ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW

• Human, Nature and city

  15 January, 2011

  Environmental planning and urban landscape in our days.     

• REFUGE IN ARCHITECTURE

  18 August, 2010

  The Education Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. By Aris Georges, M.Arch, Professor of Architecture, Taliesin.     

• Gesamtkunstwerk

  30 June, 2010

  'total work of art'     

• Architecture: contemplating its future

  12 June, 2010

  Architecture... What does its future hold?     

• The Acropolis Museum: An Unhappy Fit

  08 June, 2010

  Let us take away a lesson from this missed opportunity. (by Jan Lepicovsky)
  (Bernard Tschumi  responds to this article.)     

• A multi-deterministic approach to architecture

  20 May, 2010

  Why always one idea over a medley of ideas?     

• The New Acropolis Museum: A Triumph of Sophistry

  21 September, 2009

  The Acropolis Museum fails its context on multiple levels, persisting with exhausted clichés like ‘visual connection’ and abstract conceptions to justify architectural decisions that let everyone and everything down once actually experienced. (by Dr Alexandra Stara)     

• Architectural cannibalism in Athens

  23 July, 2009

  Nikos Salingaros is a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. As an architectural theorist and Athenian, he writes about the New Acropolis Museum and takes part in the debate on the demolition of the two protected historical buildings on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. According to his own theories, the museum building is a priori destructive, because its architect relies upon the deconstructivist movement.”     

• Democracy and architecture

  08 January, 2008

  Common principles and identical points of start? A new arena of motives in the modern adaptations of Democratic society in the field of Architecture! Is it possible to find common points of start in two totally different notions as in “democracy” and “architecture”?     

• DESTROY below the ACROPOLIS - VIDEO

  13 November, 2007

  Demolishing the two listed buildings would mutilate the architectural continuum of D. Areopagitou, which helps make this walkway one of the most interesting and beautiful in Europe. It would also vanquish an important piece of our modern urban history. Ironically, this is for the benefit of a museum site, whose mission should be to preserve and transmit memory, not to destroy it.