Protocols of Athens

Protocols of Athens

Publication accompanying the exhibition «Aristide Antonas. Protocols of Athens». Texts by Keller Easterling and Evelyn Steiner. Published by the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, 2015.

via www.sam-basel.org

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Athens Trench Project

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Urban Hall

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We can invent an abstract understanding of ruins, and I do not mean here only the ancient ones. In a sense, the European adoration of the ruin is linked to the analogous construction of fake ones. Follies or pseudo-ruins are not just the…

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Open Air Office

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The city centre of Athens is an idiosyncratic void. Many older inhabitants abandoned it years ago. Some of the newcomers were dislocated during recent police operations. The city is changing constantly: there are many homeless people on…

Athens, urban protocols
There is something immediate when we perform in the frame of a protocol. But our actions could prepare for a different order of living. They could transform an experience of radical privation, a passivity, into a conscious affirmation.…

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Athens Terrace Works

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Weak Monu mental Square

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Debris Urban Floor

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Trans formable Vertical Village

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Dear Simon Taylor,

Thank you for bringing Albert-László Barabási in the discourse. I am very interested in your observations. My idea about your question will be that the ruling concept in this distinction between…

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Roof Play ground

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... widmet sich die Schau dem Werk des griechischen Architekten und Philosophen Aristide Antonas (*1963, Athen). Im Mittelpunkt stehen seine primär spekulativen Projekte und Gedankenexpe-rimente, deren primäres Ziel die Aufwertung…

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Agglo meration of Empty Shops

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Die Frühjahrsausstellung im vai widmet sich dem Werk des griechischen Architekten und Philosophen Aristide Antonas (*1963, Athen). Im Mittelpunkt stehen seine spekulativen Projekte und Gedankenexperimente, zusammengefasst unter dem Titel…

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Why could a city like Athens needs Urban Protocols in order to enter a phase of a new function? Scarcity made obvious that alternative initiatives were more welcomed than any bureaucratically conceived systematic action in the city.…

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