Nikos Ktenas I TOPOLOGIES

Architectural Event at SNFCC

“I believe that architecture is, above all, a spiritual process—or, as Louis Kahn so aptly put it, a ‘…search into the nature of human existence’.”

— Nikos Ktenas, July 2007

The event is free to attend, but pre-registration is required via the following link: ek-mag.com/event/

ek magazine, with the support of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture, will host an event honoring architect Nikos Ktenas at the SNFCC in December 2025. Nikos Ktenas, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), passed away in July 2022, during the most mature and creatively productive phase of his professional and academic career.

He was an architect with an international presence and a characteristic consistency of work between theory and practice. He taught in the United States and Europe, collaborated with Luigi Snozzi at the EPF Lausanne and was a professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Mendrisio and the National Technical University of Athens. His work, recognizable for its geometric purity and deep connection with the place, has been showcased in important European institutions, including the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris and the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. He had repeatedly distinguished himself in Greek and international competitions and was twice nominated for the European Mies van der Rohe Award. In 2017, he was awarded the first prize of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture for the project Inside-Out in Neo Psychiko.

Through a series of presentations by invited speakers, the event will seek to highlight his significant contributions to contemporary Greek architecture, architectural education, and cultural discourse.

Speakers:

– Katerina Vassilakou, Architect, AVW Architecture

– Ariadni Vozani, Professor, School of Architecture, NTUA

– Rena Sakellaridou, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, AUTH – RS SPARCH

– Manolis Stavrakakis, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, NTUA

– Panayotis Tournikiotis, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, NTUA

– Dimitris Filippidis, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, NTUA

– Erieta Attali, Architectural Photographer

– Pierre-Alain Croset, Professor for Architecture, Politecnico di Milano

– Elena Fontanella, Research Fellow – Politecnico di Milano

– Lorenzo Guzzini, SPD – Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano

Sponsors: AHI Carrier, Alumil, Europa, Halo