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Andreas Angelidakis

Andreas Angelidakis is an architect who likes mountains and clouds and websites as much as buildings and trees and people. He maintains an experimental practice in Athens, Greece, a studio involved in building, designing and speculating the contemporary ecosystem of screens and landscapes. Immediately after architecture school he worked as an intern at an Art Center in France, thereby starting a career at the intersection of two systems: Art and Architecture, Virtual and Real, Building and Nature, Ruin and Construction.

angelidakis.com

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Tom Holert

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Keller Easterling

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Irénée Scalbert, "Architect as Bricoleur." Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge No. 04 (07/2011), pp. 69-88.

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Undevelop

Workshop with Andreas Angelidakis 4 – 22 November 2013

Ever since the understanding of Architecture as an independent art form, it has been dependent on patron, clients and governments. Often times this architecture becomes an expression of the power, wealth and innovation that will represent the commissioning party. Over the centuries the way that this power and wealth is accumulated has organically developed into our current state of Financial Capitalism. Economy is psychology, worth is abstract, value depends on point of view. One of the way to be successful in this economy is simply to appear successful, that alone will be enough to drive the price of stocks up, and eventually make one successful for real. Naturally architecture followed on this path, and became an active tool in this mechanism. Buildings became images, innovative architectural design became a tool for speculating the market of urban development. This relationship between markets and buildings gave birth to a series of spatial products, replicated all over the world where development was to take place. Glass skyscrapers, "green" housing towers, shopping arcades and "crazy" titanium-clad contemporary art museums began appearing in cities where you would least expect them, and suddenly those cities were successful too. Developers hired young architects to produce designs that would become part of an invisible process of speculation and market manipulation, because architecture has the power of imagining the future so why not hire architects to imagine successful futures?

As the economy moves through what is thought to be the last stages of market capitalism, sometimes known as Crisis Capitalism, periods of development are exchanged with periods of crisis, where architects are momentarily not so useful. Could one of these moment be an opportunity for the architect to disengage from the dependency on the market? Could the relationship between architect and developer be reversed. Can the architect propose investment opportunities? Can the architect understand the city in a way that will be a profitable investment without depending on the vision of the developer?

In this 3 week workshop you are asked to analyze the area of the western downtown of Thessaloniki and propose possible modifications, subtractions and re-organizations that can exist outside the development loops of investment, commission and speculation. These proposals can be urban, structural or ephemeral, they can involve both material aspects (buildings, land, inhabitants, workforce) and immaterial (history, fantasy and reality).