ktiriothiki is a non-existent word that was created to describe a project related to the architectural heritage of Athens, Greece. It comes from the Greek words “κτήριο” (ktirio=building) and “θήκη” (théke=case) and it means a repository of buildings, a place were building information is stored, similarly to e.g. a bookcase.[…]
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Pikionis: Filopappou-Acropolis
when the poetry of photography meets poetic architecture… How Hélène Binet’s photographs changed the way we look at architecture Πικιώνης: Φιλοπάππου-Ακρόπολη όταν η ποίηση της φωτογραφίας συναντά την ποιητική αρχιτεκτονική… Photo by Hélène Binet from Architectural Record ΙΙΙ.2019 “An image for me should never be[…]
David P. Billington on Swiss Engineers
David Billington was a renown academic who coined the term “structural art”. A prominent scholar of Princeton University, a structural engineer and educator who taught generations after generations of engineers and transfused his passion for structures to students from 1958, when he joined Princeton as faculty, until his death, in[…]
Philippe Block: Reimagining Shell Structures
Professor Dr. Philippe Block leads the Block Research Group in ETH-Zurich. Philippe Block’s and BRG’s inspiring and innovative research draws its lessons from the study of long-forgotten engineering and architectural achievements, the art of masonry shell structures, and transcribes these lessons to a contemporary context, aiming to open new and[…]
Kunstmuseum Basel, a feast of archi…texture!
In the LinkedIn archipelago of corporate information, we seldom see any articles about the actual design or the details of projects that impact our living environment. This is quite strange considering that our lives, professional and personal, are intrinsically connected to the built environment in multiple ways, either whether we[…]
Heritage-led regeneration – a Greek midsummer’s night dream…
Roughly this time four years ago, I published a paper that was the combination of two of my passions; heritage architecture and information technology. Experimenting with various augmented reality (AR) platforms, I thought of combining the findings of a real-life problem I encountered, while trying to obtain planning approval for the retrofitting[…]