About this Event
Athens as a Project is an interdisciplinary publication that stems from a collaboration between Yiorgis Yerolymbos and Platon Issaias. The book presents insights into Athens and the Greek urban environment in the form of parallel research projects in the fields of architecture and photography. Tracing the connection between social transformation, urban management and architectural form, the book presents a survey of the city, its architecture, its space, its history and contemporary life. Using Athens as a case study, it aims to define an original method of studying the city and urban form.
We’re delighted to welcome Platon Issaias to the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of this fantastic new volume. Aristide Antonas and David Burns will join Platon in conversation, and the evening will be introduced by Hamed Khosravi.
Available at the special launch price of £38 (RRP £44).
Platon Issaias is an architect, researcher and educator. He is co-founder of Fatura Collaborative, Research and Design Practice. Platon teaches architecture and urban design at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and AA, where he is Co-Head of the Projective Cities Programme.
Aristide Antonas is an architect, writer and visual artist working in Athens and Vienna. His architecture is presented as a theoretical investigation linking fiction to practice. Aristide’s work was shown in Documenta 14 in Kassel (2017) and Venice Biennale (2021). He has published literature, playwrights and essays including The Archipelago of Protocols (2016).
David Burns is Reader in Architecture and Media Studies at the Royal College of Art. His research examines the historiographies of sites of nuclear colonialism. For two decades, he has written and led transdisciplinary teaching in architecture, art and design in Australia, the US and the UK.
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