AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE – EXPLORING MEANS OF EXPRESSION

The film follows eight groups of students during the final presentation of their projects for the fourth year course on history and theory, run by Associate Professor Panayotis Tournikiotis. The camera films the students as they describe their understanding of the process of synthesis that resulted in projects such as: a house for two families on Spetses island by Aris Constantinidis (1966-67), Hanselmann House by Michael Graves (1967), Turégano House by Alberto Campo Baeza (1989), Schroeder House by Gerrit Rietveld (1924-25), a single family house at Psyhiko-Athens by Zoi Samourka (1994-99), Saltzman House by Richard Meier (1967-69), Villa Planeix by Le Corbusier (1924), and, finally, Villa Dall’Ava by Rem Koolhaas (1991). A week later, a second shooting session affords us a chance for a retrospective visit to the work of the aforementioned architects through the projects presented by the students. The two interwoven narrations formulate α cinematic narrative structure at the very core of which one will find not the well-known projects themselves, but rather students expressing their thoughts on the education of the architect and the nature of architecture in a contemporary environment.