Dear All,
We are very pleased to share that students of the Architecture Department received three prestigious international distinctions.
·The project ‘Dys.M.O.T.i.a‘ was awarded the second prize in the ‘New ways to live Venice’international competition organised by MArch in fall 2014. [https://m-arch.co.uk/past-competition.html]
Team members: 5th year students Elena Stavrou and Christiana Karamalli and 4th year students Savros Chrysanthou, Stephanie Zavalli and Tasos Pouros.
·The project ‘Staging Transit‘ was awarded the third prize in the ‘New ways to live Venice’international competition organised by MArch in fall 2014. [https://m-arch.co.uk/past-competition.html]
Team members: 5th year students Mahssa Sabouhi and Marios Demetriou and 4th year students Andreas Perentes, Katerina Pantelidi and Chrystalla Koufopavlou.
The ‘New ways to live Venice’competition invited both professional and student architects topropose innovative residential propositions for the abandoned islands of Poveglia and Ottagono, while considering alternative transportation systems in the region of Venice. This was expected to be an exemplary guide for the future development of this historical city.
·The project ‘Deceleration Sanctuary’ was awarded the second student prize in the ‘Looking Forward: Re-Imagining The Athenaeum ofPhiladelphia’international competition, fall 2014. The winning project was exhibited in Philadelphia from December 2014 until February 2015, as well as published in various online journals.[https://www.philaathenaeum.org/lookingforward/prizes.html]
Team members: 5th year students Chrysanthos Yiakubiv and Michalis Peppas and 4th year students Kyriakos Neoptolemou, Valerija Galkina and Thalia Andreou.
The ‘Looking Forward’ competition challenged architects and designers to imagine the Philadelphia Athenaeum of the future. The competition was launched to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Athenaeum in 2014.
All teams developed their competition projects within the agenda of UNIT 4 [Divining the future“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”] (run by Markella Menikou and Adonis Cleanthous).
UNIT 4 utilises a range of international architecture competitions as a key pedagogic tool. The competition briefs provide a springboard for ideas and simultaneously the vehicle via which students test concepts and develop their thinking within the unit agenda. All student projects are therefore entries to international competitions.
These distinctions are undoubtedly significant international recognitions for our students, our unit, Department and University.
Kind Regards,
Markella Menikou
Adonis Cleanthous