Haris Biskos
Architect – urban planner
Upcoming speeches
Nikos Siapkaras
In Votanikos — an extensive former industrial zone with limited public activity until recently — the new Panathinaikos stadium introduces an urban catalyst that activates a long-dormant development cluster.
Its operation will draw thousands of visitors, employees, and suppliers, generating steady flows of people and activity in an area where daily movement was previously minimal and tied to specific auxiliary functions.
Speakers:
Stephan Buerger — Director, buerger katsota architects
Giorgos Pantazis — Athens Division Director, Samaras & Associates Consulting Engineers
Thanos Danilof — Director, DANILOF studio light + perception
Konstantinos Aloupogiannis — Project Director, Hill International, Inc.
What is the significance of repurposing inactive infrastructures to meet new needs, and what challenges and opportunities arise in the transformation of such buildings?
Speakers:
Dimitris Karampatakis — Founding Member & Creative Director, K–Studio
Panos Kostoulas — Architect & Founding Member, Boulouki
Houiti Konstantinidou — Director of Hospitality, Cultural Heritage & Events, House of Metaxa
Konstantinos Karantzoulis — Landscape & Surveying Engineer – Route Designer at Paths of Greece
Liknon is a series of gentle interventions within the century-old vineyard of the Metaxa estate in Samos — elements that act more as landscape infrastructure and less as a conventional museum building. Dry-stone walls, passages, courtyards, terraces and shaded seating areas, structure a route that immerses visitors in the landscape and the cultivation of the muscat grape, integrating the experience into the terrain without altering it.
Speakers:
Tilemachos Andrianopoulos — Director, Tense Architecture Network
Panagiotis Tournikiotis — Professor Emeritus, NTUA · President, Hellenic Institute of Architecture
Efthymios Bakogiannis — Secretary General for Spatial Planning & Urban Environment, Ministry of the Environment and Energy · Assistant Professor, NTUA
The “Dikastiria” metro station is one of the 15 stations of the new landmark Line 4 and one of seven new stations created in the center of Athens through an open public architectural competition.
The city invests in architecture not only to build mobility infrastructures, but also to establish new landmarks, meeting points, and exemplary public spaces within its neighborhoods.
