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Today our guest is Anna Tsagkalou, Architect and Co-Founder of the MOR Studio in the Netherlands. Anna Tsagkalou is an architect, sustainability engineer and cofounder of MOR Studio. Anna graduated from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and continued her studies at TU Delft where she obtained an MSc in Building Technology. Her focus lies on developing an integrated design approach, where climate and energy performance- driven design are used as integral tools for creating sustainable architecture.

Today our guest is architect Ulf Meyer an, architect and writer based in Germany. Ulf is an architect, former partner at Ingenhoven Architects and later Senior Associate with HENN Architects in Germany. He is a graduate of the Technical University (TU) of Berlin, and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago he is the co-author of the book “The World’s Greenest Buildings”. Ulf in addition to being an architect, he is an architectural journalist and critic with over 1,000 articles and numerous books. Ulf has also taught architecture and lectured widely around the world Ulf was a keynote speaker at ECOWEK in Italy, Poland, Denmark and Israel, and has contributed as a co-author in the first ECOWEEK book.

Today our guest is architect Thomas Rau an entrepreneur, architect, innovator, inspirer and visionary based in the Netherlands. Thomas Rau motto is 'guided by the future' – ie. By what will be needed in the future and not by what is achievable at the moment. Thomas has been making a major contribution to the national and international discussion about sustainability, the use of renewable energy sources in architecture and the question of how to act in light of the current scarcity of raw materials for decades. With his architectural firm RAU, he has set up various innovations and new standards in the field of carbon-neutral, energy-neutral and energy-positive construction, and recently also for circular architecture. In 2010 he founded Turntoo, to create new business models for the circular economy. In 2017 he established Madaster Foundation to ensure that there will be no more construction waste in the future. Thomas Rau is annually ranked high in the Sustainable 100 of the daily newspaper Trouw. In 2013 he was named Architect of the Year and received the ARC13 Oeuvre Award from the trade magazine De Architect for his efforts over the past 20 years to promote and realize sustainable architecture across the board, as well as for 'his inspiring contribution to social and architectural agenda.' He is the author of the book Material Matters (2016) together with Sabine Oberhuber .

Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο συνδεόμαστε με την Κίνα και την Σανγκχάη και τον Αλέξανδρο Οικονόμου, Senior Architect στο γραφείο FTA.  Ένα γραφείο με 150 άτομα προσωπικό. O Aλέξανδρος μεγάλωσε στην Αθήνα και τα Εξάρχεια μέχρι τα 19 όταν και έφυγε για να δουλέψει και να σπουδάσει στο Μιλάνο μέχρι τα 28 του. Εκεί είχε την ευκαιρία να μάθει την γλώσσα και να σπουδάσει δίπλα από τους μεγάλους Μάστερς της σύνγχρονης αρχιτεκτονικής όπως ο CINO ZUCCI των CZA  και να γνωρίσει από κοντά την ιστορία και το παρόν μιας από τις πρωτεύουσες του Design μέσα από το Salone del Mobile και την πλούσια αρχιτεκτονική κληρονομιά.Επέστρεψε στην Ελλάδα για να κάνει το στρατιωτικό του και ξεκίνησε να εργάζεται σε διάφορα studios μεταξύ άλλων τα γραφεία KOIS ARCHITECTS, DECA, A&M ARCHITECTS... Παρόλο που το επίπεδο της δουλειάς στην Ελλάδα, στην Αρχιτεκτονική, είναι πολύ υψηλό και στέκεται επάξια στην διεθνή σκηνή  πάντα ήθελε να ζήσει στην Ασία για λίγο για να δεί και την μεγαλύτερη κλίμακα. Από όταν επισκέφθηκε το Τόκιο το 2010, μετά την πρώτη του αποφοίτηση αποφάσισε να πάει στην Κίνα καθώς ένοιωσε πώς θα μπορούσε να δεί διαφορετικές τυπολογίες και να συμμετάσχει σε ενδιαφέροντα projects στα οποία μόνο ένας μικρός αριθμός γραφείων μπορούσε να αγγίξει. Προς το παρόν ζεί στην Shanghai τα τελευταία 4.5 χρόνια και δουλεύει για διάφορες εταιρίες. Ξεκίνησε από Junior και τώρα έχει θέση Senior Architect και Team Leader σε μερικά έργα σε ένα πολύ ενδιαφέρον μέρος για να ζείς και να δουλεύεις όπου ο ρυθμός δεν έχει καμία σχέση με αυτόν της Ευρώπης. Έχει δουλέψει σε projects όπως ένας διαγωνισμός που σχεδίασε 30.000 μ2 για mixed use έργο σε μια πόλη λίγο έξω απο την Σανγκάη, την  Jiaxing Αυτή την στιγμή βρίσκεται σε ένα σταυροδρόμι προσωπικά καθώς σκέφτεται τα επόμενά του βήματα.

Spyros Hound is a talented and well known photographer of Art & Architecture Photography who went in Ukrain to photograph the people and the buildings during the War. He speaks about his experience and work to the Editor and Founder of ARCHISEARCH.gr Vassilios Bartzokas. 

GREEN TALKS : A new series of talks by ECOWEEK, Archisearch.gr and The Design Ambassador. Welcome to the GREEN TALKS, the new series of Podcasts co-hosted by Vassilios Bartzokas creator of ARCHISEARCH.GR & the DESIGN AMBASSADOR, and architect Elias Messinas creator of ECOWEEK. In this new series the duo interviews leading Architecture and Design personalities who share their experience and how they connect Design, Sustainability and Innovation in their work. Aris Kafantaris, Chief Project Manager at Kengo Kuma and Associates Architects in Tokyo.   Aris Kafanantaris is an architect, graduate of the National Technical University of Athens School of Architecture and the University of Tokyo School of Architecture. Aris joined Kuma research lab in 2011 and then Kengo Kuma & Associates Tokyo in 2014.   Kengo Kuma Associates Architects is an international award-winning practice based in Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai and Beijing, with more than 300 employees, established by architect Kengo Kuma in 1992. The office has designed a number of important commissions including the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics.  Kengo Kuma was the keynote speaker of ECOWEEK in Rome in 2012 and a co-author of the first ECOWEEK book published in 2016.

GREEN TALKS : A new series of talks by ECOWEEK, Archisearch.gr and The Design Ambassador. Welcome to the GREEN TALKS, the new series of Podcasts co-hosted by Vassilios Bartzokas creator of ARCHISEARCH.GR & the DESIGN AMBASSADOR, and architect Elias Messinas creator of ECOWEEK. In this new series the duo interviews leading Architecture and Design personalities who share their experience and how they connect Design, Sustainability and Innovation in their work. Today our guest is David Knafo architect of Knafo Limor Architects in  Israel. David Knafo is an architect co founder with Tagit Klimor of Knafo Klimor  Architects founded in 1980. The office operates from 2 branches in Tel  Aviv and in Haifa in Israel with a diverse team including architects,  urbanists and designers, having earned numerous awards for their  projects that include institutions, educational and sports facilities,  industrial and hi-tech plants, commercial and office, urban planning and  more.

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of GREEN TALKS. The Podcast series  powered by ECOWEEK and hosted by ARCHISEACH.gr. In this series we interview leading Architecture and Design personalities  who share their experience and how they connect between Design,  Sustainability and Innovation. I am Elias Messinas architect and the creator of ECOWEEK. I am joined by  Vassilis Bartzokas founder of ARCHISEARCH. This is a very special broadcast as for the first time we are joined by a live audience in real time. Today in our podcast we will discuss the new book by ECOWEEK ’15  Paths to Sustainability: from Innovation to Social Design’, edited by Elias  Messinas and Despoina Kouinoglou which came out early this year. The  publication was supported by Galenica SA, Greece. Despoina joins us today to speak about the book. Despoina is a landscape  architect based in London. I am proud to say that Despoina was an  ECOWEEK Associate for 5 years until last year. The book we will be discussing today is the fourth ECOWEEK book, and  perhaps the most up to date with the most current trends in sustainable  design, innovation, circularity in design, social design, and public  participation.

GREEN TALKS : A new series of talks by ECOWEEK, Archisearch.gr and The Design Ambassador. Welcome to the GREEN TALKS, the new series of Podcasts co-hosted by Vassilios Bartzokas creator of ARCHISEARCH.GR & the DESIGN AMBASSADOR, and architect Elias Messinas creator of ECOWEEK. In this new series the duo interviews leading Architecture and Design personalities who share their experience and how they connect Design, Sustainability and Innovation in their work. Jan Jongert is an architect graduated from the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam in 2003. He is the cofounder of Superuse Studios in Rotterdam a firm that designs interiors and buildings and develops strategies to facilitate the transition to a responsible society through circular practices at all levels. Jan develops tools and processes to realize tangible projects that empower local exchange and production, as an alternative to transporting and wasting resources, products and components around the globe. We will talk today about some of the key projects developed by Superuse, such as Villa Welpeloo (2009), Harvestmap (2012) Blue City (2016) and Pulsapp (2018).

Συνεχίζουμε με την θεματική ενότητα Business Of Architecture (ΒΟΑ) που εστιάζεται στην αθέατη πλευρά της αρχιτεκτονικής και στον ρόλο που διαδραματίζουν τα οικονομικά και το επιχειρείν σε αυτή.Ο σκοπός του σημερινού podcast είναι να κάνουμε μια εισαγωγή στο BOA να εξετάσουμε τις βασικές προκλήσεις που αντιμετωπίζει ένα αρχιτεκτονικό γραφείο, ποιός είναι ο ρόλος των οικονομικών και να ρίξουμε φώς στο ποιά είναι η επόμενη ημέρα. Σε συνέχεια λοιπόν του πρώτου επεισοδίου ο σκοπός του σημερινού podcast είναι να απαντήσουμε σε κάποια απο τα βασικά ερωτήματα που τέθηκαν σχετικά με την ανάπτυξη ενός γραφείου, το σωστό μέγεθος ενός γραφείου, τι πρέπει να κάνει ένα τυπικό γραφείο στο οικονομικό κομμάτι. Ονειρευόταν να γίνει αρχιτέκτονας, σπούδασε Μηχανολόγος Μηχανικός στο University of Manchester και έκανε ΜΒΑ στο Alba Graduate Business School. Τελικά η μοίρα τον έφερε εκεί που αρχικά ονειρευόταν, στην Αρχιτεκτονική. Ο Δημήτρης Μανωλάς είναι ένας απο τους κορυφαίους ειδικούς σε management και financial controlling αρχιτεκτονικών γραφείων και διευθύνει στην Ελλάδα την εταιρεία Precise.  Mε έδρα το Ισραήλ, και γραφεία στην Νέα Υόρκη, Λονδίνο, Τελ Αβίβ, και πλεον και στην Αθήνα, η εταιρεία Precise με εξειδίκευση στον Αρχιτεκτονικό Κλάδο παρέχει in-house υπηρεσίες Management και Financial Control σε πάνω απο 450 Αρχιτεκτονικά γραφεία σε όλο τον κόσμο.

GREEN TALKS : A new series of talks by ECOWEEK, Archisearch.gr and The Design Ambassador. Welcome to the GREEN TALKS, the new series of Podcasts co-hosted by Vassilios Bartzokas creator of ARCHISEARCH.GR & the DESIGN AMBASSADOR, and architect Elias Messinas creator of ECOWEEK. In this new series the duo interviews leading Architecture and Design personalities who share their experience and how they connect Design, Sustainability and Innovation in their work.  Today our guest is Maciej Siuda, architect and designer based in Poland. Maciej Siuda, an architect and a designer, whose remarkable projects, models, and sketches have travelled with him all over the world – From New York to Madrid and Tokyo, works at the intersection of various fields  and ideas and his projects are heavily influenced by humanistic reflection  and social sensitivity and sustainability.

GREEN TALKS : A new series of talks by ECOWEEK, Archisearch.gr and The Design Ambassador. Welcome to the GREEN TALKS, the new series of Podcasts co-hosted by Vassilios Bartzokas creator of ARCHISEARCH.GR & the DESIGN AMBASSADOR, and architect Elias Messinas creator of ECOWEEK. In this new series the duo interviews leading Architecture and Design personalities who share their experience and how they connect Design, Sustainability and Innovation in their work. Today our guest is Kristian Skovbakke Villadsen, Associate Partner and  Director at Jan Gehl in Denmark and China. Kristian is an architect operating in the span between political will and  urban design, which realizes people’s visions in the everyday life of cities. His focus is on social, economic and environmental sustainability, in projects that involve mobility, masterplanning, revitalization strategies and urban policies. Kristian has worked with a number of leading cities, developers, organizations and NGO’s, across Europe, North America and China. Kristian has contributed to several books, exhibitions and films and is a lecturer in a number of academic institutions. I am proud to say that Kristian was a keynote speaker at ECOWEEK in Copenhagen in 2013 and a co-author of the first ECOWEEK book that was published in 2016.