Course Details

1. Comprehend the parameters that characterize the contemporary architecture.
2. Recognize the contemporary works of architecture and their creators.
3. Criticize and analyse a contemporary architectural project.
4. Collect, investigate and record information in order to identify the parameters that affect contemporary architecture.
5. Explain, summarize and evaluate the contemporary works of architecture.

Introduction to the first idea of a project: The analysis of the meaning of concept that gives the identity of a project.

Introduction to the Architectural Space: Determination of the vital gap that consists activity and gives shape to the Architectural Work.

Parameters of the organisation of space: Identification of the elements that play a role in the architectural synthesis and lead the architect to take final decisions.

Examples of Modern Architecture: Through examples of modern architecture we discuss issues as integration to the environment, integration of modern structures to historical sites, sustainability, color in architecture etc.

• Τάσος Κ. Μπίρης, Αρχιτεκτονικής Σημάδια και Διδάγματα. Στο ίχνος της Συνθετικής Δομής, εκδ.:Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, ΑΘΗΝΑ 1996.
• Γιάννης Πεπονής, Χωρογραφίες. Ο Αρχιτεκτονικός Σχηματισμός του Νοήματος, εκδ.:ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑ, ΑΘΗΝΑ 2003.
• Δημήτρης Α. Φατούρος, Ένα Συντακτικό της Αρχιτεκτονικής Σύνθεσης, εκδ.:ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΗΤΗΣ, ΘEΣ/ΝΙΚΗ 1995.

• Δημήτρης Φιλιππίδης, Αρχιτεκτονικές Μεταμορφώσεις. Μητροπολιτικά Κέντρα, εκδ.: ΜΕΛΙΣΣΑ, Αθήνα 1993.
• Δημήτρης Φιλιππίδης, Αρχιτεκτονικές Μεταμορφώσεις. Ελληνική Περιφέρεια, εκδ.: ΜΕΛΙΣΣΑ, Αθήνα 1993.
• Francis D.K. Ching, επιμ. Β. Γεωργιάννης. Αρχιτεκτονική. Μορφή, Χώρος και Διάταξη, εκδ.: ΙΩΝ,Αθήνα 2006.

This is a theoretical course which aims at introducing students to contemporary architectural precedents so that they shape the first pictures from modern architectural reality. At the same time, this course a?ms at broadening students? horizons in modern ideas that these examples convey or enclose so that they begin to understand the relation of the form with the ideological and further, cultural environment that created it. While the course collaborates with the BAARCH01 studio, the choice of examples and their way of analysis are determined by the studio’s themes that the instructive team proposes.