Fani Mallouchou Tufano:
Lecturer
She studied archaeology at the Faculty of Letters of Athens University. She specialized in the restoration of monuments at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome and the Scuola di Perfezionamento per lo Studio ed il Restauro dei Monumenti of the School of Architecture of the University La Sapienza of Rome. She holds a Ph.D. from the Philosophical School of Athens University.
From 1976 to 2009 she has worked on the restoration project of the Athenian Acropolis from 2000 to 2009, as Director of the Documentation Office of the Acropolis Restoration Service in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Since 2009 she is Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), teaching Preservation history as well as Archaeological Resources Management (especially the issue of documenting, restoring/interpreting and displaying archaeological moniments and sites). She is permanent Lecturer, also, in the Interdepartemental Post-Graduate Programmes on Monument’s Protection and Management of the National Technical University of Athens and the Department of Archaeology and Art History in the Phisosophical School of Athens University.
Andreas Giacumacatos :
Lecturer
Andreas Giacumacatos was born in Athens, Greece in 1955. He studied music at the Athens Conservatory and the State Academy “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, Italy. He studied also architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and Venice, with scholarships offered by the A. Onassis Foundation (Athens) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He gained the Ph.D. at the Thessaloniki University, Greece.
He taught history of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence between 1981 and 2001. Now he is professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture in Thessaloniki, and at the Faculty of Art History and Theory in the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Dimitris Diamantopoulos:
Lecturer
Dimitris Diamantopoulos was born in 1944. He studied architecture at the Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki.
From 1965 to 1967 he collaborated with A. Tombazi on the project of the complex of «DIFROS» buildings and participated to many Greek and European awarded competitions.
Between 1971 and 1976 he worked on the project of the first buildings of the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens.
From 1973 to 1992 in collaboration with other architects he worked within the projects for the refurbishment of historic buildings and the enhancement of open public spaces.
Diamantopoulos has been the head of the team that planned the pedestrian areas around the Acropolis (D. Aeropagitou- Ap. Pavlou), from the 1998 to 2001.
In 2004 he has been awarded by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture for the Museum of the Olive in Sparta.
He has been awarded within many architectural competitions, the most important of them being the first prize for the Cultural Center of Athens in 1976.
He has been member of juries for Architectural and Urban Planning competitions.
Klimis Aslanidis:
Lecturer
Klimis Aslanidis has studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (1992-1998) and Conservation of Historic Buildings at the University of York (1999-2000). Currently he is preparing a doctorate thesis at the University of Patras, in the field of Byzantine Architecture.
As a freelance architect, mostly in cooperation with Christina Pinatsi, he has worked on several conservation projects, for ancient, medieval and post-medieval listed buildings and monuments, including churches, houses and fortifications, all over Greece. Since 2003 his is also responsible for the restoration of the auditorium of the ancient Theatre of Dionysos on the Southern slope of the Acropolis, a project of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
He has published papers, most of which are related to Byzantine and post Byzantine architecture.
Eleni I. Kanetaki:
Lecturer
dr architect engineer N.T.U.A., Spec. in Restoration of Monuments,, Univ. di Roma La Sapienza
Faculty of Architecture, National Technical University, Athens 1994.
Postgraduate studies at the Specialisation Course on Restoration of Monuments, Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza, with scholarships by the Italian State and Greek State’s Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) (1995-97).
Doctorate thesis at the Architectural School of N.T.U.Athens (1997-2003), with scholarships by N.T.U.A. and the Greek State’s Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.).
Author of “The Ottoman baths in the Greek Territory“, published by the Technical Chamber of Greeece (T.E.E.), Athens 2004, a comparative study of 60 monuments dating from the Ottoman period, that can still be traced all over Greece.
Her teaching experience include lecturing at the N.T.U.A. Faculty of Architecture (2000-2002), as well as collaborating with the Specialisation Course on the Protection of Monuments (Faculty of Architecture, N.T.U.A. Athens, 1997-2000), at the Architectural School, University of Patras (2004-2005), at the Department of Architectural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi (2009-2011), at the Department of Civil Engineering (1997-2011) and Department of Electrical Engineering (2010-2011), Technological Educational Institution of Pireus, and at the National Centre for Public Management (E.K.D.D.) in the thematic field Cultural Heritage and Cultural Management.
Presently she is working as a free lance architect in Restoration and Rehabilitation projects, while her former professional experience includes the Department of Restoration of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments of the Ministry of Culture (D.A.B.M.M., 2006-2007).
Georgios P. Antoniou:
Lecturer
Architect Engineer N.T.U.A. (1983-1988). MA in Conservation Studies (Distinction), Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York-UK (1991-1992). Electronics at TEI-Piraeus (1980-1983). Specialization on Passive Cooling UoAthens-KENE (1996). PhD candidate at the Architectural school of N.T.U.A. on Building Technology.
National Scholarship Foundation (NSF) full fellowship for undergraduate studies at the NTUA and scholar of National Trust for Greece-UK for the studies in York-UK. NSF 3year fellowship for PhD studies.
U.I.A. prize (3/1987) for Housing solutions at the 3rd world using second hand materials.
Lectures on historic buildings and their construction, on restoration projects and photogrammetry, given at the NTUA, Greece, UK and in numerous international Conferences-Symposiums.
Lecturer at the Dep of Architecture of the Univ. of Patras since 2007, at the MA course History of the City and Building, of Ionian University since 2008, and at the postgraduate course Urban Archaeology and Architecture of the Univ. of Athens, Patras and Aegean since 2009.
Runs an architectural office in Athens, since 1992.
Projects of the office apply on new buildings, open public spaces, restoration and recording of historic buildings.
Dora Galani:
Lecturer
Theodora (Dora) Galani, Architect & Urban Planner, was born in Athens (1955). She is married with George Krimizis (attorney at law) and has two children (Sofia 1984, Kostis 1987). She is a graduate of the Architectural School of NTU of Athens with postgraduate studies in Urban Planning, Regional Planning and History (Paris VIII & PARIS I-Panthéon-Sorbonne). Today, she is the President and Managing Director of the Company “Unification of Archaeological Sites and Urban Renewal S.A.” having been before (1998-2002) Project Manager of the Archaeological Walk of Athens (D. Areopagitou-Ap. Pavlou, pedestrian ways under the Acropolis Rock) and Director-Technical Director (since 2002) of the company. She has been head employee of the “Ministry of Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works”, the “Organization of the Master Plan of Athens” as well as a free lancer architect.
She has lectured to Architectural Schools of Greece, has written many articles for greek and foreign press, and has been invited to speak to “qualified” audience (for example foreign universities and representatives of local authorities). Ms. Galani has participated in congresses in Greece and abroad emphasizing on urban renewal projects and enhancement of monuments and archaeological sites and represents the Company in a large range of radio and tv programs.
A the moment Dora Galani is president and managing director of “Unification of Archaeological Sites and Urban Renewal S.A.”
Manolis Korres:
Lecturer
Manolis Korres, Athens 1948. Dr. Architect-Eng, Dr. Ph. h.c. FU Berlin, Professor NTU Athens
Acropolis Restoration Project : Erechtheum 1975, Parthenon 1977-1980, 1982-1999. Member of the Supervising Committee 2002-2011. Restoration of the Dionysos Theatre (on the Acropolis South Slope) 1980-1983. Study for the Restoration of the Gate Tower and the Donjon of the Pythion Castle (1974, 1976, 1995, 1999-2008). With Gottfried Gruben and Aenne Ohnesorg, Study of the Archtectural Restoration of the Sangri Temple (6th Century BC) on Naxos (executed by Th. Bilis and M. Magnesali, 1994-2000)
Architectural-archaeological research on Amorgos (1974-77); Naxos (1976-2000); Metropolis, Thessaly (2002-2005); Molykrion , Aitolia (2006-) Amyclae, Sparta (2006-); Pythion, Thrace (1974-2008) and other places
Member of 5 committees for the preservation of Monuments (Acropolis, Theater of Dionysos etc, Epidauros, Lindos, Apollo Epicurios Temple)
Honours: Bronze Medal, Academy of Athens (1989), Silver Medal, Academie d’ Architecture, Paris (1995), Taxiarches of Phoenix of the Greek State, Premium Alexander von Humboldt (2003)
Publications of 11 books and 100 articles.
Yiannis Theocharis:
Lecturer
Yiannis Theocharis was born in Thessaloniki, in 1976.
Education: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, A.B. History and Archaeology (1999), A.M. Byzantine Archaeology (2005, interrupted for military service from 1999 to 2001), Ph.D. Byzantine Archaeology (candidate). Employment: Archaeologist in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (appointed after the exams of 2004); Position: Curator of the Sculpture Collection, Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens.
Museological Experience: Member of the research group of the Museum of Greek Musical Instruments (Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation 2002-2004); member of the group for the exhibition “Transition. From the Ancient World to Byzantium”, to be held at the Onassis Cultural Center (New York) at the end of 2011. Excavation Experience: Rescue Excavations in Chalkidike – N. Potidaia (2005) and Veroia (2003); University Excavations in Dion (Professor Ar. Mentzos, 2001-2005), Philippi (Professor G. Gounaris, 1998-1999), Thessaloniki-Karabournaki (Professor M. Tiberios, 1997-1998).
Fellowship: Università degli Studi di Bologna (Dipartimento di Archeologia). Research scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (October-December 2007). Project: “La rapresentazione di Ecclesio in San Vitale di Ravenna: la promozione del vescovo sul campo della storia edilizia del monumento”.
Nikolas Vakalis :
Athens Program Director
Degree in Conservation from the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome 1979
Nikolas (Nikos) Vakalis a native of Athens is a restorer-conservator . He has had 30 years experience in planning and co-ordination of restoration projects in Italy and other countries such as the USA, Africa and Asia.
He has been working for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other public and private Italian organizations, as well as with international institutions including Unesco, Iccrom and the World Monuments Fund.
His areas of activity are stone artifacts, easel paintings, wall paintings and polychrome wooden sculptures.
From 1980 until 1990 he has carried out personal private practice and from 1990 to 1998 he has established and managed a restoration company, Vakalis & Soci; since 1998 he has been working mostly in the field of education.
The latter activity has taken him to work as an instructor in countries such as China, USA (University of Wisconsin, SARUP 1999-2008, John Cabot University 2009), Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Albania, and Iraq.
