Nearly 3,000 participants have engaged with cutting-edge architectural discourse, facilitated by SHARE’s strong emphasis on the region’s rich architectural history and traditions. 88 prominent architects from these countries are members of the SHARE Architects Society, and three received SHARE OPERA OMNIA Awards celebrating their lifetime achievements: Nicos Valsamakis (Greece), Dimitris Antonakakis (Greece), Theoharis David (Cyprus)

ITALY – Venice

In Italy, SHARE Architects hosted three editions in Venice, including SHARE TALKS Venice 2019 and two SHARE X Conferences for Advanced Architecture in 2023 and 2024. These events, organized in collaboration with the Università Iuav di Venezia and Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori Venezia, under the patronage of the Federazione Regionale Ordini Architetti PPC Veneto and the Fondazione Degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia Di Venezia, brought together international leaders in architecture to explore groundbreaking research and its practical applications, and NEW into OLD in Architecture.

The 2019 SHARE TALKS event launched the book “Designing the Profile of the Future Architect” and featured global thought leaders like Ian Ritchie (UK), Emre Arolat (Turkey), and Paolo Brescia (Italy), Alberto Torselo (Italy), Habibeh Madjadbi (Iran), and Fokke Moerel (The Nederlands).

Key highlights of SHARE X Venice forums in 2023 and 2024 included over 500 attendees and tens of remarkable speakers from all over the world, including Pritzker Prize laureate Wang Shu, and Aga Khan laureate Emre Arolat, Alasdair Graham, Partner David Chipperfield (UK), Sebastien Ricard, Board Director at WilkinsonEyre (UK), and Ana Flor, Design Principal at Studio Gang (USA), Martha Tsigkari, Senior Partner Foster + Partners,(UK), Paolo Matteuzzi, Director ZAHA HADID Architects (UK), Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Partner Stefano Boeri Architetti,(Italy).

The board of SHARE X Conference reunites Luca Molinari, architect, critic, curator, full professor of Theory and Architectural Design at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and scientific director of M9 Museum, Roberto Beraldo, President of Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori Venezia, and Florin Mindirigiu, Founder and President of SHARE Architects.

GREECE – Athens

Since 2018, SHARE Architects has been instrumental in connecting the Greek architectural community with international peers through five editions of the SHARE Athens Forum, attended by nearly 1,400 participants and featuring over 120 speakers.

Key milestones include:

– 2018: A critical examination of contemporary Greek architecture.

– 2019: The SHARE Opera Omnia Award was presented to Nicos Valsamakis for his architectural contributions.

– 2020: The 3rd edition of SHARE Athens 2020 Forum was organized in partnership with the Hellenic Institute of Architecture in an online format, and reunited over 200 attendees. Speakers from the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, Iran, Romania, and Greece presented international and renowned projects.

– 2024: The SHARE Athens Forum ran alongside the SHARE Architecture Awards, the unique Gala of Central & South-Eastern Europe celebrating outstanding architecture projects. The annual SHARE Architecture Awards stand out as the first of its kind in the region. With the commitment to promote sustainability and community development, entries to the SHARE Architecture Awards were judged by a panel of esteemed industry experts, who evaluated submissions based on design excellence, sustainability, functionality, and innovation criteria.

CYPRUS – Nicosia

In Cyprus, SHARE Architects has organized four editions of the SHARE Nicosia Forum, connecting over 1000 participants with international architectural leaders. In partnership with the Cyprus Architects Association and the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK), these events have addressed themes like sustainable facades, urban living, and large-scale developments.

Distinguished international guests took the stage at the forum: Jan Gehl, Founder Gehl architects, Denmark/ Jan Knikker, Partner MVRDV, The Netherlands/ Roman Delugan, Founder Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Austria / John McElgunn, Partner Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partner, UK / Peter Murray, Chairman London Festival of Architecture, UK / Frederique Monjanel, CEO Jean Nouvel, France/ Sanjay Puri , Founder Sanjay Puri Architects, India/Maximiliano Arrocet, Director AL_A, UK/ Bernard Khoury, Founder DW5 – Lebanon, Martin GRAN, Partner Snøhetta, Norway/ Peter MURRAY, Co-founder New London Architecture, UK/ Armand PAARDEKOOPER OVERMAN, Associate Partner MECANOO, The Netherlands/ Sherif TARABISHY, Associate Partner Foster+Partners, UK/ Isabel VAN HAUTE, Partner Coldefy Architects, France.

Through its events in Italy, Greece, and Cyprus, SHARE Architects has celebrated the region’s architectural heritage while championing innovation and sustainability. Its initiatives continue to inspire dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, shaping the future of architecture in the Mediterranean and beyond.

Register your interest for 2025

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With the commitment to promote sustainability and community development, entries to the SHARE Architecture Awards are judged by a panel of esteemed industry experts, who evaluate submissions based on criteria such as design excellence, sustainability, functionality, and innovation. Applications can be submitted by architects and  beneficiaries for projects completed between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2023, in one of the countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, or The Czech Republic.

In line with SHARE’s fundamental goal of enhancing the recognition of Eastern European architects at the European and global levels, the SHARE Architecture Awards serve as a dynamic platform for showcasing and celebrating the architectural excellence found within this region. This initiative allows participants to directly interact with an esteemed panel of judges, offering them a unique opportunity to receive insightful feedback, expand their professional circles, and enhance their visibility in the architectural community. SHARE Architecture Awards is open to a wide range of categories, including residential, commercial, public spaces, and urban planning, said Eusebia Mindirigiu, Head of Communication SHARE Architecture Awards.

Expert Jury Panel

A distinguished panel of industry experts and thought leaders will evaluate submissions, ensuring a fair and comprehensive assessment of each project’s merits. There are three jury commissions for all six categories and a special jury that will decide the “Overall Winner”.

The honorable members of SHARE Architecture Awards Jury for each category:

President of the Jury

Carol Ross Barney, Founder of Ross Barney Architects, Laureate of the 2023
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, USA

CATEGORIES
CULTURAL – EDUCATIONAL, WORK PLACE – SALES, COMMERCIAL – INDUSTRIAL, HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE – SPORTS

Chair:

Martha Thorne, Senior Advisor, The OBEL Award; Former Executive Director, Pritzker

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Jury Members:

Francois Valentiny, Founder of VALENTINY hvp architects, Luxembourg
Fuensanta Nieto, Founding Partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Spain
Kerem Yazgan, Co-Founder of Yazgan Design Architecture, Turkey

Substitute Juror:

Giuseppe Farris, Founder of Studio Farris Architects, Belgium

CATEGORIES:
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE USE, MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL, RESTAURANTS & BARS, HOTELS

Chair:

Kamran Afshar Naderi, Iranian-Italian Artist, Designer, Architect; Founder of Memar

Magazine & Awards

Jury Members:

Pepe Gascon, Founder of Pepe Gascón Arquitectura, Spain
Diogo Brito, Founder of OODA – Architecture, Portugal
Fokke Moerel, Partner at MVRDV, The Netherlands

Substitute Juror:

Asaaf Kimmel, Partner at Kimmel Eshkolot Architects, Israel

CATEGORIES:
LANDSCAPE, HERITAGE – REFURBISHMENT IN ARCHITECTURE, CITY PLANNING – PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Chair:

Peter Murray, Chairman of New London Architecture and the London Society

Jury Members:

Greta Tresserra, Founder of Bamboo HUB – Bamboo for Sustainable Development, Spain
Manuela Gatto, Director ZAHA HADID Architects, UK
Roberto Beraldo, Founder of Beraldo & Marras architetti associati, Italy

Substitute Juror:

Johannes Baar-Baarenfels, Founder of Johannes Baar-Baarenfels Architecture, Austria

The registration period for the Annual SHARE Architecture Awards closes on 31 of May. The jury will present a short list of nominations on July 1st and winners of the SHARE Architects Awards will be announced on 8 October in Athens. One prize will be awarded for each of the 6 defined categories, as well as the special “Overall Winner” award which represents the highest honors of the competition.

For more information on submission guidelines, categories, and registration details, please visit   https://awards.share-architects.com.

About the organizer:

SHARE Architects’ mission is centred on promoting communication, sharing and exchanging values, knowledge and best practices in architecture.

Over the past 26 years, the SHARE Architects’ Forums have become an important networking platform for architects and contractors in Central and South-Eastern Europe. SHARE provides a useful framework for knowledge and understanding of the diversity of modern architectural phenomena. SHARE Architects events are presently taking place in 16 countries and have developed a community of over 50,000 professionals.

Contact:

Head of Communication

Eusebia Mindirigiu
eusebia.mindirigiu@abplus.ro

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The conference on Healthcare Architecture and Design aims to provide architects, engineers, healthcare executives and other interested professionals with the latest available information which will assist them in planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining health facilities.

The conference brings together stakeholders and decision-makers from all fields related to the construction and healthcare sector, to share transdisciplinary experiences based on the case studies of hospital projects. The event promotes best practices, knowledge, innovation and thought leadership across the built environment.

Florin Mindirigiu, Co-founder of SHARE Architects, about the conference:

The SHARE Talk – Experts’ Meeting on Hospital Architecture will be addressed to an audience of specialists only and will bring together multidisciplinary experts in the field of healthcare architecture and design. The event program alternates between case studies on Greek and international hospitals presented by mixed teams of specialists (architects, engineers, physicians) and extensive ‘’Ask an expert’’ sessions with invited experts.

The participant’s backgrounds are as follows: Leaders of all disciplines surrounding planning and building in the health care sector; Political decision makers and leading public officials from building and health departments; Decision makers and visionaries of the health care sector; Representatives of industry and technology of the building and healthcare sector; Students and postgraduates of the disciplines architecture, urban development, medicine and health sciences.

First announced speakers

Charry C. Bougadellis, Founder AETER Architects, Greece (New General Hospital of Chalkida); Marina Georgiou Dionisiou Founder MDG Architects, Cyprus (Nicosia Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (NHRC) – Saint Loucas); Raluca Șoaită, Founder TESSERACT Architecture, Romania (Hospital Marie Curie); Anna Assana, Principal A&S Architects, Greece (Onassis National Transplant Center); Constantinos Constanti, Founder Constanti Architects – Ena Pros Ekato, Cyprus (Hadassah Health Park in Lakatamia); Panagiotis Tavaniotis, Co-Founder BETAPLAN, Greece (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Hospitals); Christian Karlsson, Karlsson Architects , Denmark (New psychiatric hospital in Kristiansand); Kerem Yazgan, Co-Founder Yazgan Design Studio, Turkey (Sakura City Hospital).

The event is curated and organized by SHARE Architects, the leading networking platform for architecture professionals in Central and South-Eastern Europe and is part of the SHARE Talk series of expert meetings initiated in 2021. Previous meetings on healthcare architecture have brought together a top-class plenary of speakers from both the medical and architecture-planning spectrums, including internationally renowned speakers such as: Didier Houssin, President of AP-HP International, university professor of surgery, Director General of Health at the Ministry of Health France (2005-2011); Kerem Yazgan, Co-founder Yazgan Studio Design; Mariano Efron, Partner Architecture Studio, France.

SHARE Architects – main figures in Greece

Since 2018, SHARE Architects has welcomed 1182 attendees and 96 speakers throughout the four editions of the International Architecture Forum SHARE in Athens, organized together with the Hellenic Institute of Architecture. 27 Greek architectural personalities are members of the SHARE Architects Society, an exclusive group within SHARE Architects network that brings together 603 international architectural leaders from 42 countries.

Registration

https://membership.share-architects.com/Events/Home/Details/5e4993ea-b910-46da-8302-d640978b1133

Ticket for specialists – 75 euro

Tickets valid for architects, health facility planners, installation engineers, MEP consultants, physicians, hospital managers, and project management consultants.

Ticket for suppliers – 200 euro

Tickets for representatives of companies supplying building materials, building management systems, and medical technology for hospitals.

SHARE Architects Network – Connecting architects and contractors in Central and South Eastern Europe

SHARE Architects Forums have become, over the past 25 years, an essential networking platform for architects and contractors in Central and Southeastern Europe. SHARE creates an effective platform for knowledge and understanding of the diversity of the architectural phenomenon of the contemporary architecture. Currently, SHARE Architects events take place in 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and the SHARE Architects community counts more than 50,000 members from all over the world.

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Among the international speakers who lectured on the SHARE Athens Forum’s stage are Maurizio Meossi, Associate Director ZAHA HADID, UK, Christian Sandor Tschersich Director LAVA – Laboratory For Visionary Architecture, Germany, Adrian Soare, Architect, Senior Managing Partner Cumulus, Romania, Andrzej Bulanda, Partner, Bulanda Mucha Architekci, Poland, Eraclis Papachristou Founder E.papachristou Architects Llc, Cyprus, Yiannis Armeftis, Founding Partner Armeftis Partners, Cyprus, Stella Nikolakaki, Senior Architect Unstudio, Netherlands, Thierry Damez-Fontaine, Director 2portzamparc, France, and Alireza Taghaboni, Founder Nextoffice, Iran.

As always, the SHARE Forum became the stage for excellence in architecture and offered great opportunities to get to know the vision of outstanding architects and establish high-level professional relationships.

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Το SHARE Athens 2022 είναι αφιερωμένο σε έργα μεγάλης κλίμακας, τη βιωσιμότητα μέσω του σχεδιασμού και το μέλλον της αστικής ζωής.

Οι Έλληνες αρχιτέκτονες που συμμετέχουν στην εκδήλωση είναι:

Ηλίας Παπαγεωργίου (Pila Studio), Θωμάς Δοξιάδης (Doxiadis+), Σοφία Τσιράκη (Biris-Tsiraki Architects), Θανάσης Μάνης (Manis Office), Βαγγέλης Στυλιανίδης (Stylianidis Architects), Αριάδνη Βοζάνη (Av Architects), Κωνσταντίνος Καραμπατάκης (K-Studio), Κωσταντής Κίζης (Kizis Studio), Θανάσης Πολυζωίδης (Topio 7), Σπύρος Καραγιάννης (Subu), Άννα Ιωαννίδου Κατή (Eckersley O’Callaghan), Ηλίας Κωνσταντόπουλος (Πρόεδρος Ελληνικού Ινστιτούτου Αρχιτεκτονικής),Τζούλια Τσαλίκη (Πρόεδρος ΣΑΔΑΣ Αττικής).

Η τιμητική διάκριση SHARE OMNIA απονέμεται φέτος στον αρχιτέκτονα Δημήτρη Αντωνακάκη (Atelier 66) για τη συνολική προσφορά του στην αρχιτεκτονική.

Συμμετέχουν επίσης ως βασικοί ομιλητές:

Ο Thierry Damez-Fontaine, partner στο αρχιτεκτονικό γραφείο 2portzamparc – με συνιδρυτές τον κάτοχο του Pritzker Prize Christian de Portzamparc και την Elizabeth de Portzamparc – είναι υπεύθυνος για αστικά έργα ή έργα με έντονα αστικά προβλήματα. Θα παρουσιάσει το Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο στην πόλη Suzhou της Κίνας και το Shangyin Opera House στη Σαγκάη, δύο έργα με παρόμοια προγράμματα αλλά σε πολύ διαφορετικά περιβάλλοντα.

Ο Maurizio Meossi, Αναπληρωτής Διευθυντής του γραφείου Zaha Hadid Architects, έχει εργαστεί σε μερικά από τα μεγαλύτερα οικιστικά έργα σε όλο τον κόσμο, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Ιταλίας, της Αυστραλίας, του Μεξικού και της Τουρκίας. Στο SHARE Athens 2022, θα παρουσιάσει πολεδομικά πρότζεκτ του γραφείου, με έμφαση στα σχέδια για την μεικτής χρήσης περιοχή Zugló-Városközpont στη Βουδαπέστη.

Η Στέλλα Νικολακάκη, Senior Architect UNStudio, είχε τη γενική επιμέλεια σε διάφορα έργα του γραφείου, κυρίως στο τελεφερίκ του Γκέτεμποργκ και στο Bridge Tower στη Βαρσοβία.Το UnStudio διαθέτει έξι διεθνή γραφεία στο Άμστερνταμ, τη Σαγκάη, το Χονγκ Κονγκ, τη Φρανκφούρτη, το Ντουμπάι και τη Μελβούρνη και περισσότερους από 300 υπαλλήλους από 27 χώρες.

Το SHARE Forum διοργανώνεται από τον φορέα SHARE Architects και το Ελληνικό Ινστιτούτο Αρχιτεκτονικής με την υποστήριξη των εταιριών Şişecam Flat Glass, Alumil, Zumtobel, Isomat και Rumming.

Εγγραφή

Τα εισιτήρια κυμαίνονται από 10 ευρώ για νέους αρχιτέκτονες κάτω των 30 ετών, 29 ευρώ για μέλη του Ελληνικού Ινστιτούτου Αρχιτεκτονικής ή του ΣΑΔΑΣ και 59 ευρώ για τους υπόλοιπους επισκέπτες. Για ηλεκτρονική εγγραφή επισκεφτείτε τη διεύθυνση https://membership.share–architects.com/Events

* Τα SHARE Forums έχουν γίνει, τα τελευταία 25 χρόνια, μια σημαντική πλατφόρμα δικτύωσης για αρχιτέκτονες και κατασκευαστές στην Κεντρική και Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη καθώς δημιουργούν ένα αποτελεσματικό πλαίσιο για τη  γνώση και την κατανόηση της διαφορετικότητας του αρχιτεκτονικού φαινομένου της σύγχρονης αρχιτεκτονικής. Οι εκδηλώσεις SHARE λαμβάνουν χώρα σε 16 χώρες και η κοινότητα των SHARE Architects αριθμεί περισσότερα από 50.000 μέλη από όλο τον κόσμο.

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Lectures will be held in Greek and English, with simultaneous translation into Greek.

Highlights

SHARE Opera Omnia Award Ceremony

The work of architect Dimitris Antonakakis, Atelier 66, will be celebrated with the award ceremony of the SHARE OMNIA distinction for noteworthy accomplishments in the fields of architecture.

ZAHA Hadid Architects – UK, UNStudio – The Netherlands and 2portzamparc – France will give keynote lectures.

German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai presented by LAVA – Laboratory for Visionary Architecture

NextOffice representative of contemporary Iranian architecture, awarded at World architecture festival

Special networking opportunities with leading architects from Romania, Poland, Cyprus.

Distinguished Greek architectural personalities take the stage at SHARE Athens 2022 Forum:

Ilias Papageorgiou, Principal At Pila Studio, Thomas Doxiadis, Director Doxiadis+, Sofia Tsiraki, Co-Founder Biris-Tsiraki Architects, Thanassis Manis, Founder Manis Office, Vaggelis Stylianidis, Founder Stylianidis Architects, Ariadni Vozani, Founder Av Architects, Konstantinos Karampatakisco-Founder K-Studio, Costandis Kizis, Director Kizis Studio,Thanasis Polyzoidis, Topio 7, Spyros Karagiannis, Founder Subu, Anna Ioannidou Kati, Facade engineer Eckersley O’Callaghan, Julia Tsaliki, President of Sadas Pea Department Of Attika

Chairman and moderators

Elias Constantopoulos, Chairman SHARE Forum, President Of Hellenic Institute Of Architecture

Costandis Kizis, Director Kizis Studio, Vaggelis Stylianidis, Founder Stylianidis Architects

Register here:

https://membership.share-architects.com/Events/Home/Details/b5b3bc33-318a-4730-8cfe-9c5331574a4e

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Το 2001 ίδρυσε το Urban Cult Architecture Studio και στη συνέχεια, το 2006, το SYAA μαζί με την Eliza Yokina. Από το 2017 είναι συνιδρυτής και διευθύνων σύμβουλος (CEO) του Cumulus Architecture Office, μιας μεγάλης αρχιτεκτονικής εταιρείας με έδρα το Βουκουρέστι.

Ο Adrian Soare θαυμάζει ένα καλοφτιαγμένο αρχιτεκτονικό ή αστικό περιβάλλον, τη φύση και αναζητά την απλότητα και το νόημα σε κάθε δημιουργική του χειρονομία. Ως εννοιολογικός αρχιτέκτονας, κάθε φορά που εμπλέκεται σε ένα έργο, επιδιώκει να καταλάβει την ουσία του, μελετώντας το πολιτιστικό, φυσικό και ιστορικό πλαίσιο. Είναι εξειδικευμένος σε έργα κατοικιών και ξενοδοχείων, έργα μικτής χρήσης και το σχεδιασμό του δημόσιου χώρου. Η επαγγελματική του δραστηριότητα έχει βραβευθεί με πολλά βραβεία και υποψηφιότητες σε εθνικούς και διεθνείς διαγωνισμούς και εκθέσεις.

Βραβεία:

The Marmorosch Hotel by Autograph Collection, Bucharest

Business Incubator office building, Brasov

Romanian Pavilion at World Expo 2020 Dubai

ELBA Industrial Platform mixed use development, Timisoara

Το CUMULUS είναι ένα αρχιτεκτονικό γραφείο με μεγάλη τεχνογνωσία και δεξιότητες για την παροχή ολοκληρωμένων υπηρεσιών σχεδιασμού – αρχιτεκτονικής, πολεοδομίας και βιομηχανικού σχεδιασμού. Το γραφείο έχει αναλάβει μεγάλα οικιστικά έργα, ξενοδοχεία, γραφεία, βιομηχανικές περιοχές, έργα αποκατάστασης και αναδιαμόρφωσης δημόσιων χώρων αλλά και εσωτερικής διακόσμησης. Όλες οι υπηρεσίες προσφέρουν στους επενδυτές την ευκαιρία να έχουν τον έλεγχο του κόστους του κτιρίου, μέσω της υπηρεσίας ελέγχου κόστους των έργων σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Επιπλέον, οι αρχιτέκτονες του γραφείου CUMULUS σχεδιάζουν υπεύθυνα για τους πελάτες τους, αλλά και για τις κοινότητες όπου πραγματοποιούνται τα έργα.

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This year’s 2nd edition of SHARE Athens was organized by the PROEVENT Cultural Association in collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Architecture and The Consultative Council of Architects in Central and Eastern Europe (CCA-CEE). 

Official Opening Session 

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Chairman

• Arch. Elias CONSTANTOPOULOS, President at the Hellenic Institute of Architecture – GREECE

Presidents of Architects Associations

• Arch. Șerban ȚIGĂNAȘ, UIA General Secretary and SHARE Society President
• Arch. Wassim NAGHI, President at the Union of Mediterranean Architects – LEBANON
• Arch. Tomaž KRIŠTOF, president at the SLOVENIAN Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning
• Arch. Christos CHRISTODOULOU, President at Cyprus Architects Association

SHARE Society members

• Florin MINDIRIGIU, President PROEVENT ASSOCIATION, Event Director
• Arch. Evangelos LYROUDIAS, Past President SADAS
• Arch. Esra Aydınoğlu Product Manager for Architectural Glass, Şişecam Flat Glass
• Arch. Andreea MOVILĂ ROBU, Publisher, SHARE Society

Great Speaker Presentation: Francisco MANGADO – SPAIN

Our Great Speaker for SHARE Athens 2019, Arch. Francisco Mangado, founder at Francisco Mangado – SPAIN, delighted our audience with an impactful presentation titled “Left Hand Architecture”. In the eyes of Francisco Mangado, architecture is the answer to a problem. It is also a tool that can shape situations and circumstances. With an amazing list of prizes, publications, projects and a documentary movie about his work – “Architecture with the left hand” – the architect emphasizes that his own architectural approach has the ability to inspire beauty. Materiality becomes an esthetic method to create emotions and states of mind, thus adapting architecture to the surrounding environment.

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Keynote Speakers & Presentations 

“Architectural Experimentations & Practice”, Arch. Christos PASSAS/ ZAHA HADID – UK

One of our keynote speakers for SHARE Athens 2019, Arch. Christos PASSAS, associate director for ZAHA HADID – UK covered a presentation titled “Architectural Experimentations & Practice”. For Christos Passas, architecture is more than a living space, it is a practice that concerns itself with the exploration of spatial concepts, experimenting with systems, geometries, and proportions. In the eyes of the architect, architecture is a wonderful exploration of the human mind, a medium through which civilization propagates itself through time.

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“It doesn’t make sense to look too much into the past or into the future, in outer space or in inner space. But what makes a lot of sense is to look deeper at now.”

“MVRDV: Agenda on Tourism”, Jan KNIKKER / MVRDV – The NETHERLANDS 

Jan KNIKKER, Partner at MVRDV – The NETHERLANDS and one of our keynote speakers for SHARE Athens held a presentation titled “MVRDV: Agenda on Tourism”, emphasizing on the fact that tourism is everywhere. It is a delight for cities and it can turn into a dystopia. 

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MVRDV and The Why Factory have done many research studies and projects related to tourism and cities; one of which turned the destiny of the city around. These projects and the implications of tourism have been discussed and debated throughout Jan Knikker’s lecture.

Arch. Dietmar EBERLE, Baumschlager Eberle Architects – AUSTRIA 

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Keynote Speaker for SHARE Athens 2019, Arch. Dietmar EBERLE believes that a building should be multifunctional and adaptive, should maintain the relation of the inside with the outside, the user and the observer. He also sees architecture as five different technical overlapping systems related to five very different timeframes. “We are used to speaking about space and architecture, but we are not speaking about time. To create the future for our society the key is to talk about time.” 

“The 20th-century values are no more strongly anchored in nowadays life. The spaces that were created in the past have to be adapted, changed and adjusted to the 21st century`s fast and dramatic change of values. As buildings are the ones that shape and influence our working and resting environments, the architects are the ones responsible for speaking and thinking in terms of time.”

Plenary Session I

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Moderated by Arch. Christina PAPADIMITRIOU, Director for the Hellenic Institute of Architecture – GREECE, we divided Plenary Session I into 8 sub-sessions. The first speaker on stage was Arch. Christos CHRISTODOULOU, President for the Cyprus Architects Association with a speech on “Urban Vs Rural Vs Coastal: Contemporary Architectural Interventions”. 

Upcoming next was Arch. Ilias PAPAGEORGIOU, founder of PILA – GREECE, who covered a presentation titled “Regenerate: history continues”. Ilias’s work has been internationally recognized, having been awarded as a Curbed Groundbreaker, Architects under 50. His work has been widely published and exhibited in institutions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York and the Benaki Museum in Athens.

“Dialogue between Architecture and Technology”, Melike Altinisik Architects – TURKEY

Arch. Melike ALTINISIK, Founder and Principal Designer at Melike Altinisik Architects – TURKEY, covered an insightful presentation on the dialogue between architecture and technology. Dedicated to developing an innovative approach towards architecture, urbanism, and design, the award-winning architect talked about some of her office’s most successful projects, including The Istanbul Çamlıca TV and Radio Tower (Istanbul, Turkey – Underconstruction). 

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Plenary Session II

Moderated by Arch. Evangelos LYROUDIAS, Consultant at ALUMIL & Past President of SADAS – PEA, we divided Plenary Session II at SHARE Athens 2019 into 7 sub-sessions. 

“Out of Control: Our Experience on the Greek Islands”, Arch. Alexandros VAITSOS, decaARCHITECTURE – GREECE

Internationally recognized architecture practice decaARCHITECTURE – GREECE, seeks insight within context to make buildings, landscapes, and objects. The work of the office amplifies the senses, engages with interdisciplinary intelligence, subverts convention and strives to create experiences with value beyond expectation. Based in Athens, Arch. Alexandros VAITSOS, the founder of the practice, joined us on the SHARE stage with a presentation titled “Out of Control: Our Experience on the Greek Islands” covering some of the decaARCHITECTURE’s most successful projects. 

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Lighting Design Session – Colin BALL, Lighting director at BDP – UK

Arch. Colin BALL, Lighting director at BDP – UK has had a special lighting session on lighting design at SHARE Athens 2019. Among some of the works discussed, we mention the Palace of Westminster, UCL and the University of Cambridge. Colin has a particular interest in developing innovative techniques for lighting within World Heritage venues plus Carbon Exemplary projects for cutting edge science institutes. From a background education in architecture, the architect has worked as a Lighting Designer for 19 years with 10 years of experience at Speirs. As an organizer of London’s Light & Film Festival, Colin also delivers talks on parallels of Lighting between Films, Theatre & Architecture.

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Plenary Session III

Following a well-deserved coffee break and networking session, Plenary Session III at SHARE Athens 2019 continued with a presentation titled “Concert Hall of the Athens Conservatory: an adaptive Restoration”, held by one of our conference moderators, Arch. Tilemachos ADRIANOPOULOS, founder at Tense Architecture Network – GREECE. 

Up next on stage was Arch. Stephan BUERGER, Co-founder and Partner at Buerger Katsota Architects – GREECE with a presentation titled ”RE: work”. Stephan Buerger has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the University of Patras, the Career Discovery Programme at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architecture Center and the School of Architecture at Lund University. Before establishing his own practice Stephan gained professional experience working for EDAW, Shanghai Foster and Partners, London, Arakawa and Madeleine Gins, New York, Roland Rainer Architects, Vienna.

“Glass houses under the sun” – Arch. Andreas VARDAS, Vardas Studio – CYPRUS

 Guest speaker for SHARE Athens 2019 and founder of Vardas Studio – CYPRUS, Arch. Andreas VARDAS joined us on stage with a presentation titled “Glass Houses under the Sun” in which the main focus was on AB House. Throughout the design process, architects Andreas Vardas and Birute Varda (Lithuania) were determined to capture the essence of their architectural principles and make the most out of the creative freedom that comes with designing for themselves. The concept was born out of the combination of two materials often found near this location:  concrete tube pipe sections and metal sheets. 

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Plenary Session III concluded with a presentation by Arch. Irene Tsiakka, Owner at MIPECO Advanced Buildings Solutions – GREECE titled “SHADE & SHAPE”. 

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Plenary Session IV

Last but not least, Plenary Session IV kickstarted with an introductory speech held by Arch. Elias CONSTANTOPOULOS, SHARE Athens Chairman, President of Hellenic Institute of Architecture, Professor at Department of Architecture at the University of Patras followed by SHARE Fellow, Arch. Vassilis SGOUTAS, Co-founder at SGOUTAS Architects – GREECE. 

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Throughout this session, we’ve had the honor to award the SHARE Opera Omnia Distinction to world-renowned architect Nicos Valsamakis; the keeper of a modernist approach, with a touch of synergy between rationalism and idealism and the creator of a minimalist architecture that embodies the needs of the user of the building. Having almost 300 buildings correlated to his name, all of them have encapsulated the purity specific to his designs.

The award was granted on behalf of SHARE Society members Serban Tiganas – UIA General Secretary and SHARE Society President, Mindirigiu Florin, founder of SHARE Architects, and Elias CONSTANTOPOULOS – President at the Hellenic Institute of Architecture.

Partner & Sponsor Presentations 

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• “New Technologies in Facade Design” – Ksenofon Tirovol, Şişecam Flat Glass
• “ALUMIL – Bridging technology to architects” – Arch. Evangelos LYROUDIAS, Consultant, ALUMIL 
• “Vision meets reality with ACP” – Architect Athanasia VARELA, technical sales engineer at ELVAL COLOUR
• Zumtobel Group:  ”ONE technology – infinite possibilities” – Denis BIŠKUP, Regional Marketing Manager SEE at Zumtobel Group
• VITEX: “Sustainability in Architecture: LEED v.4 & Ultra-durable paints” – Aristoteles NIKOLAKOPOULOS, R & D Manager at VITEX

The workshops 

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• GRAPHISOFT: “Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) on GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD platform” – Tibor SZOLNOKI, Training and Certification Team Leader, Graphisoft SE.
• ZUMTOBEL GROUP : ”basicDIM – Bluetooth control of Luminaires” – Denis BIŠKUP, Regional Marketing Manager SEE at Zumtobel Group
• “LIGHTING FUTURE”: “Predictions and visions for the future of lighting” – Lighting Arch. Eleftheria DEKO, Founder at Eleftheria Deko Lighting Design & Lighting Arch. Theodore KONTORIGAS, Lighting Architect at  Theodore Kontorigas Architectural Lighting Design.
• ŞIŞECAM FLAT GLASS WORKSHOP: “Choosing the Right Glass With Mobile Applications” – Ksenofon TIROVOL, Şişecam Flat Glass Key Account Executive. 
• “NEW IN OLD”: “Contemporary Architecture and technology”, moderated by Arch. Evangelos LYROUDIAS, Consultant at ALUMIL / Past President SADAS – PEA and  Arch. Vassilis SGOUTAS, UIA Honorary President / Co-founder SGOUTAS Architects, Greece. 

Book Launch – “Designing the Profile of the Future Architect”

Upcoming next was a presentation on our recently launched book, “Designing the Profile of the Future Architect” – The first editorial project of SHARE Society, a collection of thoughts, architectural manifestoes, and interviews to which 100 architects from 27 countries have contributed; all of them former speakers at the SHARE conferences during 2018 – 2019. 

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The session was moderated by Arch. Andreea ROBU-MOVILĂ, one of the book editors, and it included a special discussion on stage where we’ve welcomed main editor Arch. Șerban ȚIGĂNAȘ, SHARE Society President, General Secretary of UIA. 

Innovation Products Exhibition

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The innovation products exhibition of Şişecam Flat Glass, Alumil, Zumtobel Group,Graphisoft -TOP Software LTD, Elval Colour, VITEX, DROMEAS.

About SHARE Architects 

SHARE Architects, a project developed and organized by ABplus Events and Pro Event Association, seeks to connect people through architecture on an international level via a series of interactive conferences spread across different cities in Central Eastern Europe.

The aim of SHARE is to bring excellence in architecture by promoting best practices, transferring know-how, exchanging ideas, ultimately bringing architects, urban planners, designers & constructors together under the same roof, for one day. The spirit of SHARE circles around the idea of sharing concepts and initiatives, while bringing architectural matters closer to a more socially sensitive level.

A big “thank you” to all of our partners and sponsors: Hellenic Institute of Architecture, ŞIŞECAM FLAT GLASS, ALUMIL, Zumtobel Group, Elval Colour, VITEX, GRAPHISOFT, ek – Architecture Plus Design, archisearch,gr. ktirio.gr. 

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SHARE Opera Omnia Award at SHARE Athens 2019!

At this year’s 2nd edition of SHARE Athens 2019, on November 26, we will have the honor to award the SHARE Opera Omnia Distinction to architect Nicos VALSAMAKIS – GREECE for his noteworthy accomplishments in the field of architecture, as well as for the role played in developing significant architectural projects throughout his career.

The keeper of a modernist approach, with a touch of synergy between rationalism and idealism, Nicos Valsamakis is the creator of a minimalist architecture that embodies the needs of the user of the building. Having almost 300 buildings correlated to his name, all of them have encapsulated the purity specific to his designs. 

Born in Athens, Greece, he studied at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens from 1945 to 1947, and from 1950 to 1953. He is considered to be one of the most important voices in greek architecture. He founded his studio right after he completed his studies and since then he kept on creating amazing architecture touched by a glimpse of elegance. He is the first Greek architect to be nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1992, with Daidalos, a tourist development for Robinson Club on the island of Kos. He describes his activity in simple words, rarely speaking about his works, Valsamakis considers that architecture should be felt, not explained.  

In 2005, at his lecture in the Athens Concert Hall, one of the few lectures he has given, he pointed out that a building must serve a function, and if the building is not functional it’s the purpose it’s meaningless. Therefore, Valsamakis is a functionalist, he gives back architecture to the people, and he centers the human perception in the middle of his designs. 

Valsamakis is guided by the idea that creativity is not as important as the architect’s skill or lack of skill too,, exhaust the limits of his idea’’. For him, architects should be able to solve architectural problems, he is an advocate of moderation and overall planning and studying every aspect of his work, generating a unity between function, integration into the environment, the search of character criteria, the type of building, type of the construction and many others. The constant attributes of his works are his predilection for compact plans which have the possibilities of unifying enclosed and open spaces, a reinterpretation of the traditional features such the courtyard, atrium and the arcade and the harmonious proportions he keeps on using that helps to contour a unity and a personal style. 

He has designed a considerable number of public and privately-owned buildings, banks, tourist complexes, schools as well as private villas. 

Amongst his most significant projects are the two villas in Anavyssos (1961), the Alpha Bank Headquarters on Stadiou Street (1978-90), the ‘Latsis’ Athens College in Kantza (1986-95), the E.D.P. Centre for the Commercial Bank in Holargos (1990-97), the ‘Daidalos’ Tourist complex on the island of Kos (1999), the ‘Amalia’ Hotels throughout Greece, the residences in Vouliagmeni (1994) and Kilada (2001), and the A.T.E. Insurance Companies Headquarters Building, 173 Syngrou Avenue, Nea Smyrni (1997-2009). 

The Credit Bank ( today Alpha Bank 1981-1990), one of the architectural landmarks of postwar Athens, was a turning point in Valsamakis career. The building represents an innovative conciliation of his rational, minimalist approach combined with the historic character of the site. The pure white Amalia Hotel in Olympia shows the architect’s highest level of empathy towards plasticity, creating a landmark in Aegean architecture and bringing out the ancient greek omen.

He also imposed in residential architecture, with projects such as the house in Philothei- the first application of total design in post-war Greece, the house in Anavissos the house in Koilada, a stunning, private residence he completed in 2006, which is situated on a peninsula overlooking the Gulf of Argolida in Greece, House in Antiparos, and many others. 

Article contributor: Andreea Diaconu

House in Koilada, Greece. Constructed by Domotekton. Photo © Nicos Valsamakis.

House in Anavissos, Attica, Greece. Photo © Dimitris Kalapodas.

House in Filothei, Attica, Greece. Photo © Dimitris Kalapodas.

House in Filothei, Attica, Greece. Photo © Dimitris Kalapodas.

House in Antiparos, Greece. Photo © Nicos Valsamakis.

Alpha Bank Headquarters on Stadiou Street

Amalia Hotel in Olympia

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