Todd Lowery is an american artist and academic that has established a close relationship with Athens. Travelling every year between Greece and the States, he recollects the many things he experienced in Athens to reassemble in his work. The process of reassembling happens simultaneously through the overlapping of many layers of his memory in his … Continue reading
Alexandros Maganiotis is an artist trapped into the body of an architect. Living in Athens, he is been inspired by the city from the realization of some works, like Postcards for Athens and A Disturbance of Memory, but mostly Athens influenced the technique that he uses in in works. Athens, as a juxtaposition of fragments from … Continue reading
Ianna Andreadis is a Greek artist living in Paris. Few years ago she started on Facebook a collective project called ΑΘΗΝΑ ΘΕΑ with an open call to shot a picture of Athens from a window. This project builds a collective image of the city starting from many different individual points of view. I started a conversation with Ianna three years ago and I have followed … Continue reading
Secrets and Crises by Zoe Hatziyannaki is a portrait on the palaces of powers, these institutional buildings in Athens what the power is hold. Her work aims to explore the hidden movements behind the institutional facade opposing two representation methods. The geometry of the orthographic composition of the elevation of the building shows an apparent clearness and stability, something that … Continue reading
Text by Eleanna Horiti Exploring the necessity and utility of creating and developing sets of ‘peripheral’ structures and facilities intended to be used as urban tools, in order to target urban issues that have arisen or have become accentuated as a result of political and social processes. The existence of parallel realities within cityscapes and … Continue reading
Representative powers are often disjointed from public participation and daily city life. Such urban incoherence raises questions about the actual state of democracy and the effective future performances of governmental institutions. The detachment between citizenship and its representative projection presents itself as clear as a paradigm in the case of Athens Town Hall. The 19th … Continue reading
Text by Elina Drossou Omonia Square, the oldest (dated in 1849) square and one of the most prominent reference points in the city, has historically gone through a series of restorations and transformations and, for decades, used to spurt liveliness, colours, smells, music and fun. However, all the signs of its glorious past, such as flowers, … Continue reading
The open courtyard is a common space inside social housing complexes built in Athens between the 60s and 70s and following principles of the Modernism. This space is usually defined by three or four storeys buildings disposed in a squared shape. Although these complexes are not very diffuse, there are many in various neighborhoods of … Continue reading
The stoa, that finds its precedents in the one named to Attalo, a commercial space in Ancient Greece, is a covered commercial gallery that crosses many buildings of a block. There are 170 galleries in the City Center of Athens, and while the biggest ones are still in use, many have been abandoned since before … Continue reading
CitiesInVisible is an e-book about Athens by the photographer Anargyros Drolapas that follows the path traced by Italo Calvino with the book Invisible Cities. A first edition of CitiesInVisible was presented in 2014 at the Visitors Center at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center as part of the Summer Workshop Critical organised by Petros Babasikas and Yorgos Prinos for the Depression Era … Continue reading
The Athens Project 