Konstantinos Ioannidis

Konstantinos Ioannidis was born in Serres in 1976. He studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Dipl. Arch. Eng. AUTh) and received a master’s in Cultural Management from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens), with an emphasis on Environmental Psychology. He holds a PhD from the School of Architecture of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (PhD Doktorgrad, KTH), in critical studies of architectural design. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the AUTh School of Architecture with a Research Committee Excellence Scholarship, researching architecture in the post-digital and neo-analogue environment.

From 2001 to 2005 he lived, studied and taught at schools of architecture in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden). In 2006 he returned to Greece for his military service. He stayed in Athens and founded the architecture practice “aaiko architects” with his wife. From 2007 to 2008 he was a contract lecturer at the School of Architecture of the University of Patras and at the corresponding school of the University of Thessaly, where he remained Lecturer in architectural and urban design until 2012. In summer 2012 he returned to Scandinavia, where he was appointed permanent Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. The practice was registered with the Norwegian register of design firms and the National Association of Norwegian Architects (NAL) and, based in Stavanger and Oslo, was renamed “aaiko arkitekter”. It takes on private projects with an emphasis on timber construction, and enters international architectural competitions. He was also appointed Norway’s national representative on the management committee of the European research programme COST Action TU1306 (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), on: Fostering knowledge about the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Public Spaces supported by strategies to improve their use and attractiveness – CyberParks. With researchers from 22 European countries, the programme explores the impact of this relationship on the social, ecological and urban dimensions of public space design using new technologies. In October 2014 he returned to Greece once again to take up the post of Assistant Professor at the AUTh School of Architecture.

His research includes participation in AUTh projects on the architecture of public space and in pan-European research networks. Examples include previous research projects on the narrative function of architecture, its emerging complex relationship with neuroscience and psychology, waterfront regeneration, and projects for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games aimed at upgrading existing settlements.

He was selected as a member of the international Board of Experts for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2014, 2016 and 2018, responsible for nominations from the Nordic countries as well as Greece and Cyprus. Organisers: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona; Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt; Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA), Helsinki; Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana; The Architecture Foundation (AF), London; La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Cité), Paris; Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), Vienna. Earlier, he was scientific collaborator and co-organiser of the 8th international summer school under the auspices of IFHP in Helsinki (Finland), on waterfront design. Since 2001 he has published his theoretical work in international scientific publications and online media, and has been invited to public debates and lectures by educational and cultural institutions in Norway, Denmark and Finland.

He has taken part in various conferences, summer schools and workshops in Europe, the Americas, Canada, Japan and South Korea. He has attended professional development programmes abroad, most importantly: the annual seminar programme for professors from selected Norwegian universities on University Pedagogy and Doctoral Supervision (Stavanger, Kristiansand); an extended inter-departmental seminar on Research Ethics for faculty of Norwegian universities who supervise doctoral theses (Stavanger); an annual programme of pedagogical seminars for university teachers leading to the relevant qualification (NyTi) in University Pedagogy (based on British standards); the seminar course in Philosophy of Science by the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (NorFa) in Riga, Latvia, on: Today’s research training – Tomorrow’s scientific quality; and doctoral/postdoctoral-level seminars on Architecture, Philosophy of Science and University Programme Management. The seminars took place in Scandinavia – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (KTH).

He was a visiting professor at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London, together with professors from 12 different schools of architecture, and in various AA educational activities. He has served on examination boards at schools of architecture and as session chair, and since 2009 he has been a reviewer and member of session committees at international conferences, most notably the international Design Research Society conferences (DRS and International Association of Societies of Design Research) held in various cities around the world. He has entered international architectural competitions and exhibitions of architectural work in Greece and Scandinavia, with entries shortlisted by national committees. He speaks English, French, Norwegian and Danish.

Scientific & Research Fields:

Architectural and Urban Design, Architectural Design through Research, Design of Open Public Spaces and Landscape, Urban Composition, Narrative Spaces, Methodologies and Design of Technologically Mediated and Interactive Environments, Architecture and Psychology, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Architectural Discourse, Cultural Management.