Lina Stergiou, “1960s, Institution Architecture: Avant-Garde Roots and Function”, in “Cultural Production in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Art Collectives, Institutions and Culture Industry” special issue, Re·bus – a journal of art history and theory 2, no.8 (Spring 2017): 1-34.

 
While not underestimating the ambivalence that the question ‘what is the avant-garde’ still has in the arts and the literary field today, if it is a historic category or an ongoing project, and if so, what defines this project, …

Exhibition Design of ‘Ecosmosis’

Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center Athens
29 May – 30 June 2012

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Stathoula Palivou
Location: Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center groundfloor gallery.
Surface area: 650 sqm.

Ecosmosis at the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center, along with Ethics/Aesthetics, Slow

Lina Stergiou, “Fabricating the Future” (Synopsis in Proceedings), International Art Architecture Symposium “What’s Architecture? What Architects Can Do?”, School of Architecture & Applied Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, May 18, 2015: A14-5.

 

Main auditorium, city campus, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou.
May 18, 14:00 ‘Fabricating the Future,’ Lina Stergiou.
May 19, 10:00-12:30  round up discussion, Lina Stergiou (moderator), Shen Kang, Liu Xiaohu, K.T. Ravindran, Zhao Chen, Alexander Brodsky, Ji Yuanzhen,  …

Exhibition of Ceramic Works, Urban Morphology, Spatial Dynamics, Shipai Village

E9 Exhibition Hall, Redtory Art & Design Factory
Tianhe district, Guangzhou
27 December 2014-14 January 2015

Dr Lina Stergiou, Associate Professor, workshop leader
Collaborating Professors from GAFA: Kim Saeng Hwa and Jin Tao

Exhibition of student work, outcome of the …

Lina Stergiou, “Praxis: The Everyday Not as Usual”, in The Idea of the Avant Garde And What It Means Today Vol.2, ed. Marc James Léger (Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2019), pp.220-4.

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In the context of ‘The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today’ of the edited volume, this essay considers the role that professionals play or could play to a polycentric rearrangement of values and …

Lina Stergiou, “Virus Matter: Covit-19 Spatial Politics of Body World Ecology”, in CAFAM Beijing Techne Triennial: Topologies of the Real and Art in Motion, CAFA Art Museum and ZKM – We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces, response to the postponed Triennial due to Covit-19 (from 30 March 2020, chronusartcenter). Invited by JODI, ICTI.ME.

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Taking into account scientific research and facts up to the date this essay was written (20 March 2020), the terms ‘SARS-CoV-2,’ ‘Covit-19,’ ‘Virus,’ and ‘Computer Virus’ are here examined, their properties, and the bodily and global effects of …

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Exhibition Design of ‘Athens Here And Now’

Benaki Museum Athens, Pireos Street Annex
8 June – 31 July 2011

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Aris Zambikos
Project architects team: Evelina Rempi
Chrysi Gousiou, Antonis Chazapis
Lighting: Diathlasis – Architectural Lighting

Athens Here and Now exhibition presents in …

Lina Stergiou, “ΟΤΑΝ ΤΑ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΑ ΦΩΤΑ ΣΒΥΝΟΥΝ. When the Olympic Lights Go Out,” Opinion, Kathimerini newspaper, August 26, 2005, 15

 
 

Lina Stergiou, “Bottom-up, left and right: Vocational Ethics, Creative Activism”, in AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics, ed. Lina Stergiou (Athens: Benaki Museum and Papasotiriou, 2011), pp.33-45.

 
This conference paper discusses activism and collaborative spatial practices within the framework of professional ethics and the notion of autonomy.…

Lina Stergiou, “ΑΘΗΝΑ ΕΔΩ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΡΑ. Athens Here and Now,” in special issue, Architektones – the Association of Greek Architects Journal 16 (October 2015): 8-9.

 
Οι περισσότερες θεωρίες κοινωνικής ψυχολογίας επικεντρώνονταν ως πρόσφατα στον εξατομικευμένο αυτοπροσδιορισμό, την αυτοσύλληψη με βάση την ατομική ταυτότητα. Πιο σύγχρονες διαπολιτισμικές αντιλήψεις έφεραν στο προσκήνιο την ιδέα ότι το συνδέομαι και το ανήκω δεν δημιουργούν μόνο συσχετισμούς μεταξύ …

Lina Stergiou, “ΑΘΗΝΑ, ΜΙΑ ΠΟΛΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΤΗΣ. ΜΠΟΡΟΥΜΕ; Athens, a City for its Citizens. Can We?,” Architektones – the Association of Greek Architects Journal 3 (June 2013): 7-8.

 
Σύμφωνα με τον Tomlinson (1991, 1999), η παραγωγή εθνικών πολιτιστικών ταυτοτήτων υπήρξε από τον 18ο αιώνα ο πιο επιτυχημένος τρόπος ενορχήστρωσης του ανήκω. Σήμερα αποτελεί μια μορφή πολιτιστικής ισχύος και εργαλείο αντίστασης στις ομογενοποιητικές δυνάμεις της παγκοσμιοποίησης, ενώ …

BLUMENHÄUSER Public Housing – Schönbergpark, Bern

European Architectural Competition

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architects: Roula Bakopannou, Petros Phokaides, Loukas Triantis
Consultants: Karolos Hanikian, Alexandros Bofilias, landscape architects

Location: Schönbergpark, Bern
Site: 6.136 sqm
Program: Housing of 2.000 sqm in new and existing buildings with apartments of …

AAO-Against All Odds project

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them.” A. Einstein

AAO is a mechanism that produces thoughts, ideas and actions. An interdisciplinary research and creative platform in architecture, design and art …

Lina Stergiou, “Bottom-up, left and right: Ecological models. Social practices,” talk at the American University of Beirut

Lina Stergiou, ed., Revelation (Athens: Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, 2003), English, 520 pages. ISBN 960-7980-49-2.

 
(book excerpts)
ATHENS D.O.E.S. competition Ephemeral Structures in the City of Athens, organized by the Hellenic Culture Organization S.A. in the context of the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, indicates a current political speculation on the city. For no

Exarchia: Conversations/Actions

Research Design Action Workshop
Athens City Center
2011

Director: Lina Stergiou.
Instructors: Lydia Matthews, Michael Morris, Lina Stergiou, Radhika Subramaniam

This workshop, organized jointly by AAO project and Parsons The New School For Design, New York, builds on the concept …

Exhibition Design of ‘Slow Down Rooms’

Benaki Museum Athens, Pireos Street Annex
8 June – 31 July 2011

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Aris Zambikos
Project architect team: Evelina Rempi
Chrysi Gousiou, Antonis Chazapis
Lighting: Diathlasis – Architectural Lighting

Slow Down Rooms exhibition presents 8 site-specific

Unit-by-Unit Archive Exhibition Design & Management for Architecture School

XLarch Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou
2016 – 2017

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Evelina Rempi

Surface area: 130 sqm and/in 2.250 sqm.

Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University’s Department of Architecture recently moved into a new building. In …

Lina Stergiou, “ΑΘΗΝΑ: ΝΕΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΣΤΑΣΗΣ. Athens: New Bets of a Symbolic Dimension”, Sunday edition of Kathimerini newspaper, June 30, 2013, 10.

 

Ceramic Works, Urban Morphology, Spatial Dynamics – Shipai Village

Research Design Workshop
11-17 December 2014

Dr Lina Stergiou, Associate Professor, workshop leader
Collaborating Professors from GAFA: Kim Saeng Hwa and Jin Tao

Shipai village, Guangzhou, becomes the focal area of a research and design study, where the vast changes …

‘Ecosmosis’ Exhibition

Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center Athens
29 May – 30 June 2012

Curator: Lina Stergiou. Collaborator: Maurice Benayoun, Osmotic World interactive art environment.

Ecosmosis explores the transdisciplinary field of experimental eco-spatial practices through works immersing as videos in an interactive art …

Lina Stergiou, “Fabricating the Future” (Talk Abstract and Program), International Art Architecture Symposium “What’s Architecture? What Architects Can Do?”, School of Architecture & Applied Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, May 18-19, 2015).

 

Lina Stergiou, “ΤΟ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΙΔΕΑΤΟ”, ΣΤΟ ΚΡΙΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΝΟΗΣΗ (ΑΘΗΝΑ: ΜΟΡΦΩΤΙΚΟ ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΕΣΗΕΑ, 2011), ΣΣ.103-20. “The Real and the Ideal,” in Crisis and Intellectuals (Athens: Cultural Foundation of the Journalists’ Union of Daily Newspapers of Athens Editions, 2011), pp.103-20.

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This paper develops the notions of the Real and the Ideal and their spatial manifestations, especially in the urban space of Athens during the 19th century and during the post-war period until today, by exploring, first, the urban,

Lina Stergiou, ed., Against All Odds: Ethics/Aesthetics (Athens: Benaki Museum and Papasotiriou, 2011), English/Greek, 433 pages. ISBN 978-960-491-026-7

 
Aiming at expanding architecture’s role within society through reshaping its social and ecological contributions to the cityscape and its social fabric, the two-year interdisciplinary project AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics includes urban and performance actions, conferences, experimental academic workshops and exhibitions. The

AAO: ETHICS / AESTHETICS International Conference 02

Benaki Museum Athens
6 – 7 June 2011

Following on the first International Conference of the ΑΑΟ : Ethics / Aesthetics, held at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the six Academic Workshops, and the Athens Here and Now

Arcadian Land Museum

Museum for the Promotion of Arcadian World Legacy and surrounding landscape formulation. Archeological site of Arcadia, Peloponnese
2011 – 2012

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Project architects: Stathoula Palivou, Dimitris Kardaras
Energy collaborating architect: Kostantia Misyri
Energy engineering consultant: Ion Kontiadis
3d …

AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics International Conference 01

Athens School of Fine Arts
19 – 20 January 2011

The first International Conference of AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics takes place on 19 & 20 January 2011 at the amphitheater of the Athens School of Fine Arts, 256 Pireos St., Athens. A …

WRAPPING MARBLE Offices for Small Music Company

Transformation of two apartments into offices for a small music company, Athens

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architects: Orestis Argiropoulos, Yannis Arvanitis, Nikos Koukoumis, Yannikos Vasiloulis

Wrapping Marble houses a small music company. Forming an ambiguous environment, a marble zone serves …

Exhibition Design of ‘AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics’

Benaki Museum Athens, Pireos Street Annex
8 June – 31 July 2011

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Aris Zambikos
Project architect team: Evelina Rempi
Chrysi Gousiou, Antonis Chazapis
Lighting: Diathlasis – Architectural Lighting

In the Museum’s groundfloor gallery, of 1200 …

Urban pilot actions

Athens City Center
9 -11 May 2011

Research-curator: Lina Stergiou

Athens Here and Now pilot actions rewrite the city center historic traces, explore the potentialities of participation and appropriation of public space by diverse social groups and empower minority ones. …

INSIDE-OUT

Transformation of a light industry interior into architectural lab, Athens

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Photos: Nikos Baxevanoglou; Studio Phobia: Stefanos Samios, Vagelis Somarakis

Inside-Out questions the notion of interiority and comfort by intertwining controversial textures and materials linked to exterior and …

A small house, a tree, and a roof

68 sqm house design, 600 sqm landscape design, Attica
2019 – 2020

Architect: Lina Stergiou
Collaborating architect: Olga Ioannou

Final design stage, draft 3d/2d drawings (project in progress)

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