Three Tree Buildings

Cute Marble Detail

I finished my Kamikaze deadline yesterday, so here's a cute building with a nice marble detail: the screws holding tha marble to the facade are kin of jighlighted and also they rusted a bit and there's some airconditioners too so its a nice example of how a modernist and maybe lightly brutalist building can look good today. Its in Thessaloniki, when I saw it I thought it looked like a building by Krandonellis, yet it's by Thomaidis.

A House made from stacked pieces of Land

This was my contribution for the Star Wars issue of the Hong Kong based concept book CREAM, which we got to know via our good friend Panos Tsagaris. Star Wars always makes me think of the desert, a kind of african landscape + Herzog's Fata Morgana and I was already having the idea to make somthing from the pieces of land leftover from the Invisible Home project. (I just re-read what I wrote, my syntax is way off today, I better stop bloggin and get back to work cos there is tons of stuff to do before tuesday)

Wrapping and Building

A slight fascination with wrapped buildings. I'm not really sure whats' interesting about them but I keep photographing them, but then again I photograph everything.

Virgin Suicides

While in Patras we visited the now defunct all-girls school Arsakeion. Even though the place has been out of use for only a few years, it seems ancient and the apparent recent renovation for "culture purposes" somehow makes the whole thing super beautiful and super spooky.

This coming September, a large contemporary art (and Architecture!) exhibition curated by Nadia Argyropoulou will take place in the school. More on this soon...

Some pics from the New Trends Exhibition

The students of U-Patras together with Yannis Aesopos did a fantastic job of setting up the exhibition. Here's some highlights during his presentation Minsuk Cho of MASS Studies showed this video of Towers in the Park ,
the amazing model of Taira Nishizawas' gymansium
JDS Architects Mermaid project
Enric Ruiz-Geli / Cloud 9 Villa Nurbs
Polaris Architects The Threatened City
R Sie(n) 's Hypnosis Chamber
and
the super active Veronica Valk form ZiZi-YoYo, Esthonia

Almost ready

New Trends is almost ready thanks to the hard work by the students of U-Patras who volunteered to set up the installation. The exhibition opens tonight, and tomorrow is an all-day symposium where all the participating architects will present their work, so its should be a super intereting day. Oh and here's some pics of the Cloud House model which took forever to look a bit sloopy but thats part of the deal. Also the presentation boards came out nice.

AGENDA: New Trends this Friday

The New Trends in European and Asian Architecture opens this Friday in Patras. The theme is AGENDA. On Saturday there is an all-day conferance.

Polygon Concrete

As usual I've been browsing past photos, and this time I went all the way back to 1995. I photographed these breakwave modules for Purple Prose and wrote a piece called Alt-PREFAB which I think was all about how concrete prefabrication can become a little psychedelic. Seems like I'm alwasy interested in the same things over and over, but these are still kind of cute anyway.

The Show without a Name

I was lazy and quite hazy during last nights' super packed opening at Rebecca's temporary space, and was carrying my too-heavy-canon-camera in my back pocket, and still I totally skipped on taking any pictures. Angelo took tons and he blogged them too, I'm just posting some pics of the works so you get an idea. I was pretty happy with the way everything turned out. Angelo's amazing TheTasteOfTears.com a blurry view of Angelo's room My ScreenTrees with Miltos' 444theory.com in the background
go ahead and post your 444's on Miltos 444theory.com
Angelo's Neen Emblem Curtain

A still from MirrorCloud

Really I have to say that I was quite egocentric and mostly took photos of my pieces, so I'll be going back for a more thorough documentation

The Crack of Dawn

I left the BlueBoy club really late, and it was totally dark outside and I could not see much, and I had forgoten that there is a time of day in Second Life, and that sometimes it's night and sometimes day. The good thing with time on the internet is that you can set it to fit your mood, and in second life you can choose how the sun looks like, so I decided to have a rising sun moment, and when the light came I found myself next to this really funny gay monument.

This Thursday Night

This coming Thursday night, is the opening of "our" show. Miltos, Angelo and me are showing with Rebecca Camhi gallery at the space of wannajob/locomotiva in the Gazi area of Athens. Konstandinoupoleos 44, come 9ish, stay late.

Water Mania

Once upon a time, in a Water World far far away, there was a plastic elephant who was mad at The Plastic Chairs. Some others were petrified in apool, stuck forever in mid winter waiting for the screaming crowds of overexcited kids raging on their sugar highs, crashing on the fake rock, slipping down the super menacing Hydra-Lernea-looking water slide, and more and more.

Fire Island Loving

Summer is coming and this time of year I always think of
Fire Island,one of the most poetic places ever:
Passing by a weird triangle house, getting lost in the dunes,ending up at the Meatrack where you can almost see the ghosts of orgies past, listening to a distact disco party mixed in with seagulls, gayboy-talk and the surf.