Dimitrios Kontaxakis

Born in Thessaloniki in 1968. He studied at the School of Architecture of the AUTh Faculty of Engineering and attended special courses at the IUAV, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and of the Thessaloniki Association of Architects (SATH) since 1995, and of the SATH board in 2003-2005. In March 2011 he received the Young Architect Award of the Panhellenic Association of Architects (SADAS PEA), with Spyros Papadimitriou and Maria-Eleni Kosmidou, for their project “Redesign of Paramana Square”, Municipality of Thermi. He taught at AUTh from 1998 to 2007 as a “Specialist Scientist – Presidential Decree 407/80”, and from 2007 to 2010 and since 2015 as a faculty member at the rank of Lecturer. His work has received distinctions and has been published in the Greek and international specialist press.

He lives and works in Thessaloniki, is married and has two children.