The bilingual volume “Topologies – Nikos Ktenas Architecture”, was published by ek Architectural Publications on the occasion of the event organized by ek magazine on December 12, 2025, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

The book, co-edited by Ariadni Vozani and Katerina Vassilakou, showcases ten realized buildings from the entire catalogue of Nikos Ktenas’ works, accompanied by previously unseen material – a text from his personal archive entitled “I Believe, I Research, I Consider” (2007) and an unpublished interview he had granted to ek publications (2018).

The bilingual volume “Typologies of Feelings: Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects and Associates”, featuring texts by AriadnιVozani and Yiannis Peponis, was published by ek Architectural Publications on the occasion of the event organized by ek magazine on December 13, 2024, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Designed by Typical Organization and curated by Andreas Kourkoulas, Katerina Kourkoulas, and Hannes Livers Gutberlet, the book captures the cultural imprint of the architectural firm from its inception in the late 1980s to the present.

 

This “cultural imprint” is a vital aspect of understanding the architectural work of Maria Kokkinou and Andreas Kourkoulas. Beyond addressing functional needs or even what is commonly perceived or interpreted as “aesthetic,” architecture inherently contributes to culture. The book reflects this cultural dimension through a primarily visual narrative, organized into five sections: Place, Vision, Stratification, Movement, Light. These thematic sections serve as a reading guide, highlighting the terms and dynamics that define the firm’s architectural composition.

 

Culture, as explored in this work, is intrinsically linked to a sense of refinement and the evocation of emotions capable of influencing, directly or indirectly, our daily lives. Through its visual and textual content, the volume invites readers to appreciate how architecture transcends mere utility, becoming a medium of cultural and emotional resonance.

The bilingual volume “Synchronicities: The Architecture of Rena Sakellaridou” by ek Architectural Publications, is curated by Ariadni Vozani. The monographic presentation within the book highlights Rena Sakellaridou’s “hybrid” role—simultaneously an architect, a professor of architecture, and an author—with a well-founded theoretical background. Rena Sakellaridou’s introductory statement, “all is one,” sets the tone for the works categorized into five distinct chapters. These chapters explore allegorical titles, navigating the realms of architecture, perceptual aesthetics, and conceptual-mental processes. Accompanying the presentations are brief autobiographical notes, providing nuanced perspectives on various aspects of her architectural journey.

Rena Sakellaridou, an influential figure in Greece’s architectural landscape, is a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a founding member of SPARCH architectural office. Currently leading the RS SPARCH office, her extensive portfolio includes individual and collaborative projects across various architectural categories and scales, earning accolades for its consistently high quality, both within Greece and internationally. Recognized in over 26 architectural competitions, her work has been showcased in 37 exhibitions, including prestigious venues such as the Venice Biennale, Milan Triennale, DAM Frankfurt, NAi Rotterdam, and RIBA. Notably, her buildings have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and the arcVision Award for Women in Architecture.

Takis Zenetos passed away in 1977, at the peak of his creativity, having been one of the most daring, pioneering Greek architects. His realized and unrealized projects, from buildings and urban master planning to furniture design, stand out in their visionary approach; his work remains relevant, and it is an object of study among several Greek and international researchers. An early advocate of digital technology, Zenetos is -perhaps- a singular case, as an early member of the architectural “digital generation.” In the light of recent modifications in two of his most outstanding buildings (FIX Factory/National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, and the Lycabettus Theater), his contribution to contemporary Greek architecture, and its significance, take center stage anew, soliciting fresh arguments.

The recent unsealing of the archive by the architect’s family became the starting point for this collective volume, curated by Ariadni Vozani and Elias Constantopoulos. The book consists of two parts: The first includes critical essays by architectural academics and researchers, who elaborate on their own viewpoint upon Takis Ch. Zenetos’ life and work; the second includes presentations of archival documents by the architects and researchers Nikos Lambrou and Christos Kritikos.

Contributors to this volume include: Tilemachos Adrianopoulos, Ariadni Vozani, Panos Dragonas & Lydia Kallipoliti, Dora Theodoropoulou, Elias Constantopoulos, Nikos Lambrou, Giorgos Tzirtzilakis, Panayiotis Tournikiotis, Kostas Tsiambaos; the opening note is by the architect’s daughter, Elina Zenetou.

The present volume features works undertaken during the last decade by one of the most prominent architecture offices in Greece: Alexandros N. Tombazis and Associates. Alexandros Tombazis established his practice more than half a century ago, in 1963; he is considered as one of the most important, pioneering Greek architects of his generation, counting many important projects in Greece and abroad. During its 56 years of operation, the office has elaborated almost every architectural scale and typology.

40 years ISV ARCHITECTS

The publication of this book, in the context of 40 years of ISV Architects’ creative course, presents to the Greek public projects of different typologies of the last decade (houses, residential complexes, office buildings and hotels) that helped shape a new image of the environment of the city, the suburbs and the Greek countryside, through architectural and constructional quality.

Alongside the texts and the rich photographic material of the edition, previously unpublished architectural drawings of these particular structures are presented, with the intention of a wider understanding of ISV’s principles and synthetic choices in projects that aimed to be places of desire, places of a timeless, hedonistic and unapologetically modern architecture.

40 years ISV ARCHITECTS

The publication of this book, in the context of 40 years of ISV Architects’ creative course, presents to the Greek public projects of different typologies of the last decade (houses, residential complexes, office buildings and hotels) that helped shape a new image of the environment of the city, the suburbs and the Greek countryside, through architectural and constructional quality.

Alongside the texts and the rich photographic material of the edition, previously unpublished architectural drawings of these particular structures are presented, with the intention of a wider understanding of ISV’s principles and synthetic choices in projects that aimed to be places of desire, places of a timeless, hedonistic and unapologetically modern architecture.

Letter from London: Greek students and architects in the United Kingdom 1955-2015

The present publication, along with the texts and design projects it includes, aspires to summarise the different educational perceptions of architecture in the United Kingdom from the second half of the 20th century until now, through projects by Greek architecture students in various schools, mainly London ones. Additionally, it aims to pinpoint the British experience stigma in those Greek architects that worked in the UK for a while, as well as in the Greek architecture scene, through research studies, participations in architectural competitions or materialised projects, closely articulated by the successive architectural currents.

This book publication presents to the Greek public for the first time – with plans, models and photographs – the successive design studies for the Athens Conservatoire, which as “Music Academy”, was one of the buildings Ioannis Despotopoulos had included in his Cultural Centre composition and the only one which ultimately materialised. Some forty years after its partial completion and operation, the Conservatoire, distant and enigmatic within the urban fabric of the capital, remains paradoxically unpublished in the specialised architectural press, where only few of its drawings and photos have surfaced. The publication corresponds to a new cycle of interest in the work of Despotopoulos that has recently opened and includes research papers in universities in Greece and abroad, publications and lectures.

The three residences designed and realized by Nicos Valsamakis in the early 1960s, briefly signal the modernization phase of contemporary Greek architecture. The architect’s house in Filothei and the two houses in Anavyssos, Attica for his friends and colleagues, the engineers Alekos Lanaras and Ion Paraschis, constitute a coherent Greek version of the implementation of modern post-war architecture.

The book, with the choice of six houses, representative of the Cretan works of D. & S. Antonakakis, contributes to recording the evolution of the architects during the last forty years, focusing on thε particular type of projects which are realized in the context of the Cretan landscape.