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Geography, Tradition, and
the Individual: The Case of
Modern Greek Architecture
February 15, 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
February 16, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Mu lti c u ltu ra l C enter ( M CC )
The James and Sarah Argyropoulos Endowed Fund in Hellenic Studies supports the
study and dissemination of classical and modern Greek culture at UC Santa Barbara.
This conference program is also co-sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
F RI D A Y , F E B RUAR Y 1 5
O p e n i n g R e m a r k s a n d A c k n o w l e dg e m e n t s
2:30-3:00 p.m.
Geography, Tradition, and the Individual:
The Case of Modern Greek Architecture
Chancellor Henry Yang
David Marshall
Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts
Executive Dean of College of Letters and Science
Professor Apostolos Athanassakis
James and Sarah Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies
UC Santa Barbara Department of Classics
Professor Voula Tsouna
Chair, UC Santa Barbara Department of Philosophy
INTR O D UCT O R Y PANEL
3:00-4:15 p.m.
Trends and Directions of Architecture
in Greece and Internationally
M o de r ated b y
Professor Judith Sheine
Chair, Department of Architecture
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pa n e l i sts
Professor Spyros Amourgis
Professor Emeritus of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
President of the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (HQAA)
Former Vice President of the Hellenic Open University
Professor Helen Fessas-Emmanouil
Architectural Historian
Professor of Theatre Architecture
National University of Athens
Professor Demetrios Issaias
Associate Professor of Architectural Design
School of Architecture
National Technical University of Athens
Professor Georgios A. Panetsos
Associate Professor of Architecture
Chairman, Department of Architecture
University of Patras, Greece
Professor Spiro N. Pollalis
Professor of Design, Technology and Management
Harvard Design School
Professor Panayotis Tournikiotis
Professor of Architectural Theory
School of Architecture
National Technical University of Athens
KE Y N O TE A D D RE S S
4:30-5:30 p.m
Greek Architecture and Urban Design:
3000 Years of Creating
Professor Spyros Amourgis
S ATUR D A Y , F E B RUAR Y 1 6
s e ss i o n s
9:00-9:50 a.m.
The Difficult Leap: Greek Architecture 1950-2007
Professor Georgios A. Panetsos
10:00-10:50 a.m.
Revisiting Mountain Villages in Greece After the Recent Fires
Professor Spiro N. Pollalis
11:00-11:50 a.m.
Modernity, Tradition, Locality and Personality: Reassessing
Town Planner Doxiadis and Architect Konstantinidis
Professor Helen Fessas-Emmanouil
l u n c h B REAK
Noon-1:15 p.m.
s e ss i o n s
1:30-2:20 p.m.
The Making of Athens’ Archeological Site and the Aesthetics
of Historical Stratification
Professor Panayotis Tournikiotis
2:30-3:20 p.m.
Questions About Tradition: The Case of Modern Greek Architecture
Professor Demetrios Issaias
C O NCLU D IN G PANEL
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Architecture of Greece and Trends in American Architecture
M o de r ated b y
Marc Fisher
Associate Vice Chancellor, Campus Design and Facilities
Pa n e l i sts
Professor Spyros Amourgis
Professor Eleni Fessas-Emmanouil
Professor Demetrios Issaias
Professor Georgios A. Panetsos
Professor Spiro N. Pollalis
Professor Panayotis Tournikiotis
Mr. Barry Berkus
Member, American Institute of Architects
Member, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
Professor Jurg Lang
Professor Emeritus, Architecture and Urban Design, UC Los Angeles
Professor Judith Sheine
Chair, Department of Architecture
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Professor Christine Theodoropoulos
Head, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon
Co n c l u d i n g R e m a r k s
5:30 p.m.
Professor Voula Tsouna
Professor Apostolos Athanassakis
Spyros Amourgis
Professor Emeritus of Architecture,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
President of the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency for
Higher Education (HQAA)
Former Vice President of the Hellenic Open University
M. Arch National Polytechnic University of Athens
Adolf Loos (AIA International Book Award), The Historiography of Modern Architecture, and Architecture in Contemporary Times. He is editor of The Parthenon and its
Impact in Modern Times (AIA International Book Award) and the Greek translator
of Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture. His current work is concerned with Le
Corbusier and Greek architecture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Demetrios Issaias
Spyros Amourgis was Dean of the College of Environmental Design at California
State Polytechnic University in Pomona from 1994-96, and was appointed liaison
by the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) with the
European Schools of Architecture. He has been the recipient of numerous awards,
his projects have been published in professional journals throughout Europe and
the East, and his building designs have been exhibited at the German Architecture
Museum in Frankfurt, the Architecture Academy of Mendrizio in Switzerland, the
Benaki Museum in Athens, and in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Associate Professor of Architectural Design
School of Architecture
National Technical University of Athens
M. Arch National Technical University of Athens
Georgios A. Panetsos
Judith Sheine
Georgios A. Panetsos teaches design studios and lectures on architecture theory
and criticism, as well as research methodology. He is also the director of several
research programs, including one on the redevelopment/enhancement of the
Classical Marathon Way and others on the urbanism and architecture of towns
in the Greek periphery. He was advisor on architecture and urban design to the
Mayor of Athens (1991-94), the City of Rotterdam (1993-95) and the Greek Government (2002), as well as Curator of several architecture exhibitions. Since 2005, he
has been the editor-in-chief of the international architecture review Domés.
Judith Sheine has won several prizes in design competitions and an Architectural
Record House Award (1995) for the Sarli house in Juniper Hills, California. She has
published a number of books on the architect R.M. Schindler; she co-edited, with
Lionel March, R.M. Schindler: Composition and Construction (Academy Editions,
1993) and authored “R.M. Schindler: Works and Projects” (Editorial Gustavo Gili,
1998) and R.M. Schindler (Phaidon Press, 2001).
Associate Professor of Architecture
Chairman, Department of Architecture
University of Patras, Greece
M.Arch Harvard University, 1986
Spiro N. Pollalis
Professor of Design, Technology and Management
Harvard Design School
M. Arch Harvard University
Spiro N. Pollalis is currently on sabbatical from Harvard (2007-08) and is Visiting
Professor at the University of Patras (Fall 2007) and at the University of Stuttgart
and TU-Delft (Spring 2008). The emphasis on his projects, academic work and
consulting is at the intersection of design, business, and technology. His recent
practice concentrates on digital architecture enhancing physical space. In 2007,
he founded the five-year RMJM Program for Integrated Design at Harvard. He also
founded the Center for Design Informatics (1997-2004) at Harvard and was Head
of ETH-World Center at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland (2001-02). He has authored
numerous case studies, papers, and books.
Helen Fessas-Emmanouil
Architectural Historian
Professor of Theatre Architecture
National University of Athens
Ph.D Architecture National University of Athens, 1991
Helen Fessas-Emmanouil is a researcher and historian of modern Greek architecture and has published extensively in Greek and foreign journals, conference proceedings, and collective scholarly monographs. She has also authored ten books,
among them the two-volume Theatre Architecture in Modern Greece, 1720-1940
(Academy of Athens Award) and five bilingual books. She is coordinator of Greek
participation in the research program, Highlights of Balkan Architecture and Town
Planning. She was responsible for the research and writing of the Greek portion of
the CD-ROM Discovering Contemporary Architecture in Paris, London, and Athens.
Panayotis Tournikiotis
Associate Professor of Architectural Theory
School of Architecture
National Technical University of Athens
Doctorat d’etat, University of Paris VIII, 1988
Panayotis Tournikiotis is Chair of the DOCOMOMO International Specialist Committee on Registers, which aims to engage working parties in fostering documentation on modern movement buildings and sites. His focus is on Architecture,
Town Planning, and Philosophy. He is the author of several books, among them
Demetrios Issaias has collaborated for many years with Tassis Papaioannou, with
whom he set up an architectural practice in 1979. Within the framework of this
practice, he has designed prize-winning private and public projects and participated in numerous architectural competitions.
Professor and Chair
Department of Architecture
College of Environmental Design
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
M.Arch. Princeton University, 1979
Jurg Lang
Professor Emeritus
Architecture and Urban Design
UC Los Angeles
MUP Graduate School of Ekistics Institute, Athens
Jurg Lang is a practicing architect in Los Angeles, California. Before coming to the
United States, he worked with Henning Larsen in Denmark and C.A. Doxiadis in
Greece. He was a research fellow at the Planning Institute of the ETH in Zurich,
Switzerland. His built work includes residences, commercial and institutional buildings, and a city center in the Middle East. His research interests are in urban design,
building technology, and computer applications in urban design and architecture.
Christine Theodoropoulos
Head and Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
University of Oregon
M.Arch. Yale University, 1985
Christine Theodoropoulos has conducted widely-recognized research on structural
and seismic design and disaster preparedness and has authored a chapter on seismic design regulation in Designing for Earthquakes:A Manual for Architects(FEMA,
2007). She oversaw the preservation of the Neutra Research House in Pomona,
California and has conducted preservation research both in the United States and
abroad. She has held leadership positions on the National Architectural Accreditation Board, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National
Board of the American Institute of Architecture Students and is currently editor of
the Connector: A Forum for Teachers of Technology in Schools of Architecture.
Barry Berkus
Member, American Institute of Architects
Member, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
Barry A. Berkus is founder and President of B3 Architects and Berkus Design Studio.
His firm designed UC Santa Barbara’s Mosher Alumni House. He is an adjunct
professor for the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Architectural Doctorate program
and has been a guest lecturer at UC Santa Barbara, MIT and Texas A&M. He
served on the Policy Advisory Board for Harvard University’s Joint Center for
Housing Studies, was a guest lecture in 2007 at Harvard’s Graduate School of
Design, and serves as a Trustee for UC Santa Barbara. He and his firms have
garnered more than 400 design and planning awards and have been featured in
numerous Architecture publications.