award, (cat alogue), Electa, Milan, I taly

1997 ARCHITECTURE AND ART 28 , Athens , Greece1997 DOCUMENTA _ DOCUMENTSNo. 3 , Kassel , Germany1997 DOMUS 797 , Milan, I ta ly1998 DOMUS 803 , Milan, I ta ly1998 MEGALOPOLE «le monumental»17, F rance1999 48t h BIENNALE OF ART, Venice B iennal e cata logue, Italy1999 METRONOME 4-5 -6, Frankfur t , Germany1999 20t h CENTURYARCHITECTURE: GREECE, (ca talogue), Deutsches Archi tektur Museum, Frank furt am Main , Germany1999 LANDSCAPES OF MODERNIZATION Greek Archi tecture 1960s—1990s, (Catalogue), Nether lands Archi tecture Inst i t ute, Rot terdam, Ho lland1999 ARTE FUTURA, (Competi t ion catalogue), Electa, Milan , I taly1999 A3 Review 12, Athens, Greece1999 THE LAST HOUSE , MonicaGil i , Barcelona, Spain2000 7t h INTERNATIONALEXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURE, Venice B iennal e Greek cata logue, Venice, I taly2000 ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE34, Athens, Greece1999 ART AND ARCHITECTURE:new a f f ini t ies , Jul ia Schulz- Dornburg, G.G. Barcelona, Spain2000 SEMAINE INTERNATIONALE2000, ( catalogue), Ecole d’ archi t ecture de Nancy, France2002 BIG BROTHER, Archi tec tureand Survei l lance , ( catalogue), Nat iona l Museum of Modern Art , Athens, Greece2002 REKONSTRUKCIJA , 4 t h Cet inie Bienna le cat alogue , Montenegro2003 BECOMING , ( catalogue),Hydra, Greece2003 KREATIVITAT UNDKONROLLE , UdK lectu re ser ies , Berl in2003 supra.doc , Summit of Donost ia, San Sebast ian2003 THE PIONEERS , ( catalogue),

Futura , Athens, Greece2004 9 t h INTERNATIONALEXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURE, Venice B iennal e Greek cata logue, Venice, I taly2005 DREAMSCAPES, (ca talogue),

Volos, Greece

BOOKS

1998 Chris tos Papoul iasHYPERTOPOS, (German-English edi t i on), Can tz Ver lag, Ost fi ldern, Germany

1999 Ch ris tos Papou l iasHYPERTOPOS,

(Greek-English vers ion), Fu tura Press , Athens, Greece

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1995 Gal lery DESSA, Ljubl jana,Slovenia1996 Mala Galerja, Museum of Modern Ar t , Ljubl jana , Slovenia1996 Kappatos Gal lery, Athens, Greece

EXHIBITIONS1991 5 t h In ternat ional Archi t ecture B iennal e, Ven ice, I taly1991 Academy of Fine Art s , Wien, Aus tria1994 Archi tektur Zentrum Wien, Austria1996 Archi tektur Zentrum Wien, Austria1996 6 t h In ternat ional Exhibi t ion o f Archi tecture Venice Biennale.1996 1 s t Int ernat ional Biennale of Florence -“Proget to Arte”-

Museum of Modern Art , Prato, I ta ly1997 DOCUMENTA X, Kassel ,Germany1997 FREAK SHOW, Athens, Greece1999 LANDSCAPES OFMODERNIZATION – Greek Archi t ecture 1960s— 1990s, Netherl ands Archi tecture In st i tut e, Rot terdam, Holl and1999 20 t h CENTURYARCHITECTURE: GREECE Deu tches Archi t ektur Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany1999 ARTE FUTURA, Gal leri aNazionale d’Ar te Moderna, Compet i t ion Exhibi t i on, Rome, It aly1999 48 t h In ternat ional Art Exhibi t i on, Venice Biennale2000 7 t h In ternat ional Exhibi t ion o f Archi tec ture, Venice Biennale2002 BIG BROTHER,ARCHITECTURE AND SURVEILLANCE, Museum ofModern Ar t , Athens, Greece1999 4 t h Bi ennale of Cet inie,

Mon tenegro2003 BECOMING, Hydra, Greece2003 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art , Thessalonica, Greece2003 9 t h In ternat ional Exhibi t ion o f Archi tecture, Venice Biennale2005 DREAMSCAPES, Art cen ter ‘Giorgio De Ch irico’ , Volos, Greece2005 BIG BANG, Cent re Georges

Pompidou, Paris , France

LECTURES1991 Centre d’Art Con temporain, Geneva, Switzerland1991 AA Schoo l of Archi tecture, London, UK1992 Museum o f Modern Art , Tourquoing, France1992 Acadeny i f Fine Arts Wien, Austria1992 I . Tounda Gal l ery, AthensGreece1993 XI Internat ional Symposium, Pi ran, S lovenia1993 Archi tektur Zentrum Wien, Austria1994 Dessa Gal lery, Ljubl jana,Slovenia1995 Archi tek tur Zentrum Wien, Austria1995 Stadelscu le, Frankfur t , Germany

1995 Un iversi ty of Social and Pol i t ical Studies , Athens, Greece1996 School o f Arch i tectu re, Ljubl jana, Slovenia1996 Museum o f Modern Art ,Ljubl jana , Slovenia1997 ‘Centre pour l ’ arch i tectu re’, Thomas More, La Touret te, France1998 School o f Fine Arts , Athens Greece1998 Ci t tadel l arte, Bie l la, I taly1999 Kingston Universi ty , UK2000 Archi tektur Zen trum, Graz, Austria2000 Ecole d’ Archi tecture de Nancy, France2003 Universi t y of Skopje, Summer School at the _onastery St . Joachim Osogovski , Skopje2003 Universi t ät der Künste, Berl in2003 School of archi tecture, Universi t y of Thessa ly (UTH), Greece2003 School of archi tecture, Ar is tote l ian Univers i ty of Thessalonica, Greece2004 School of archi tecture, Nat ional Technica l Universi ty of Athens, Greece2004 SRISHTI Academy, School of Art Des ign and Technology, Bangalore , Ind ia2004 Med iterranean Archi tectural Center, Summer schoo l of Archi tec ture, Crete, Greece2005 School of archi tecture, Un iversi ty of Skopje2005 School of archi tecture, UTH

EDUCATION1993 3 r d In ternat ional Archi t ecture Seminar, Archi tektur Zentrum, Wien, Austria1995 5 t h In ternat ional Archi t ecture Seminar (with M. Pi s tolet to), Archi tektur Zen trum Wien, Austria1995 Stadelschule, Frankfu rt , Germany1995-1996 Un iversi ty of Social and Pol i t ical Studies , Teach ing Aesthet i cs and Hi s tory of Art , Athens, Greece1996 Seminar at the Schoo l of Archi tec ture, Ljubl j ana, S lovenia1996 Academy of Fine Arts , seminar, Wien, Austria1999 Kingston Universi ty , UK2000 Urban design workshop, Eco le d’ Archi tecture de Nancy, France2000 Summer s chool of Archi tecture, Un iversi ty of Skopje , Kriva Pal anka, Macedonia2004 Sri sht i Academy Schoo l of Art ,

Design and technology, Bangalore, Ind ia2005 In ternat ional Archi t ecture Seminar, Universi ty of Skopje, Macedonia2005 Ed inburgh Coll ege of art2002- Design Tutor , School of Archi tec ture, UTH, Greece

WORKS IN MUSEUMS

The Erich tonian Museum of t heAcropol is , Athens, Greece (drawingsand model s)«Urban Rooms», urban spaces for t heart s , Ljubl jana, Slovenia (drawings andmodels)have been acqui red fo r the permanentcol lect ion by the Georges PompidouCen tre, Paris , France , 1999 .

WORKS IN PRIVATECOLLECTIONS

House and s tudio , Tamarind, Cos ta Rica(pl ans and models) have been acqu iredfor the p rivate col lect ion of G.Papadimit rios , Greece , 2000House and s tudio for the ar t is t Y iannisKounel l is , Toscana , Italy (plans)Eternal House (pl ans) have beenacquired for the private co l lect i on ofL. Bel ts ios , Greece, 2003

ACTIVITIES1981 Exh ibi t ion curat ion ‘Maquet tes d’ Archi tecture’, ‘Centre d’ Art Con temporain’,Geneva, Switzerland1983 Member of the DESTE foundat ion commit tee , the purpose of which was to promote on the occas ion of ‘Athens,Cu ltural Capi t al of Europe’1985 Exh ibi t ion, ins tal lat ion and

des ign fo r 40 Greek a rt is ts in “Eleutheri as’ Park”, Athens1985 Ins tal lat ion des ign fo r the art is t Nik i Kanagini , Athens Gal l ery,1990 Co-curato r with G.Symeophor idis exhibi t i ng the work of archi tect Panos Kou lermos , ‘Spi t i t is Kyprou’, Athens , Greece1990 Member of the Board o fDirectors , Na t ional Gal le ry of Athens1991 Curat t ing with G. Symeophor idis the TEFCHOS Reviewarchi tectural conference at the ‘Centre d’ art Contemporain de Grenoble’,France1992 Par t icipant in the In ternat ional

Symposium on Utopia i n Rhodos, Greece1992 Ju ry Panel member for the Piranezi Award commit tee , Piran, Slovenia1994- pro ject for and promotion o f ‘TEMENOS’ , Gregory Markopou los’ and Robert Beavers’ fi lm museum i n Arcadia, Greece1994 Founding member of t he Hel lenic Archi tectural Inst i tute (H.I.A.)1997 Curator of the “Contemporary Slovenian Arch i tectu re” exhibi t i on, as a member of H.I.A.1997 Curator of the “Contemporary Austrian Archi tecture” exh ibi t ion, as a member of H.I.A.1997 Assigned member of t he jury for the 2 n d Biennale of Young Greek Archi tec ts , Athens, Greece2003 Summit : ‘The Timing ofTransact ion’, pa rt icipat ion in a symposium organized by Dr. Clementine Del iss of Metronome Review, Art Center Of San Sebast i an, Spain.2004. Summit : three weeks as special researcher into the possib i l i t ies of space as an aspec t of t he t r ansfer of knowledge in t erms o f geo-pol i t ical , socia l and an thropo logica l evaluat ion as ef fort t o deve lop a “Future Academy”, organized by Dr. Cl ementine Del iss , sponsored by Sri sht i Academy Schoo l of Art , Design and Technology with the pa rt icipat ion of several in ternat ional ins t i tui t ions. At Bangalore, Ind ia.2005. Tutorials and l ecture on “Future

Academy” as par t of a symposiumorganized by the EdinburghCol lege o f Art .