Hi! I’m Simon, I'm 27 years old and I graduated in 2013 from Architectural School of Athens,
which is almost 3 years ago.
I now live in London, UK, studying in Central Saint Martins and attending the
MA course Narrative Environments, which is a related to architecture course.
I do NOT live or earn any money as an architect or
doing architecture, at least in the way I was taught architecture should be practiced.
After trying unsuccessfully to do architecture in Athens during the economic crisis,
I mostly do curating, which is...which has its routes to architecture.
Curating information or curating data, either these constitute
artworks in an exhibition or pieces of an installation in a display,
creates a dialogue...creates a web by weaving links
and relationships between these elements...these objects.
Which, in its turn, creates space, in a heideggerian way where
a sculpture occupies not only the intangible, visible space that its body
and its volume occupies but the space that surrounds it as well.
Or, as Walter Benjamin said in other way...with other words, its aura.
So I orchestrate spaces between objects…
and I guess as long as spaces can be produced or be rearranged through the repositioning of objects
either in the physical or the digital environment,
architecture will always find a way to slip through this cranny
and reinvent the architectural epistemology and methodology.
In my hybrid, unidentified design field of curating,
one could claim that architecture is all these continuously variable links
between objects and people, these relationships
-as structures that could be translated into space- between objects or people that
are orchestrated by an architect or...
a curator or...
a curarchitect...
or a curartist! Whatever!
