Manolis Anastasakis
Manolis Anastasakis is an architect D.E.S.A. (1984) (scholarship from the Athens Academy of Science). He was awarded a post-graduate D.E.A. (1985) from the EHESS in Paris France (scholarship from the Onassis Foundation). In 1990 he opened his own practice in Athens Greece.
He is Academic member at the Athens Technological Educational Institute (actually University of West Attica) since 1993. Since then, he has supervised more than 40 final year students’ papers.
He has designed many private and public projects; he has likewise written articles and had his works and projects publicized in specialized journals. His drawings and projects have been presented in Greek and European exhibitions. He has won many distinctions in international architectural competitions such as:
- Gold Prize, International Competition “2011 Public Design Competition”, Seoul, South Korea, 2011
- Honorable mention, International Competition “The Spiretec Competiton, India 2010”, 85.000 m2, New Delhi, India, 2011
- 1st prize for the International Competition «SUITE D'AUTORE - art design gallery hôtel», Palermo, Italy (2009)
- Selected by the Greek committee for the UIA competition (2003).
- Runner-up in the “Europan 4” competition (1997),
- 2nd prize in a competition to design an ecological house in Greece (1999),
Member of the jury for the American awards (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design) 2008 “The American Architecture Awards”.
He is the author of a book entitled: Redesigning Libraries for Schools. A proposal for secondary education (2003). He is publisher and editor in chief of the greek architectural magazine “grad review”.
He is the editor of the book: Athens 200 years 200 buildings.
He is a member of the Greek Institute of Architects and of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
URL: www.anastasakis.gr, http://www.maad-team.blogspot.gr/
Email : [email protected], [email protected]
He is Academic member at the Athens Technological Educational Institute (actually University of West Attica) since 1993. Since then, he has supervised more than 40 final year students’ papers.
He has designed many private and public projects; he has likewise written articles and had his works and projects publicized in specialized journals. His drawings and projects have been presented in Greek and European exhibitions. He has won many distinctions in international architectural competitions such as:
- Gold Prize, International Competition “2011 Public Design Competition”, Seoul, South Korea, 2011
- Honorable mention, International Competition “The Spiretec Competiton, India 2010”, 85.000 m2, New Delhi, India, 2011
- 1st prize for the International Competition «SUITE D'AUTORE - art design gallery hôtel», Palermo, Italy (2009)
- Selected by the Greek committee for the UIA competition (2003).
- Runner-up in the “Europan 4” competition (1997),
- 2nd prize in a competition to design an ecological house in Greece (1999),
Member of the jury for the American awards (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design) 2008 “The American Architecture Awards”.
He is the author of a book entitled: Redesigning Libraries for Schools. A proposal for secondary education (2003). He is publisher and editor in chief of the greek architectural magazine “grad review”.
He is the editor of the book: Athens 200 years 200 buildings.
He is a member of the Greek Institute of Architects and of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
URL: www.anastasakis.gr, http://www.maad-team.blogspot.gr/
Email : [email protected], [email protected]
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Athens 200 years 200 buildings / Peter Eisenman, the symbolism in architecture
1 INTRODUCTION - This paper traces the origins of our proposal and explains its direction as urban design based on the merging of artificial and natural elements. Our arguments are developed in the context of concerns about the new relationship between the artificial and natural that is caused by extensive urbanisation and urban sprawl. They relies on transcending the distinction between nature and culture and on the concept of a unified process that shapes the social and natural environment. The question we are raising is: how can an urban design be used to incorporate concerns about sustainable development, the idea of merging natural and urban space, the necessity of the times for dispersion, and the logic of a dynamic process? Recent design approaches venture to determine a closer relationship between the constructed and the natural world, either through an "organic" concept, or giving precedence to ecological concerns, or even revealing the land on which new structures are "accommodated". Our approach is not focused so much on new buildings or on the renewal of suburban or abandoned urban areas, but rather on the densest part of the urban landscape, and treats natural features as component "materials" on an equal basis with artificial ones. It restructures present-day barricaded and circumscribed enclaves of nature (parks, gardens, trees), placing the natural environment in the heart of the urban fabric in such a way that the subsoil (the buried physical substratum) is brought to the surface to claim an equal position in shaping the human environment. This approach goes beyond the traditional logic of treating natural features in cities as "second nature". It goes together with contemporary paradigms of planning, an example of which is presented here. Our proposal for the dynamic coexistence of nature and city, and for showing the land on which cities are built, is presented through a design direction which, having Athens as case study, can become a direction in which urban landscapes can evolve on the basis of synergy with natural elements.
Athens 200 years 200 buildings / Peter Eisenman, the symbolism in architecture
1 INTRODUCTION - This paper traces the origins of our proposal and explains its direction as urban design based on the merging of artificial and natural elements. Our arguments are developed in the context of concerns about the new relationship between the artificial and natural that is caused by extensive urbanisation and urban sprawl. They relies on transcending the distinction between nature and culture and on the concept of a unified process that shapes the social and natural environment. The question we are raising is: how can an urban design be used to incorporate concerns about sustainable development, the idea of merging natural and urban space, the necessity of the times for dispersion, and the logic of a dynamic process? Recent design approaches venture to determine a closer relationship between the constructed and the natural world, either through an "organic" concept, or giving precedence to ecological concerns, or even revealing the land on which new structures are "accommodated". Our approach is not focused so much on new buildings or on the renewal of suburban or abandoned urban areas, but rather on the densest part of the urban landscape, and treats natural features as component "materials" on an equal basis with artificial ones. It restructures present-day barricaded and circumscribed enclaves of nature (parks, gardens, trees), placing the natural environment in the heart of the urban fabric in such a way that the subsoil (the buried physical substratum) is brought to the surface to claim an equal position in shaping the human environment. This approach goes beyond the traditional logic of treating natural features in cities as "second nature". It goes together with contemporary paradigms of planning, an example of which is presented here. Our proposal for the dynamic coexistence of nature and city, and for showing the land on which cities are built, is presented through a design direction which, having Athens as case study, can become a direction in which urban landscapes can evolve on the basis of synergy with natural elements.