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THE FIRST BUILDINGS
Press Release
GREAT – Greek Architectural Talent
A new institution for promoting Greek architectural creativity by the Athens Concert Hall Organization and AGET GCCo - Lafarge
GREAT 2013 – THEIR FIRST BUILDINGS
Athens, November 20, 2012 – The Athens Concert Hall and HERACLES GCCo, member of Lafarge Group, announced today their partnership for the organization of GREAT – Greek Architectural Talent, a new institution aiming at promoting and highlighting Greek architectural creativity. The initiative was announced by Mr. Ioannis Manos, President of the Athens Concert Hall Organization, Mr. Manolis Chris Kyprianides, Chairman of the Board of Heracles GCCo, Mr. Pierre Deleplanque, CEO of Lafarge Greece, and Mr. Memos Filippidis, architect and curator of GREAT 2013.
This initiative further extends the dialogue developed among the architectural community and the two organizations: the Athens Concert Hall, through its Megaron Plus program, and Lafarge Group, through its partnerships for finding solutions that respond to modern constructions challenges and serve the architectural vision. GREAT focuses on the Greek architectural talent and the innovation that springs from it and attempts to enhance its appeal to the international architectural scene.
As part of this partnership, architectural organizations will take place every two years, with the first one, GREAT 2013 – “Their First Buildings”, concerns an architectural competition for undergraduate and postgraduate theses. The selected theses will be selected by an international jury and will be exhibited in Athens Concert Hall in 2013
GREAT 2013 – THEIR FIRST BUILDINGS
The first initiative GREAT 2013, under the theme “Their First Buildings”, is a contest for undergraduate and postgraduate theses prepared by students of Greek Schools of Architecture and Greek students attending schools abroad. The participants are invited to submit their first comprehensive efforts for designing works capable of shaping the
form of the cities and the environment of the future. The theses must be drafted during the period of 2008-2012. The competition begins on Tuesday, November 20, 2012. The submission of participations takes place online through www.great2013.com, until February 1, 2013.
An international jury consisting of Nikos Ktenàs, Manuel Aires Mateus, José Selgas and Lucia Cano – architects who have different approaches in their field, thus securing the necessary pluralism, as well as a synoptic representation of the most significant modern trends in architecture – will be responsible for selecting the best theses, which will be exhibited in the form of models, in the Athens Concert Hall, in May 2013. Architect Memos Filippidis is the curator of the exhibition and the coordinator of GREAT 2013.
The theme of the first organization, Their First Buildings, “focuses on the talent and the creativity of young architects before and outside the limitations dictated by the assignments they will be usually undertaking after their studies”, notes Memos Filippidis, architect and curator of the exhibition. “This organization brings forth their tendency to overcome these conventionalities and to try – within the environment of their schools – to design larger scale projects, which are themes that might by their hidden desires, and projects in which they would like to get specialized and which they are expecting to implement in the long-run”, he adds.
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Nikos Ktenàs
Jury GREAT 2013
Nikos Ktenàs, was born in Piraeus
in1960. From 1978 to 1983 after
studying Mathematics, Physics,
Music Theory and introductory
courses in Architecture at various
schools in the United States,
amongst them Columbia University,
and The Cooper Union, he obtains his professional degree in Architecture from Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York.
From 1984 to 1992 he taught at EPFL_École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland in the chair Luigi Snozzi. He establishes his architectural practice in
Lugano, Switzerland, in 1987 and in Athens, Greece, in 1993. From 1992 to today, he
has been invited at various Greek and European architecture faculties and from 2005
he is a guest professor of Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio,
Switzerland, while from 2009 he is a guest professor in the Graduate Program of
Architectural Design, in the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly in
the city of Volos.
He has conducted various architecture workshops in Europe, such as,
‘Lid’A2’_Università degli Studi Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, The Polytechnic of
Crete, Department of Architecture, ‘SE de Projet intensif ÉNSA-V’_École Nationale
Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, ‘SIA’_DA/Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa,
etc. Has given public lectures in various European faculties amongst them, Palermo,
Reggio Calabria, Vico Morcote, Paris, Versailles, Athens, Patras, Chania – Crete,
Thessaloniki, Lisboα, Sevilla, Ischia – Napoli, etc. He is author of over 80 works and his
work has been exhibited in the ‘NAI’ (Netherlands Institute of Architecture), Rotterdam,
in the ‘Archivio Cesare Cattaneo’, Cernobio – Como, in the “Pavillon de l’Arsenal”
Paris, while he has been an invited
participant in the ‘7th Biennale of
Architecture’ in Venice. Has received
numerous prizes and recognitions on a
national and international level, last being
the ‘Special Distinction’ for three built works
from the ‘EIA’_Hellenic Institute of
Architecture in the ‘2008 Architectural
Awards’.
In 2006 the review Architecture in Greece
dedicated a monograph issue on his work
and the same year a theoretical discourse
on the architectural thoughts and pedagogical principles of Nikos Ktenàs, ‘Semplice /
Complesso’, was published in Italian by +XM - iiriti editore. More Information: www.nikosktenas.com
Manuel Aires Mateus
Jury GREAT 2013
Manuel Aires Mateus born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1963. Graduates as an architect in F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1986. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Francisco Aires Mateus since 1988. Teacher in Graduate School of Design,Harvard University, USA, in 2002 and 2005. Invited teacher in Fakulteta za Arhitekturo,Universa v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2003/2004.
Teacher in Accademia di Architectura,Mendrízio, Switzerland, since 2001. Professor in Universidade Autónoma,Lisbon, since 1998. Professor in Universidade Lusíada,Lisbon, since 1997. Invited for several seminars and conferences in: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.
More Information: www.airesmateus.com
José Selgas – Lucia Cano
Jury GREAT 2013
José Selgas (1965) graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Madrid, and in 1993 founded Selgas‐Cano with Lucia Cano. In 1994‐ 1995, he worked with Francesco Venezia in Naples. In 1997‐1998, he was awarded a grant to study at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Lucia Cano (1965) graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Madrid. Between 1992 and 1996, she worked with Julio Cano Lasso, and from 1997 to 2003, she was a partner in the studio Cano Lasso.
Selgascano works in Madrid. It is a small atelier and its intention is to remain so. They have never taught at any university and they tend not to give lectures in order to avoid focusing intensely on projects. They centre their work on the construction process investigation, treating it as a continuous listening to the largest possible number of elements involved on it from manufacture to installation.
They have exhibited at the MοMA in NY, the Guggenheim in NY, the Venice Biennale, the GA Gallery in Tokyo, The MOT (Contemporany art museum of Tokyo) and the Design Museum of London.
More information: www.selgascano.net
Jos Memos Filippidis
Curator GREAT 2013
Memos Filippidis (1967, Athens) is an architect, co‐founder of the office MPLUSM together with architect Marita Nikoloutsou in 2001. Their work distills international influences while investigating the individual character of each project and its anchoring to local sensitivities.
Memos Filippidis has been contributing articles on architecture and design for the Greek newspaper To Vima, was member of the editorial board of the Vima Ideon an interdisciplinary journal of literature, the humanities, social studies, architecture and cultural theory and has been curating architectural exhibitions.
Co‐organizer of the architectural lectures of the cultural initiative entitled “Megaron Plus” at the Athens Megaron, a series that has already included lectures by Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, Roman Delugan, Massimiliano Fuksas, Wolf Prix, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, Alberto Campo Baeza, Kengo Kuma, Bernard Tschumi, Thom Mayne, Mathias Klotz, Steven Holl, Carme Pigem, Neil Denari, Gwenael Nicolas, Rudy Riccioti and David Adjaye. Curator of the international architectural exhibition “Big Brother: Architecture and Surveillance” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2002). Curator of the architectural exhibition “+‐40: Athens Now” (2003) on the work of 22 leading Greek architects, an exhibition held at RIBA, London. Curator of the architectural exhibition “Invisible Hotel” (Athens, Salonica, New York, 2005‐2006). Curator for exhibition "The Education of an Architect" (2006, Gallery Kappatos, Athens). In 2006 he was the guest curator, invited by chief curators Rena Sakellaridou and Morfo Papanikolaou, for the first national participation of Cyprus entitled “Porous Borders” (www.porousborders.org) for the 10th Architectural Biennale in Venice.
