From the desire of the city to the city of desire: A vision for Athens
How does desire function as the driving force for the production of the city? Since the production of the city and its capacities affect each other in a reciprocal way, […]
All people
Becoming inhabitants: construction as performative practice
Instead of using architecture to represent certain political values, like transparency or inclusiveness, I am interested in how the process of making architecture together can give people more agency over […]
Frozen Music Form
A metaphysical approach looking into the quote “I call architecture frozen music” by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Growing Architecture
The biggest force on earth is nature. She has been creating circular architecture for centuries, yet we can’t overcome our linear process that involves waste and non-renewable resources. Let’s change […]
Gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk: the synthesis of art, design and architecture, has always triggered my attention. These kind of artworks (or buildings) are like tiny universes where everything fits together on every scale […]
Bouncing Forward: Urban redefinition for a disaster-struck city.
The professions of architecture and urbanism are still developing proper interpretations that deal with the relationship between the city and destruction. When the dust is settled, and a period of […]
Architecture and death
I distinguish three main components that define the role of death in our society. On the smallest scale there are the rituals. These are all the habits surrounding death, for […]
Norms and Bodies: Exploring the Architectural Body
Bodies and their surroundings are continuously changing and inseparably intertwined, making it impossible to explore the two independently. This means that our bodies do not simply end at our skin, […]
Unbias intervention policies on former detached-wards psychiatric hospitals
The great reformation of the mental healthcare system in Europe left behind a great number of architectural relics. Being built straddling between the XIX and the XX century in the […]
Stage Conflict
Stage Conflict aims to explore architecture related to multi-focal conflict between the individual and the collective. Instead of avoiding conflict, this thesis acknowledge its inevitable existence and seeks an architecture […]