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This video was made for MANE at CSM during the academic year 2015-2016. This metaphysical projection experience is based on and fueled by Sarah-Jane Norman’s performance “Stone tape theory” that considers haunted places as places fulfilled with memories. After our first visiting to the eerie, empty and haunted Bemerton garage, we revisited the place as other ghostbusters to reinvent its memories and get inspired, on the grounds of the fact that no space is neutral - every space, as every human being, has its own memories. In order to familiarize with the space, we projected pictures of us with family and friends - happy moments. In this way, we tried to embody memories to its walls and create emotional links. After that we projected moving images related to physics (and metaphysics) in order to “prepare” the space for the clients (Institute Of Physics). Finally, we projected materials, patterns, textiles, colors, fabrics and several cozy spaces in order to spark our imagination and get inspired! We closed this video with a promise we gave: to design freely and break every wall that preserves people from communicating!

The song played in the video is La Femme’s "Nous Etions Deux".

#bemerton #metaphysics #mapping projection #narrative environments #central saint martins

It’s a video documentation of the talk (that took place at ROMANTSO the 22h of December 2015) between Simon Banos, the curator of DeCorbuziers* exhibition, and Panagiotis Tournikiotis, professor at NTUA and the founder of the series of events “Ελ/Le Corbusier” (part of which was this exhibition). Some fragments of “mes compliments/the mourning song” performance that took place at the opening event are also included. The curator and Mr Tournikiotis weaved their narratives in parallel describing the development of their relationship with Corbu throughout their architectural studies and careers. Although an artwork may contains myriad of meanings and signifiers, this is Simon’s interpretation of them, while he chose to raise the volume of each artwork’s certain voices, in order to emphasize his “memoirs of an architect” narrative.

*DeCorbuziers was an alternative pop, neo-goth «memorial» inviting young architects, creative offices, artists and students of art and architecture worldwide to praise, disparage, decompose and criticise the big master through mixed media installations, social media based artworks, performances, and discussions. The "LC-Case" was being opened by the millennium generation with creative and playful attitude. The great master was resurrected via the artworks under new identities, calling for new believers and opening the road for new messiahs.

Curator: Simon Banos Design: Vassiliki-Maria Plavou Organisation: Demetra Vogiatzaki Artists’ Coordination: Maroula Bacharidou Modernism Memorial Competition Coordination: archstudies.gr Organization/Opening Coordination: Natalia Vlacholopoulou Interactive Lighting Application: Christos Katsanos Exhibition Realization: Natalia Vlacholopoulou, Artemis Papadopoulou Communication: Thanassis Benos-Palmer

https://www.facebook.com/decorbuziers/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Duration of the exhibition: 20-27 December 2015 Place: ROMANTSO, Anaxagora 3-5, Omonoia, Athens, Greece

The songs played in the video are Britney Spears’ “Baby one more time”, The Knife’s “Kino” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls just wanna have fun”.

Who am I? The only thing I think I know is that I am a first year postgraduate student at Central Saint Martins. I attend with excitement the MA course Narrative Environments, receiving merit awards including Vice Chancellor Scholarship and the MANE Bursary. During my long and super creative journey in National Technical University of Athens, where I mostly studied architecture, I had the chance to experiment with several means of expression and aesthetic approaches in order to express different ideas and find my individual signature. Nevertheless, I finally found that I can play several roles redefining every time my architectural ID! #architectsjustwannahavefun Through several projects I observed the relationship between the interior and the exterior space, investigating alternative ways in which information can be delivered from one space to another. By combining architecture with web art and pop culture as well as by putting motion into architecture drawings, I try to create small fairy-tails, open new horizons and tell different stories.

Beyond the academic walls, I had the opportunity to work with web designers, fashion photographers and artists, in response to my keen interest in a variety of design areas including fashion, textiles, interior design and photography.

Currently I am curating an exhibition named “DeCorbuziers”, an alternative pop, neo-goth «memorial» for Le Corbusier, organized by the millennium generation with the support of NTUA and Fondation Le Corbusier. With playful attitude, we invite young architects and artists to praise, disparage, decompose and criticize the big master through mixed media installations, social media based artworks and performances.

For further info my CV in .pdf here

#alice in wonderland #simon says #simon who #semiology #play with words #slavoj zizek #jacques derrida

Lost in Google Translation: the Heterotopia within which we meet

This video was made for MANE at CSM during the academic year 2015-2016. Albert Camus said “The only way to get to know someone is through the affect that his/her actions have on you”. This video is actually a meta-language describing the whole process of my meeting with Chang, with the theoretical support of Wittgenstein concerning linguistic issues. It's my effort to approach her through the very core of my discipline (and my whole creativity), the space. The additional mediator in order to achieve that was Google translator which is inadequate and misleading. In this way I surrended in this way to the given fact that some things are meant to be lost in translation. The song played in the video is Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop", played instrumental.

The complementary booklet presenting the background process of creating Lost in Google Translation is here

#lostintranslation #lostingoogletranslation #miley cyrus #michel foucault #heterotopias #utopia #we can't stop #csm #central saint martins #narrative environments #cinema4d #googletranslation

manifesto

the society Architecture is deeply social as an act. Our responsibility towards the community is grave. We should not stand aloof. We should have in mind for whom we build.

the city Architecture derives from the city. Cities need us : we must stand critical towards them. We should stop designing and consuming the space greedily. We must set new rules. Alteration, evolution, scalability.

the tradition Architecture is site-specific. Locus : this magic word seems to be suffocating crammed between the “international archetypes”. We should not be afraid of demolishing in order to rebuild. We should not be afraid of the void.

the built and unbuilt Nature is not the built environment's negative space. The dipole built – unbuilt is the quintessence of architecture. We ought to design with wisdom.

#manifesto #aforarchitecture #whatisarchitecture?#socialarchitecture #society #community #city #alteration #evolution #scalability #tradition #locus #builtandunbuilt #nature #wisdom #miley cyrus #wrecking ball #fuckyeahbrutalism

the ark: afghanistan rural kunsthouse (architectural competition in bamiyan) Collaborators: Virna Koutla, Ioanna Boudouva 2014-2015

We consider Bamiyan’s cultural center to be a symbolic expression of Afghanistan’s new era. The center will act as the cornerstone of the new life, emphasizing on its role as an educational center of the community. This approach is grounded on the unforced integration between people’s practices and philosophy and center’s function. The morphology of the Buddha cliff is integrated in the synthetical process leading us to a more sculptural approach. In the heart of the synthesis, we create a dynamic open space that aims to develop a sense of public discourse and collegiality by engaging everyday practices with cross-cultural events during the year. The construction is mainly built with the use of local materials such as colored sand, masonry and stone.

#theark #bamiyan #architectural competition #kunsthouse #kunsthalle

brutal love: photo series, preveza, 2012

“As Adorno says, we will not let nature express itself, we will not let it speak with its own voice because it would mean our death, finally. And so we jump from Adorno to Benjamin, because when he says that the writer derives his authority from death he’s talking about the death of nature, the death of the natural world which permits the writer to exist. We’re destined to farce and irony and it’s the best solution we have at hand.” Carlos Fuentes

#brutalism #fuckyeahbrutalism #urbanism #loveconcrete #concrete #adorno #walter benjamin #carlos fuentes #preveza #docks

«Fishing on Concrete» - an Augmented Fish Market at Preveza Diploma Project, School of Architecture NTUA Symeon Banos - Demetra Vogiatzaki March 2013 [in Greek]

#issuu #agora² #preveza #loveconcrete #concrete #brutalism #fuckyeahbrutalism #architecture #final project #docks #sardela #papalina

agora²: fishing in the concrete (an extended fish-market in preveza) Collaborator: Demetra Vogiatzaki Tutor: Sofia Tsiraki 2012-2013

Our architectural approach was a blend of functionalism and symbolism: the deduction of regionalism, the antithesis of formal analogies to docks, the notion of a tower and its meta-language, the elegy of human need, are some of the most prominent elements. Our composition is a tripartite diagram which has the fish market at its core, framed by a small museum and a small research center which focuses on the Ambracian gulf and fishing. On one hand: stocky, brutal docks and on the other hand: delicate and slender, metal structures.

an extended version of agora² here

publications: greekarchitects archisearch archstudies

#agora² #preveza #loveconcrete #concrete #beton #brutalism #aliki vougiouklaki #dimitris papamichail #architecture #final project #docks #ali paşa #kostas kariotakis #hipster #hipsterism #sardela #papalina

fifty shades of white: interior design, flat on 60 voulgaroktonou str, exarchia, athens, 2011

“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” Junichiro Tanizaki * the pictures were taken by a zorki 4 camera Copyright © 2011 Symeon Banos, All Rights Reserved

#interior design #50 sades #junichiro tanizaki #in praise of shadows #zorki 4k

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