Aristotheke Eutectonics©
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In 2002, culminating a series of freelance associations with architectural firms in a city of pre-Olympic fervor – Athens, Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos, an educator, writer and architect formally schooled in Athens and New Haven – yet a persona actually negating all such titles or incidents – founded Aristotheke Eutectonics© a design initiative prioritizing experimentation at the urban and building scales in parallel to normative architectural practice. Aristotelis built this pursuit upon his strong design experience with key Manhattan firms in major projects of international scope and has led since a series of multidisciplinary design teams participating in more than eighteen urban design competitions with notable distinctions – even if, expectedly, the most provocative proposals go typically unrecognized by juries and committees. Aristotheke has developed more than thirty _thecae experimental architectural projects of single-building scale and this agenda remains currently a priority of the team. The office has worked on commissions of residential, commercial and urban scope, or even further, on diverse programmatic challenges such as logistics, single-family houses, bridges, administrative and educational facilities, adaptive re-use of landmarked structures, renovations and retail spaces. The practice, with its premises currently located at the foot of Lycabettus hill – following a series of international relocation ventures – has inevitably shifted a significant segment of its attention to the incredible intellectual heritage of Hellenism and strives therefore to unfold tectonics as a series of drafts for an autobiography of the future. Our works are made possible with the crucial contribution, support, passion and efforts of the friends, associates, collaborators, contributors, interns and assistants to all individual pursuits [a limited list of names is included in the Hellenic text]. While surely, publicity does not stand for us as a measure of accomplishment, Aristotheke works have been presented in multiple architectural exhibitions such as the ΣΑΝΑ in 2009 and 2006 in Patras, the EIA Young Architects’ Biennale of 2007 and 2012 in Athens, the MIPIM congress of 2008 in Cannes, the Europan 9 Forum of 2008 in Santiago De Compostella, the traveling ‘Public Space’ Exhibition of 2011, while our Thecae are frequently featured in catalogues, annual project reviews and design periodicals, such as Domés, Architektones, the Russian edition of Home Décor and on multiple online architectural magazines. We insist though on keeping some of our aristae cases secret for now, ultimately destined to be inhabited in a metaphysical realm; Wouldn’t you adore immersing yourself into such a tangible or intangible metatheque?
 
Αριστοθήκη Ευτεκτονικής©
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Το γραφείο Αριστοθήκη Ευτεκτονικής ιδρύθηκε το 2002 από τον αρχιτέκτονα Αριστοτέλη Δημητρακόπουλο και έκτοτε σχαρώνει δοκίμια για τις αυτοβιογραφίες ενός μέλλοντoς, σχεδιάζοντας αδιάκοπα και αδιάληπτα. Το αρχιτεκτονικό γραφείο, παράλληλα με τις κανονικές αναθέσεις έργων στις οποίες εργάζεται με έντονο πάθος και εκδηλώνοντας ιδιαίτερη προσέγγιση, έχει δώσει παράλληλη έμφαση εξ’ αρχής στο πειραματικό σχεδιαστικό έργο συμμετέχοντας ως το 2009 σε πληθώρα διαγωνισμών αστικής κλίμακας για έργα διαφόρων κλιμάκων, χρήσεων, προδιαγραφών και απαιτήσεων, του ιδιωτικού και του δημόσιου τομέα. Το έργο της Αριστοθήκης Ευτεκτονικής δε θα ήταν εφικτό χωρίς την πολύτιμη συνδρομή φίλων, συναδέλφων, υποστηρικτών, συνεργατών, μαθητευόμενων και βοηθών που έδειξαν πίστη και αφοσίωση στα επιμέρους εγχειρήματα. Κάποια από τα ονόματα: Lucas Correa Sevilla, Ευαγγελία Ρακοπούλου, Γιώργος Δημητρακόπουλος, Σπύρος Φίλης, Σοφία Τσάφου, Έλλη Ντρούκα, Άντζελα Γιαννακοπούλου, Βάσω Γκιόκα, Φρόσω Βέττα, Κώστας Τσιμίκος, Ανθή Μαλακή, Μαρία Σωτηρίου, Pilar Burgos Gonzales , Μυρσίνη Γλέζου, Jose Antonio Medina, Awngawara Nawacharoen, Peter Glasson, Petra Kanatova, Joe O’Toole, Ricardo Lopez Luna, Δανάη Λαζαρίδη, Πέτρος Βαγενάς, Γιώργος Τρικούζας, Μαρία Ανθομελίδου, Ελένη Παπαδημητρίου, Μαρίνα Σκέντου, Κώστας Γρηγοριάδης, Χριστιάνα Καραγιώργη, Τηλέμαχος Τηλεμάχου, Γιώργος Καλλής, Άννα Γκίζα, Θεμιστοκλής Χαραλαμπίδης, Θάνος Αθανασόπουλος, Νίκος Μπαραμπούτης, Κατερίνα Λαζαρίδη, Κατερίνα Βαγενά, Βίνα Τσούτσουρα.
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