The Department of Architecture ARC of the University of Nicosia cordially invites you to a series of events under the umbrella of the New Distance Learning MSc Programme in Computational Design and Digital Fabrication offered in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck, Institute for Experimental Architecture Hochbau in Austria.
Programme
| 17:30 – 18:30 | MSc Workshop Output – Students Presentation |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Keynote Lecture: “Recent Work”, Christos Passas (Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, project director at the urban development at Eleftheria Square, Nicosia) |
Profile
Christos joined Zaha Hadid Architects as a Senior Designer in February 1998 and has been a key member in the development of the overall artistic evolution of the Studio, its business development, the office culture and leader of a wide range of build and unbuilt projects and competitions within the practice.
Education & Teaching
He received his architecture degree with Honours as a Fulbright Scholar at the Pratt lnstitute’s School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NY in 1995. He was registered as an Architect at Technical Chamber Cyprus 1996, a member of the Architects Registration Board in the UK since 2000 and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2014. He received his Graduate Design Diploma in 1998 in Advanced Architectural Design at the Architectural Association, London.
Christos taught Parametric Design and Urbanism at the Architectural Association with Patrik Schumacher in London between 2007 and 2010, working on the exploration of digital and parametric techniques for the formation of large urban settlements. He subsequently went on to serve as Guest DAAD Professor in the Dessau Institute of Architecture (HA) at Bauhaus, Dessau, from 2008 to 2012 working on the implementation of digital design strategies for large scale objects with a complex geometry and character, exploring uniqueness, diversity and complexity. He regularly participates in design juries at universities across the UK and Europe, and is a frequent guest lecturer in parametric design, design thinking and the role of Architecture.
Projects
Christos has been involved in many of the practice’s seminal projects such as the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome; and the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi. He co-authored and led the design of the Phaeno Science Centre project in Wolfsburg, Germany, which was shortlisted for the Sterling prize in 2006 and awarded the 2006 RIBA European Award. Christos has served as design and project director for cultural, mixed-use and master-planning projects in the US, Germany and the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, the Middle East, UAE and Russia. Some of these projects include the Dominion Tower in Moscow, which opened in 2015 Iconic OPUS project in Dubai (finished in 2018) which extends the practices engagement in both the interior and the exterior architecture, the urban development work at Eleftheria Square in Cyprus (on-going). More recently, he spearheaded the designs that deal with the future of workspace such as the Sberbank Technopark HQ, OPP HQ in China as well as a variety of smart City Masterplans in various regions on the world, predominantly researching the impact of diqital techno-economies on ecoloqy and sustainability.
