A: Athens, Exarcheia, Tositsa 24, 10683
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.
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 explores the common ground between Architecture and the Process of Visual Composition (Department of Architecture, N.T.U.A.).
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 Candidate, Athens School of Architecture
National Technical University, 2016-2018
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 - 2018
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 Millios, Syntagma, 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
DOMES AWARDS 2016, 2017
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