Materials, construction techniques and social Identity through the centuries, from prehistory to the pre-industrial era in the Balkans and Eastern Μediterranean. The lecture series, open to public, is co-organized by the School of Αrchitecture at the Democritus University of Thrace and the ArScAn – Archéologies et Sciences de l’ Antiquité, laboratory of the University of Nanterre, Paris. Its ultimate goal is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange methodologies and expertise in architecture, archaeology, social anthropology, construction technology, materials, and study their timeless societal and cultural impact in the context of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Lecture 1:   Miryana Iordanova, Architect PhD, Bulgaria / Dep. Of Architecture, New Bulgarian University, Sofia

“The residential architecture of the place before the conquest of the Balkans by the Ottoman Empire”

 

Lecture 2:   Vasiliki Pachta, dr. Architect, Conservator, LTS. Greece / Lab. of Building Materials, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

“Technological evolution of building materials and techniques”

 

Lecture 3:   Panos Kostoulas, Architect UP | MSc ΝΤUA, Materials Science & Technology, Greece

“Boulouki” Itinerant Workshop on traditional Building Techniques. “The use of theran earth in the traditional architecture of the Santorini Archipelago and its itinerary in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the 21th Century”

 

Lecture 4:    Zeynep Eres, Assoc. Prof. Architect, PhD, Turkey / Faculty of Architecture, Architecture Department, Istanbul Technical University

“An Ethnoarchaeological approach in reading the wooden architectural remains exposed in archaeological excavations: a case study from Eastern Thrace”

Coordination and Organization:

Zoi Tsirtsoni, Research Director at CNRS UMR 7041 ArScAn, Aegean Protohistory Team Co-Director of the Franco-Hellenic Research Program at Dikili Tash, France

Katerina Ritzouli, dr. architect, historian, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Members of the organizing Team:

Damiani Karageorgiadou, PhD candidate D.U.Th., Theodora Mangana, PhD candidate D.U.Th., Alexandre Pinto, PhD Paris I.