Giannis Giannoutsos
Architect ∙ Visual Artist

Office

NOTE • ON ARCHITECTURE AND ART

 

It is just so often that society puts particular emphasis on circumstances well beyond the anthropocentric nature of Art and Architecture. A visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens may help grasp the age-old pedigree and the actual continuity of both Art and Society. Themes and archetypes re-emerge continuously, with each successive period devising its own peculiar modes of expression. An analogous phenomenon is also to be observed in Architecture. Each historical period sets forth its own modalities—related first and foremost with the corresponding social milieu—bearing its own particularities and responding to its own specific needs. Could it be that we are now yet again invited to revisit our individual and collective way of being, which through proper education and cultivation will ultimately lead Architecture and Art to a more pronounced anthropocentric role?

 

 

ACTIVITIES

 

Giannis Giannoutsos established his Architecture Office and Design Studio in 2015 in the center of Athens, 24 Tositsa Str. His office undertakes small and large scale commissions and is active in architectural creation both in the stages of design as well as execution. Architectural thought in this creative pursuit is enriched thanks to the cooperation of experienced professionals (civil engineers, engineers, topographers) who take part in the whole process, starting from the design phase all through to the completion of an architectural project.

 

 

e:  jgiannoutsos@gmail.com 

 

t:  (+30) 695 72 95 706

 

a:  Athens, Tositsa 24,10683

GIANNIS GIANNOUTSOS

 

Architect Engineer (National Technical University of Athens) · Visual Artist (Athens School of Fine Arts)

 

Giannis Giannoutsos was born in Agrinio, Greece in 1986. He is an Architect (N.T.U.A. 2005-2011) and Visual Artist (A.S.F.A. 2011-2018). During his university years, he received the  “Award for the Advancement of Science and the Arts” by the Thomaidion Foundation of the N.T.U.A. While studying Architecture he attended drawing and painting courses in Theodoros Pantos’ Workshop. Having won a scholarship by the State Scholarships Foundation, he completed his Master Degree in 2015 as part of the N.T.U.A. post-graduate program “Planning – Space – Culture”. His ongoing Doctoral research explored the common ground between Architecture and the Process of Visual Composition (Department of Architecture, N.T.U.A. 2016-2020).

His contribution into the wider community of researchers and creative artists is unfailingly expressed through his participation in both Panhellenic and international architecture and visual arts exhibitions and conferences. He has further taken part in prestigious Panhellenic architectural Competitions and received several awards.

In 2017 he earned a further distinction, the Europe’s emerging architect-“40 under 40 Award” from the European Centre for Architecture,Art Design and Urban Studies,Chicago Athenaeum. In 2016 and 2017 he received the DOMES prize – International review of Architecture, Best Study Award (2016); an Honorary Mention for best Young Architect’s work (2016); and an Honorary Mention for best study of the year (2017).

Since 2016 he has been teaching Architectural planning design in the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, Volos and since 2017 he has been teaching Architectural planning design in the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras. In the years 2014-2015 he worked for N.T.U.A. as a research associate in the field of architectural composition. In 2015 he established his own architectural office and studio in the center of Athens.


 

EDUCATION

 

Athens School of Architecture

National Technical University of Athens, 2011 

 

MSc ‘Space - Design - Culture’, Athens School of Architecture

National Technical University of Athens, 2015 

 

Athens School of Fine Arts

Department of Visual Arts, 2011 - 2018  

 

PhD , Athens School of Architecture

National Technical University, 2016-2020

 

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Volos

Architectural Design Studio, 2016 - 2017

 

Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Volos

Architectural Design Studio, 2017 - 2018

 

Department of Architecture at the University of Patras

Architectural Design Studio, 2017 - 2022

 

MArch Architecture and Urban Design, (RIBA Part II).

Partner Associate Lecturer OBU - Oxford Brookes University to deliver the MArch Architecture and Urban Design course which is delivered under a collaborative arrangement between Metropolitan College, Greece, and Oxford Brookes University, UK., Αθήνα, 2020-2021, 2021-2022.

Partner Associate Lecturer PAL - University of Portsmouth to deliver the R0400F MArch Architecture and Urbanism course which is delivered under a collaborative arrangement between Metropolitan College, Greece, and the University of Portsmouth, UK., Αθήνα, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.

 

Athens School of Architecture - National Technical University of Athens, Teaching Assistant, 2013 - 2015

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

Exhibition of Contemporary Greek Architecture in Moscow, ‘AFTERSPACE’, UIA

Moscow, Russia, 2016

 

8th Biennale of Young Greek Architects 

Benaki Museum, 2015

 

8th annual architecture exhibition ‘The Margin’

Patra, Greece, 2016

 

‘Architects - Visual Artists’, Hellenic Institute of Architecture

Athens, 2016

 

'The poetry of Chios from the eyes of artists'

Ottoman Baths, Castle of Chios, 2014

 

‘GRE AT - Greek Architectural Talent’

The Athens Concert Hall, 2013

 

‘City within a city’

‘City Link, Galleria Spyros MilliosSyntagma, 2013

 

‘Athens Future Bench’

Athens, 2009

 

συν’ gallery - Group exhibitions

athens, 2005 - 2011

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

‘YOUNG GREEK ARCHITECTS’ - GIANNIS GIANNOUTSOS

Giorgos Triantafillou Blog, 2016

 

DOMES -  International Review of Architecture

Domes Awards 2016

Domes Awards 2017

 

KTIRIO Editions - RENOVATIONS

Ktirio, 2016

 

8th Biennale of Young Greek Architects

Distinctions, 2015  

 

Archisearch - ‘WHITE CHAPEL’

Article: S. Martinos, 2015 

 

greekarchitects.gr - ‘WHITE CHAPEL’

Seeking the sacred’, article: N. Mitzalis

 

‘AITION’ cultural edition

‘YOUNG GREEK ARCHITECTS’, 2015

 

Architectural issues 

'KAPRALOS MUSEUM', issue 47

 

Ek architecture editions

‘ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEMATIC MUSEUM OF PIRAEUS’, 2015

 

International Journal of the Constructed Environment

‘A TREE IN A WOMB’, 2011

 

Bustler.net

PIRAEUS TOWER: CHANGING THE FRONT' 2010

 

 

JURY 

 

Jury for AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2017

Chicago Athenaeum Institution, 2017

 

 

 

AWARDS

 

40 UNDER 40 AWARD 
European centre of Architecture and Urban studies, 2017

 

1st Prize - Panhellenic Architectural Design Competition by: Municipality of Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 2022

“Bioclimatic regeneration of Eleftheria Square and the wider area of ​​the eastern entrance to the historic center of the city”

 

DOMES AWARDS 2016, 2017, 2019

DOMES - Inernational Review of Architecture 

 

3rd Prize

Architecture competition 'A KIOSK FOR THE CITY OF ATHENS', 2015

 

2nd Prize

Architecture competition 'MUNICIPAL MARKET OF HALKIDA', 2017

 

Distinction

Architecture competition 'REGENERATION OF A FORMER CEMETERY', 2017

 

Distinction

European architecture competition ‘ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEMATIC MUSEUM OF PIRAEUS’, 2015

 

Distinction 

Industrial Design Competition ‘DROMEAS’, 2013

 

1st Prize

Artwork competition ‘INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DRUG ABUSE’, 2014

 

1st prize

Competition for the logo of the Municipality of Gortynia, 2012 - 2013

 

3rd Prize

Visual Arts contest 'Cities within the City', Piraeus Bank, 2012

 

Distinction

Architecture competition ‘PIRAEUS TOWER: CHANGING THE FRONT', greekarchitects.gr, 2010

 

Distinction

'KAPRALOS, MORALIS, NIKOLAOU MUSEUMS', GRE A T - Greek Architectural Talent, the Athens Concert Hall, 2013

 

3rd prize

Logo Competition 'ANTONIS TRITSIS PARK' , 2010

 

 

 

'THOMAIDIS' NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS 

Award for exceptional academic achievement

• 1st prize 2010

• 2nd prize 2008 – 2009

• 'Lysandros Kautatzoglou award', 2009 - 2010.

• Thomaidis award for the presentation of the research work 'A TREE IN A WOMB', at the First international conference on the constructed environment, Venice, 2010

 

 

 

SCHOLARSHIP

State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), 2012 - 2013

 

 

 

CONFERENCES

 

AFETIRIES’, DOMES INDEX 04

DOMES - International Review of Architecture, Athens 2016

 

Fourth national Conference on Contemporary Religious Architecture, Athens, 2015

 

First International Conference on the Constructed Environment

A TREE IN A WOMB’, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy 2010

 

Fourth International Conference on the Constructed Environment 

DYNAMIC STRUCTURES’, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 2013

 

First National conference on ‘Art and Aesthetics’

ARCHETYPICAL CIRCLE FORMATIONS IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE’, Athens, 2015