URBAN TERMINAL
Mixed-use building complex in Dietikon, Zurich, Switzerland
Location: Dietikon, 15 min. from Zurich by train
Site: 12.232 sqm
Program: 20.800 sqm. Homes for elderly people 7.600 sqm, housing 2.800 sqm, cultural activities 7.600 sqm, and commercial activities 3.200…
AAO PROJECT: ETHICS / AESTHETICS
The Board of Trustees of the Benaki Museum Athens and the non-profit organization 4 Life Strategies cordially invites you to the two-day international conference Ethics / Aesthetics.
Keynote speakers are Cameron Sinclair/Architecture for Humanity; John…
AAO PROJECT: ETHICS / AESTHETICS
BOOK-CATALOGUE (English/Greek), Athens: Papasotiriou, 2011
find book@Papasotiriou bookstores
The Against All Odds project is a mechanism that produces thoughts, ideas and actions. Specifically, AAO is: first, a ‘think-tank’: it promotes debate on occurring issues which need to be addressed within…
PUBLICGREEN_ORDER
New public green space strategy for Athens
The apartment block unit: The apartment block unit is the prevailing building type in Athens. It is always in a transitory phase, either during its years-long construction phase, or…
BLUMENHÄUSER
Housing in Bern, Switzerland
Location: Schönbergpark, Bern
Site: 6.136 sqm
Program: Housing of 2.000 sqm in new and existing buildings with apartments of 130-170 sqm, common use spaces and landscape design
The site of the new housing is…
TOPOS CORALIA
Redefinition of the urban waterfront of Busan, Korea
The proposal extends under existing Gwangan Bridge and suggests the bridge’s transformation into a new urban site made out of natural materials. A direct contact with the water is being proposed and the creation…
AAO PROJECT: ETHICS / AESTHETICS
Exhibition Design at the Benaki Museum Athens, Pireos Street Annex
Parallel exhibition of the AAO project: ‘Slow Down Rooms’ (curated by Iris Kritikou)
08 June – 31 July 2011
Architects: Aris Zambikos, Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Evelina Rempi…
ATHENS: A CASE OF ‘SYMPTOMATIC’ UGLINESS
Talks at Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies, 2004, and Yale University, The European Studies Council
Modern Athens is said to be an ugly, disfigured city. However, any attempt to impose on it during its modern history a…
OF ACTIVE AND NEUTRAL SPACE
Invitation lecture, 2003, School of Architecture, Laval University, Quebec Canada
With references to Bergson on pure memory / memory-movement and recognition by inattention / attentive recognition, as well as to dreams and the unfamiliar, two spatial interpretation tools are elaborated,…
INSIDE-OUT
Office interior with ‘Un-intimate Comfort’ chair ‘Hard/Soft/Cover/Core’ table. Filopappou, Athens, Greece
‘Inside-Out’ questions the notion of interiority and comfort by intertwining controversial textures and materials linked to exterior and domestic environments in an office interior. An elevated corridor of…
THE AESTHETICS OF ETHICAL GYMNASTICS: ARCHITECTURE IN NEED
Lecture in ‘Emergency Architecture’ international conference on low-cost housing and technical innovation, 13-15 July 2004, Universidade Estadual de Londrina - Brasil
By referring to Conceptualism that appeared in art and architecture in the mid 1960ys, to the current design process,…
BLUE VELVET BOOK PILLOW
Bookcase
This project subverts the expected materials a bookcase is usually made of. The blue velvet, which coats foam-rubber, creates a pillow for the books. The ‘blue velvet book-pillow’ expands the meaning of the bookcase, as of not only carrying…
PRIVATE PUBLIC AND VICE VERSA
Talk at the 3rd Busan International Cultural Festival, Korea, 2001, and lecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece
The subject is investigated by looking firstly at the material and pragmatic hypostasis of the private connected to ownership…
LS / ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGIES
Lina Stergiou founded in 2001 the design research practice LS ARCHITECTURE which became restructured and renamed into LS / ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGIES in 2010.
LS / ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGIES focuses on inventive design approach and research-oriented experimentation. Working on urbanism,…
MUSEUM AND MEMORY
Invitation lecture, 2001, University Institute of Architecture Venice IUAV, Italy
The relationship between museum and memory is investigated by examining how memory operates (using as a reference H. Bergson), as also by how it works in the museum and in…
TV DANCING BOXES
Furniture for image and sound
‘TV dancing boxes’ is a multiple use device designed for TV, Video, Stereo and storing of CD’s, Tapes and Videotapes. All of its parts turn around a vertical axis, open in all possible ways and…

WRAPPING MARBLE
Office interior and furniture design. Nea Smirni, Athens
‘Wrapping Marble’ houses a small musical company.
Forming an ambiguous environment ‘Wrapping Marble’ (a marble zone) serves a variety of functions: wardrobe, shelves for books and CD’s, and false ceiling for lighting…