Krystallia Kamvasinou (Ms) PhD, MLA, DipArch

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1 Krystallia Kamvasinou (Ms) PhD, MLA, DipArch LandscapeArchitecture: Conceptual design method Notation Poetic exploration Time-based representation Perception Cross-media integration Website: 1

2 E D U C A T I O N PhD by project MLA Distinction DipArch , University of Westminster, London. Title of Thesis: Transitional landscapes. An investigation into motion perception and its implications for landscape design. Sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) 01/3495 award, the P.& E. Michelis Foundation, and the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) , Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University. Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction. Major Design Project: St Kosmas Regeneration, Olympic Marina Site, Athens. Recipient of the Frank Clark Prize (Scottish Branch of the Landscape Institute), the Clason-Harvie Bursary and the Andrew Grant Bequest (School of Landscape Architecture/Edinburgh College of Art), in acknowledgement of exceptional student work in the graduating year Sponsored by IKY , National Technical University of Athens. Degree in Architecture-Engineering. P R O F E S S I O N A L M E M B E R S H I P S Associate member (design) of the Landscape Institute UK (ALI 15552) since March 1999 Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE 69173) since November 1994 P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E Current post Competition awards Competition entries Freelance collaborator, Dermot Foley Landscape Architects, Dublin, Ireland. 2005, Luxembourg Gare (invited international competition with Urban Initiatives, London). MENTION. 2003, Lemesos Old Port Redesign, Cyprus (invited competition with Maria Hadjisoteriou, architect). MENTION. 1995, Redesign of the old quarry area Theatre Vrahon/Melina Mercouri, Athens (with Meletis Loukos Architects). FIRST PRIZE. 1994, Redesign of the Halikaki Park, Athens (with Meletis Loukos Architects). SECOND PRIZE. 2002, Ephemeral Structures for the city of Athens (Interdisciplinary collaboration with Diarmaid Lawlor, associate director/urban Initiatives, London, and Pedro Fernandes, 2

3 Assistant Architect (FT) Assistant Architect (PT) interaction designer/sadler s Wells, London). 2000, Venice Biennale The city in the third millennium: less aesthetics, more ethics (with Dimitrios Spithas, architect). 1997, Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel (with Oliver Chapman, architect, Edinburgh, and David Vila Domini, lecturer in Architecture, Aberdeen). 1997, RIBA Family House (with David Vila Domini) , N. Valis & Associates, Athens. Interior design, housing projects, landscape design , Meletis Loukos Architects, Athens. Architectural design, landscape design, interior design, competitions. 1995, Various architectural practices in Athens, temporary posts , Meletis Loukos Architects, Athens. Landscape design. Computer skills AutoCAD 2006, Autodesk VIZ 2006, QuarkXpress 6.0, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Premiere Pro & After Effects 6.0, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, Microsoft Word & PowerPoint A C A D E M I C E X P E R I E N C E Lecturer (PT) in Landscape Design Visiting Lecturer (PT) School of Architecture, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lecturing and tutoring in the BA (Hons) Architecture (stage 2) and M.Arch (stage 4 and 5). 2006, January-June, MA Urban Design, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration, University of Westminster. Sole supervisor of the dissertations of two postgraduate students and assessor of four dissertations. 2003, February-June, MA Town Planning and BA Town Planning, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration, University of Westminster. Sole supervisor of the dissertations of one undergraduate and two postgraduate students and assessor of four dissertations. 2000, February-June, Undergraduate Diploma in Urban Design, Year one, Department of Planning and Urban Design, University of Westminster. Studio teaching, individually and in a classroom setting; 3

4 participated in design critiques and individual/group tutorials; involved in the final marking of the projects. Research Invited critic Invited speaker , Researcher in the Liquid City: water, landscape and social formation in twenty-first century Mumbai project, UCL. Funded under a Landscape and Environment AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Grant. 2005, November, participation in the bid Review and analysis of value methodologies submitted to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) by the University of Westminster (runner-up). 2002, Technical assistance in Licensing Reform: a cross-cultural comparison of rights, responsibilities and regulation, a study prepared by the Central Cities Institute, University of Westminster. 2006, Oxford Brookes University, School of Architecture (forthcoming). 2006, Project X, BSc Architectural Studies (Years 2 and 3), The Bartlett, UCL (Final Crit). 2005, Unit 17 (Diploma and 4 th year), The Bartlett, UCL (Final Crit) , Project X, BSc Architectural Studies (Years 2 and 3), The Bartlett, UCL (three crits). 2003, Studio 9, Diploma Year 1 and 2, School of Architecture, University of Westminster (one crit). 2003, Studio 6, BA/BSc(Hons) Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Westminster (two crits). 2007, Spring term, School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin (forthcoming). 2006, November, Research training programme 06-07, University of Westminster 2006, June, Architecture Week, The Pines Calyx, St Margaret s Bay, Kent. 2005, March, Department of Crop Science, Horticulture and Forestry, University College Dublin. 2003, October, Across the Borders workshop, International Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Nuertingen, Germany. 2002, February, Cultural and Historical Geography Group seminar series, Department of Geography, UCL. 4

5 Conference speaker 2006, November, Terrain Vague: representations of urban politics in late 20 th Century landscapes of emptiness, indeterminacy, and occupation, AHRA Annual International Conference 2006, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (forthcoming). 2006, August/September, Terrain Vague as Urban Nature: landscapes of emptiness, indeterminacy, and occupation, RGS- IBG Annual International Conference 2006, London. 2005, November, Notation Timelines and the Aesthetics of Disappearance, AHRA Annual International Conference 2005 Models and Drawings: the Invisible Nature of Architecture, University of Nottingham. 2005, June, Reclaiming the obsolete in transitional landscapes: perception, motion, engagement, IFLA World Congress, Edinburgh. 2002, April, Constructing ambient space: the case of landscapes in transit, Constructing Place Conference, Auckland Castle, Durham. 2001, March, The poetics of the ordinary: ambiance in the moving transitional landscape, Landscapes and Politics Conference, Edinburgh. P U B L I C A T I O N S Kamvasinou, Krystallia (2006), Reclaiming the Obsolete in Transitional Landscapes: perception, motion, engagement, Journal of Landscape Architecture, Autumn 2006, pp (forthcoming). Kamvasinou, Krystallia (2005), Contemporary urban gateways and aesthetic engagement, Annals for Aesthetics, P.&E.Michelis Foundation, Athens (forthcoming) Kamvasinou, Krystallia (2004), Ambiance in Transitional Landscapes: generating design from motion, in Fetzer, E (ed), Across the Borders of, University of Nuertingen, Nuertingen, Germany, pp Kamvasinou, Krystallia (2003), The Poetics of the Ordinary: Ambiance in the Moving Transitional Landscape, in Dorrian, M, and Rose, G (eds), Deterritorializations revisioning landscapes and politics, Blackdog Publishing, London, pp Kamvasinou, Krystallia (2000), Transitional Landscape, IO, The Internet Magazine of Applied Aesthetics, April 2000, original URL: current URL: 5