All the submitted entries were presented to the public and discussed by SARCHA associates, invited guests and competition participants in the context of the London Festival of Architecture on June 28th in a two-hour event at The Westminster Forum in Central London.
Invited guests: Nicholas Boyarsky, Teresa Stoppani, Julia Chryssostalis, Brian Hatton, Nikolaos Matziounis, John Andrews, Mark Smith, Tak Hoshino.
Invited guests: Nicholas Boyarsky, Teresa Stoppani, Julia Chryssostalis, Brian Hatton, Nikolaos Matziounis, John Andrews, Mark Smith, Tak Hoshino.
Short bio of guests:
Julia Chryssostalis, Principal Lecturer, School of Law and Co-director, Westminster Law and Theory Centre. She studied law at the University of Thessaloniki and political theory and discourse analysis at the University of Essex and practised law briefly in Athens. She has held visiting fellowships at the European University Institute, Princeton University, and the University of Cape Town. She has written on the legal architectographies of Athens and on spatial understandings of law in the work of Carl Shmitt and Hanah Arendt. She is currently working on a reading of the city through the legal archive.
Nicholas Boyarsky, a principal of London's Boyarsky Murphy Architects who has lectured and taught at many European, North American and Far Eastern schools of architecture and symposia. He has been a Visiting Professor in the US, at Cornell, RISD and NJIT, and at Bergen Architecture School in Norway. Nicholas is a founding member of the Urban Flashes network.
Teresa Stoppani (MArch IUAV Venice, PhD Arch&UD Florence) is an architectural theorist and critic. She is currently the head of the Leeds School of Architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research interests are the relationship between architecture theory and the design process in the urban environment, and the influence on the specifically architectural of other spatial and critical practices.
John Andrews AA Dipl (hons) prize. Professor RMIT 1990-2001, Director and Trustee AA 2007-2013.Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture & Masters in Architecture and Urban Design Brighton University. Continuing to draw, exhibit, publish, lecture and travel.
Nikolaos Matziounis, Civil Engineer, MSc in Environmental Design of Infrastructure Works, chartered by FEANI, former Director of Estates and Maintenance Department of the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece
Brian Hatton is an architecture historian. A CCA Mellon Senior Fellow (2009), he has taught history and theory of architecture at Liverpool John Moores University, the Architectural Association in London, and the University of Greenwich. A critic for many art and architecture journals, he has written studies of Dan Graham, Cedric Price, Zaha Hadid, Langlands & Bell, among others. He was a collaborator with and writer on the NATo group in the mid‐80s.
Tak Hoshino architect, senior lecturer at the University of East London, School of architecture and Visual Arts. Tak was educated at the AA and the Waseda University in Japan and collaborated with Raoul Bunschoten on Chora institute of architecture and urbanism. He is heavily involved in East London collective architecture initiatives.
Mark Smith is a Design Fellow at the Cambridge School of Architecture
Maria Theodorou, Ph.D (AA) DiplArch (AUTH) GradDipRes (La Sapienza), fulbright visiting fellow (School of Architecture Princeton 2005). Founding member and director of SARCHA (School of ARCHitecture for All) since 2006. Has published and lectured widely; her research focuses on architecture and the political.
Strategic Partner in London: Westminster Law and Theory Centre
Click to listen to the audio files from the London event:
Part1
Click to listen to the audio files from the London event:
Part1
Welcome address by Dr. Julia
Chryssostalis, co-director of The Westminster Law and Theory Center (SARCHA’s
strategic partner in London)
Introduction to the topics of the
discussion and brief presentation of the 15 submissions by Dr. Maria Theodorou,
director of SARCHA
(00:01:22) Introduction to the topic
of the Competition
(00:06:20) Presentation of Kotzia
square
(00:09:48) Is there a possibility to
assemble a city in common?
(00:10:19) Overview of the 15
submissions
(00:10:31) Overview of topics of
discussion:
The old structures
· Public/Private: strategies and
tactics
· Public / Private: architecture and
participation
Emerging Layers
· Urban justice – austerity and rights
· The commons
Culture
revisited
· Art and culture as a site of
resistance
Materiality
· City materials, -City Matter, - City
Matters
City Sur-real
The next step forward
Part2DemosbySarcha 2013 Part 2/5 from SARCHA on Vimeo.
The old structures
(00:00) Submission: “Silence” by Lary Cool
(01:03) Submission: “ Tactical Kotzia” by Anh Dung Ta
(01:59) Submission: “ Public Flows” by D. Gkiola, A. Kaouri, K. Giokari
(02:26) Submission: “ Kotzia Square a new public play-garden for Athens Town Hall” by Chr. Matika, M. Paravoliasis
(02:36) Submission: “Interweaving layers” by Vasia Angeli
Emerging Layers
(03:32) Submission: “Intensified, layered 'court' scenario for Kotzia square, Athens” by Friedrich Gräfling indechs.org (online archive)
(03:46) Submission: “The thickness of commons” by C. Lippa, F. Micocci, L. Scarpetti (Near Architecture)
(03:32) Submission: “Intensified, layered 'court' scenario for Kotzia square, Athens” by Friedrich Gräfling indechs.org (online archive)
(03:46) Submission: “The thickness of commons” by C. Lippa, F. Micocci, L. Scarpetti (Near Architecture)
Culture revisited
(04:39) Submission: “Brainstorm + Perform @Athens Town Hall” by George Sachinis, UrbanDig Project
(04:57) Submission: “Open - Projected Theater” by Irini-Aimilia Ioannidou, Eleftherios Ambatzis
(07:08) Submission: “An alternative way to protest” by Petros Stoumpos
(04:39) Submission: “Brainstorm + Perform @Athens Town Hall” by George Sachinis, UrbanDig Project
(04:57) Submission: “Open - Projected Theater” by Irini-Aimilia Ioannidou, Eleftherios Ambatzis
(07:08) Submission: “An alternative way to protest” by Petros Stoumpos
Materiality
(07:09) Submission: “The wall of choices” by Nanchen Jiang
(10:20) Submission: “Gymnpcrashy: marx+whores+champaigne+pools 4All [Love your City Hole]” by Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos
(10:57) Submission: “Stair-eographing Kotzia Square” by L. Varelidi, Stella Papazoglou
(07:09) Submission: “The wall of choices” by Nanchen Jiang
(10:20) Submission: “Gymnpcrashy: marx+whores+champaigne+pools 4All [Love your City Hole]” by Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos
(10:57) Submission: “Stair-eographing Kotzia Square” by L. Varelidi, Stella Papazoglou
(11:10) Submission: “Democracy Cage” by Vanda
Chalyvopoulou, Andreas Kargsten
City Sur-real
(12:01) Submission: “Kotzia Square” by Point Supreme
(13:01) The Next Step Forward
(12:01) Submission: “Kotzia Square” by Point Supreme
(13:01) The Next Step Forward
14:30 – 41:12
Part 3
DemosbySarcha 2013 Part 3/5 from SARCHA on Vimeo.
Invited guests discussing the 15 submissions and exchanging ideas on the different topics
(00:00) Submission: “Silence” by Lary Cool
(01:40)
Submission: “ Tactical Kotzia” by Anh Dung Ta
(14:35)
Submission: “ Public Flows” by D. Gkiola, A. Kaouri, K. Giokari
(15:42) Submission: “ Kotzia Square a new public
play-garden for Athens Town Hall” by
Chr. Matika, M. Paravoliasis
Part 4
DemosbySarcha 2013 Part 4/5 from SARCHA on Vimeo.
(00:00) Submission: “Interweaving layers” by Vasia Angeli
(06:20) Submission: “Intensified, layered 'court' scenario for Kotzia square, Athens” by Friedrich Gräfling indechs.org (online archive)
(13:44) Submission: “The thickness of commons” by C. Lippa, F. Micocci, L. Scarpetti (Near Architecture)(17:45) Submission: “Brainstorm + Perform @Athens Town Hall” by George Sachinis, UrbanDig Project
(20:45) Submission: “Open - Projected Theater” by Irini-Aimilia Ioannidou, Eleftherios Ambatzis
Part 5
DemosbySarcha 2013 Part 5/5 from SARCHA on Vimeo.
(00:00) Submission: “An alternative way to protest” by Petros Stoumpos
(01:36) Submission: “The wall of choices” by Nanchen Jiang
(06:42) Submission: “Gymnpcrashy: marx+whores+champaigne+pools 4All [Love your City Hole]” by Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos
(10:28) “Stair-eographing Kotzia Square” by L. Varelidi, Stella Papazoglou
(13:50) Submission: “Democracy Cage” by Vanda Chalyvopoulou, Andreas Kargsten
(15:02) Submission: “Kotzia Square” by Point Supreme
23:20
– 24:51 Guests’ thoughts on the next step
