‘Not so long ago the very notion of the eastern Mediterranean’s most famous ghost town being resurrected as a 21st-century theme park would have been unthinkable. For more than four decades there has been almost no movement among ruins of war left to rot with the passage of time. But in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, transformation is…

“Walking along the Green Line is a choice, not something that can normally happen when strolling into town.” — Anna Casaglia, 2020 View fullsize “When anyone sees the division for the first time, from whichever side of Nicosia, it makes a very strong impact. The physical shape and appearance of the two sides of the…

View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1619080454953_22065 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid { margin-right: -10px; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1619080454953_22065 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid-slide .margin-wrapper { margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; } The purpose of this workshop was to become familiar with architectural ornamentation through a variety of approaches, focusing on plaster mouldings. By studying the…

  Are we suffering from urban amnesia?   In these hard times, it seems like we’ve lost our sense of place – as if public space has become a forgotten concept, a buffer zone that we cross rarely and only out of necessity. Locked in our homes, in front of screens, living in a parallel…

Excerpt from Despotiko: A Refuge for Boats, Chapter 3 : The Tempest, p. 43- 51 | Master Thesis | Politecnico di Milano 2019   Unfortunately, Greek traditional wooden boats are no longer safe, since they are strongly related to the issue of overfishing. Not only did overfishing lead to the disappearance of marine living resources,…

View fullsize Excerpt from Despotiko: A Refuge for Boats, Chapter 3 : The Tempest, p. 37 ; and Chapter 4 : To Build a Boat, pp. 73 – 79 | Master Thesis | Politecnico di Milano 2019   Many argue that Greece would not have existed as we know it today without its people’s seamanship.…

“Where will we rest our eyes now that the distant linesare shipwrecked in the clouds”   HELEN With the first drop of rain the summer was killedDrenching the words that had given birth to starlightAll the words that had their single destination You!Where will we lay our hands now that the weather no longer cares…

“For each of us space begins and slants off from our own eye, and from there enlarges itself progressively toward infinity. Space, in the present, strikes us with greater or lesser intensity and then leaves us, visually, to be closed in our memory and to modify itself there. Of all the means of expression, photography…

This project aims to uncover traces of human presence -or absence- on rural settings and to illustrate the ways in which the built can coexist with the natural. Abandoned structures and objects seem to be out-of-place when found on a rural context, representing what has been in a fragment of time and what there is…

View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize #block-6565083e2d2b662f7169a15a .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid { margin-right: -10px; } #block-6565083e2d2b662f7169a15a .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid-slide .margin-wrapper { margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; } “Taking photographs is above all restoring a sense of wonder – like observing the world through an adolescent eye –…