Antreas Giakoumakatos

Professor of History, Critical Analysis, and Theory of Architecture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Born in Piraeus in 1955, he studied music at the National Conservatory of Athens and the State Academy "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence, as well as architecture in Florence (history with Giovanni Klaus Koenig and Ezio Godoli). He pursued postgraduate studies at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice (with Manfredo Tafuri and Giorgio Ciucci) and holds a Ph.D. in the history of architecture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After graduating in 1981, he taught architectural history at the School of Architecture of the University of Florence, eventually serving as an assistant professor. In Florence, he founded the publishing house Aletheia, which he directed for a decade, aiming to promote modern Greek literature and culture. He is a member of the Associazione Nazionale di Studi Neogreci, chaired by Mario Vitti. Since 1987, he has been an editorial consultant for the journals "Architectural Themes" and "Space + Arts Themes," as well as a contributor to the Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, the Touring Club Italiano, and the newspaper "To Vima" on architectural topics. He was the founder and for many years the coordinator of the Greek team of DOCOMOMO, a commissioner for Greece at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the director of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture. His work, both in Greece and abroad, includes curating exhibition catalogs and publishing more than 150 articles, presentations, lectures, and essays on the history and critique of architecture, as well as the book "L' architettura delle scuole e il razionalismo in Grecia" (1985). His study "Elements of Modern Greek Architecture, Patroklos Karantinos" has been published by the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece.