VIDEO / STEPHAN BUERGER AND DEMETRA KATSOTA TALK AT ESW CONFERENCE, AT ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE

Stephan Buerger and Demetra Katsota established buerger katsota architects in 2005 with offices in Ath- ens and Vienna. The practice is currently involved in a wide range of international projects, as well as aca- demic research on architecture. buerger katsota archi- tects’ work has been awarded prizes in several archi- tectural competitions, widely published in reviews and publications and exhibited internationally. ‘House A+B’ was shortlisted for the 2013 Mies van den Rohe Award European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. ‘Patras Student Studios’ has been awarded by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture in the ‘public and common use’ category [2012 Awards], while ‘Villa S’ in Vienna – AT was awarded by the Union of Greek Archi- tects in the ‘architecture beyond borders’ category [2011]. In 2012, the practice participated in the 13th Architecture Biennale of Venice with the project ‘PXATHENS’.
Today, the life expectancy of the ‘polykatoikia’ con- fronts us with the problem of the renewal of the building stock in the Greek City. The ‘re-insertion’ of a plot in the building production is nevertheless unviable, due to the fragmentation of ownerships and the significantly lower building coefficients. If the ‘polykatoikia’ responded once to the rapid popu- lation growth of the Greek city, today the existing building stock with the appropriate interventions can provide meaningful solutions. The presentation will focus upon operations buer- ger katsota architects have developed or adopted in dealing with the urban and architectural – modernist- reality as well as upon the specifics of their application through the realisation of the ‘Patras Student Studios’ project. 

VIDEO ESW CONFERENCE / BUERGER-KATSOTA ARCHITECTS

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